Archeology - Barbora Kolářová
Composed by Nicholas Hubbell
Performed by Barbora Kolářová
Audio and video: Marc Webster at Blue on Blue Recording Studio
Released May, 2021
Archeology is an exploration of the past, only instead of objects, these artifacts are sound events. Just as one digs up a tool or pottery, a tomb or city, in various states of decay and transformation; these sounds are jumbled together or distorted through time, as well. The violin plays the explorer as conjuror. Coaxing the past sound from the darkness. Sometimes finding a common harmony, but often overcome with the sheer multitude of past events converging. Our explorer is never the less, determined, even excited to discover as much as possible. At times reflective, even saddened, but often ecstatic over a new discovery. And when this discovery is clear and in tact, our violin/explorer joins in for a duet!
However once a discovery is made, it just as fleetingly disappears, out of our perception.
Mirroring the archeology of sound, the video explores an archeology of the visual performance in five technologies of visual art — pen and paper, optical sensors inside modern digital cameras, moving picture technology from projectors to color TV to the first digital video, modern print technology with cyan/magenta/yellow/black separations, and film development from negative to full color.
For more works by Nicholas Hubbell, please visit https://www.nicholashubbellmusic.com
For more about Barbora Kolářová, please visit https://www.barborakolarova.com
Performed by Barbora Kolářová
Audio and video: Marc Webster at Blue on Blue Recording Studio
Released May, 2021
Archeology is an exploration of the past, only instead of objects, these artifacts are sound events. Just as one digs up a tool or pottery, a tomb or city, in various states of decay and transformation; these sounds are jumbled together or distorted through time, as well. The violin plays the explorer as conjuror. Coaxing the past sound from the darkness. Sometimes finding a common harmony, but often overcome with the sheer multitude of past events converging. Our explorer is never the less, determined, even excited to discover as much as possible. At times reflective, even saddened, but often ecstatic over a new discovery. And when this discovery is clear and in tact, our violin/explorer joins in for a duet!
However once a discovery is made, it just as fleetingly disappears, out of our perception.
Mirroring the archeology of sound, the video explores an archeology of the visual performance in five technologies of visual art — pen and paper, optical sensors inside modern digital cameras, moving picture technology from projectors to color TV to the first digital video, modern print technology with cyan/magenta/yellow/black separations, and film development from negative to full color.
For more works by Nicholas Hubbell, please visit https://www.nicholashubbellmusic.com
For more about Barbora Kolářová, please visit https://www.barborakolarova.com