STARS
Created by composer Warwick Blair
Projections by astronomer/video artist Paul Moss
Performance by Indian vocalist Arpita Chanda
A 24 hour performance from 10am June 4 until 10am June 5
Galatos – 17 Galatos St, Auckland (off Karangahape Rd). Tel (09) 303
1928.
Entry by koha (donation)
“Warwick Blair’s STARS is simply the most beautiful way to spend your
time.”
- Radio One (Dunedin)
“If Stockhausen had been a Zen Buddhist he could have been Warwick
Blair”
– Sunday Star Times
Journey through space and time in this remarkable 24-hour work from
acclaimed composer Warwick Blair. Astronomy meets Indian gandaharva
music and electronica in STARS, a multimedia installation that
combines original live and recorded music with a stunning six screen
video projection of the heavens. STARS is the result of Blair’s
collaboration with video artist and astronomer Paul Moss, and Indian
vocalist Arpita Chanda, and will be performed at Galatos (Auckland)
on June 4 and 5, 2009 - the International Year of Astronomy.
Paul Moss’ pristine video skyscapes will be projected onto six
screens on the walls, ceiling and floor of Galatos, creating an
immersive, ambient dream-like environment. Audience members are
encouraged to come and go throughout the 24-hour performance period
(from 10am June 4 until 10am June 5) and experience different parts
of the cycle. Blair’s recorded composition plays continuously for 24
hours, and is enhanced by live performances from Arpita Chanda who
sings for a proscribed period every three hours.
These three-hour sections – known as praharas in the gandharva
tradition - have different musical qualities that reflect their
specific period of day or night. The video projections, which took
Moss over a year to create, show recording of sky at same time of
day. Blair’s multimedia approach extends the traditional Indian idea
that listening to gandharva music enhances harmony and wellbeing by
tapping into the rhythms of the natural world.
In creating STARS, Blair, whose work typically blends contemporary
classic music with the elements of experimental electronic pop
culture, was inspired by the concept of anoraniyan mahatomahiyan, and
Polish poet Leopold Staff’s work Evening, which includes lines like
‘I lie on a boat in the evening stillness/Stars above me, stars below
me and stars within me.’
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