Anthropocene

Anthropocene explores unity through the disjunction and unification of elements. Taking the form of a multi-media, audio-visual, interactive piece, common themes of breath, rhythm, dynamic, static, and texture are explored within audio-visual space. Intended for 5 screens and spatialized audio, the core content explores Nature, Water, Industry, and Energy as seen through field recordings. What begins as disconnected, segmented, and individualized space, becomes unified through a process of blending these thematic elements across the audio-visual space. One screen fields a prompt instructing the audience to internalize images and sounds in the space, de-reifying the content, then asks them to reflect these imagined sounds, signifying an embodied unification with the piece.  
As a cognitive meditative experience of reharmonization, these themes act as hinges between spacetime, unified, unfolded, and enforced through the breath and concentration of the audience. The performers are leading a guided meditation through their instruments, interpreting the images and sounds in real time, just like the audience.