Plunge
Project Summary
In collaboration with my friend and colleague, Tae Parvit, we created a 15-minute multi-media installation. This project completed the third part of a series of works by Tae about displacing natural landscapes and redefining them in a gallery space. Plunge was meant to emulate landing in the plunge pool at the bottom of the waterfall, an end and a beginning.
Design
My intention for this piece was to define displacement in an audio context. I recorded improvisations with an old, detuned piano in my childhood home and connected that with stretched and combined audio from Tae’s personal videos in Thailand. The result is a stimulating, distorted, half funky, half melacholic composition that alters life in the jungle and ocean. Produced using Ableton Live, this piece was made through a series of passes until we managed to find a unique contrast between the visuals and the music.
