Seattle Modern Orchestra at Oxbow: An interactive sound-video installation & concert

Oxbow's artists-in-residence James Borchers and Jérémy Jolley present a performance of their developing interactive sound and video installation, I am the shadow of the image of my person. Installation runs from May 4-June 3 in Oxbow's gallery space.

Performances will be every 30 minutes:
7:00 pm – Installation alone
7:30 pm – Performance 1 with installation
8:00 pm – Installation alone
8:30 pm – Performance 2 with installation
9:00 pm – Installation alone
9:30 pm – Performance 3 with installation

Through a large-scale interactive sound and video installation, artist-composers Borchers and Jolley explore the relationship between identity and representation in the age of digital artifice. Infrared sensors, multichannel speakers, and software generate an interactive experience featuring video projections of musicians from the Seattle Modern Orchestra.

As visitors move through the space, the images and sounds stratify, disintegrate, sync, and reconstruct. Visitors can enter a small dodecahedron-shaped room to immerse themselves in an audio-video collage of those same players. Through its presentation of altering human forms playing their instruments, the piece becomes part performance and part digital play, invoking both dialogic and meditative experience, and calling into question what we know to be authentic or real.

About Seattle Modern Orchestra

Founded in 2010, Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Led by co-artistic directors Julia Tai and Jérémy Jolley, SMO commissions and premieres new works from an international lineup of composers, in addition to presenting important pieces from the contemporary repertoire that are rarely if ever heard by Seattle audiences. The ensemble "operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation" (Vanguard Seattle) curating new sounds and experiences for concert goers in the region.

SMO provides audiences with performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, and develops radio talks, lectures, and other forms of outreach in an accessible and inviting format all designed to expand the listener’s appreciation and awareness of the music of today.