Empty Vessels

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Empty Vessels is an immersive audio visual installation and performance piece. The project takes the form of three full sized cellos, locked in the metallic appendages of three bespoke robotic structures designed to support and autonomously play the cellos. Conceptually the piece is centered around an exploration of the question: is it important to have a “human touch” in art creation and performance, and why? This question unravels into several components: the parallels in human/AI learning, questions of authorship/copyright, automation and work availability/income, and modalities of expressive storytelling. Aesthetically the piece conveys the feeling that the cellos are being kept alive by the machines, like an organism on life support, or a baby in an incubator. This is mirrored abstractly in the visuals and the audio through contrast in warm, fragile, fleshy, human colors, tones and harmonies with discordant, precise, metallic and brutal ones. Oscillating slowly back and forth between the two before coming to a final high contrast section and then settling into agreement or stasis. *Supported by the SAT, Canada Council for the Arts, CALQ and remic microphones.

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