Tine Surel Lange is concerned with the climate crisis and her current works are saturated with the fear of environmental destruction as well as the new opportunities and life forms that might evolve from that. “Desert Creatures: The Salton Sea” is the second installment of an ongoing project exploring potential new life forms on this planet; an audiovisual extravaganza with magic realist flourishes.
Evolution is taking place. As we change and possibly destroy the fundamental of our life on this planet a new species is taking form – welcoming these changes as their fundamental for life. What we describe as environmental disasters are potential feeding grounds for the new species.
The work was created for Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival as part of a Ulysses Network project, originally with a 5th order ambisonics sound, based on recordings of my viola da gamba, creating an invasive sound world of one tone, slowly evolved with additions of octaves.
Presented:
2022 September 26 – November 28 – CCRMA WAVE – Stanford University, USA
2020 October 6 – OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival – Lugano, Switzerland
2020 March 5–7 – MOXsonic Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
2019 September 19 – Audiovisual HOA Concert, Ultima Festival, Sentralen – Oslo, Norway
Credits:
Commissioned by: Ulysses Network / Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Funded by: Det Norske Komponistfond
Art Production: Soundhunting AS
Premiere: 2019 September – Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival – Oslo, Norway
Video + 5th order Ambisonics sound, or 8 channel sound, or binaural
18:35 min
Concept: Tine Surel Lange
Composition, viola da gamba: Tine Surel Lange
Choreography, video: Tine Surel Lange
Outside eye: Mette Myhr
Filmed at: The Salton Sea (USA)
Sound recording: Tine Surel Lange
Photo: Tine Surel Lange
