WINTERSCENARIO
Winterscenario is a live audio-visual collaboration between VJ/filmmaker Rachel Brown and Continuum Sax is inspired by Jacob TV’s Postnuclear Winterscenario No.10 – a bleakly beautiful sonic portrait of a hypothetical reality. Continuum splays the atmosphere with chords while Brown uses Ms Pinky software to create a parallel universe of images reflecting suspended life and the cold beauty that winter delivers: seasonal or not. Music by Mark Anthony Turnage, Christian Lauba, Elena Firsova and Tony Gorman continue the theme of Winterscenario, reflecting landscape, memory, distance and light.
Program:
Christian Lauba - Etude pour Saxophone Savane
Jacob TV - Postnuclear Winterscenario No.10
Mark Anthony Turnage - Memorial
Elena Firsova - Far Away
Mark Anthony Turnage - Trier
Tony Gorman - Lambent
Duration:
35 minutes
Personnel:
Continuum Sax
Video Artist - Rachael Brown
Stage Requirements:
Six Music Stands with sconce lights.
Video projector and screen.
Premier: 31 October, 2009 for New Music Network Concert Series
Review on Resonate by Phil Vendy
Associate Artist Biography:
Rachael Brown – Video Artist
Rachael Brown graduated with a master’s degree in Visual Arts from the Sydney College of the Arts in Sydney in 2005. She majored in video in the electronic and temporal arts department. Drawn to performance and dance in film she set about creating a series of short experimental dance films. In 2005 her master’s video, Corpus, toured with The Commonwealth Film Festival’s short moves programme over Europe and premiered in Buenos Aires at the Central Cultural Ricardo Roja’s.
After graduating Rachael began a series of collaborations with Musicians and dancers creating video works that could be projected and manipulated during live performances (vj’ing). In November 2006 she flew to Adelaide with Sydney Band Coda to create visuals for their show as part of the annual Feast Festival.
In 2007 she worked with Sydney Dance Company teacher Rebecca Devine to create a series of videos to accompany the album launch of Sydney jazz trio Informal Troupe's at The Last Bastion of Civilization (Sydney, Surry hills). She also created a music video for Sydney musician Miss Little (2007).
In 2008 she created visuals for a show at PACT theatre for performer Ashley Dyer who received an Australia Council ‘Spark’ mentorship grant. Over the course of that year she also worked with Classical Saxophone and base Clarinet player Margery Smith. Their most noted performance together that year was at the Peggy Glanville Hicks address at the Mint. She also created a video work for classical Flautist Christine Draeger. For this work she collaborated with Dirty Feet dancer Sarah Fiddaman and independent choreographer Daniel Louie. The short video work accompanied Christine Draegars live performance Concerto for Flute.
In 2009 Rachael Brown has begun working again with Ashley Dyer on a performance for the Victorian Kick Start grant which will involve numerous projection screens. She is also working again with Dirty Feet dance group adapting a piece choreographed by Eva Fernandez into a dance film as well as working on visuals commissioned by Saxophone quartet Continuum Sax.
To see examples of her work got to: www.myspace.com/missbrownvj