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The image features a violin attached to a complex mechanical apparatus, suggesting a blend of traditional musical instruments with modern technology. The photograph is artistically altered with fragmented, angular cuts that distort and multiply parts of the violin and machinery, creating a visually dynamic and somewhat abstract representation.
The image features a violin attached to a complex mechanical apparatus, suggesting a blend of traditional musical instruments with modern technology. The photograph is artistically altered with fragmented, angular cuts that distort and multiply parts of the violin and machinery, creating a visually dynamic and somewhat abstract representation.

Vectorial Monody

Gavin Gamboa
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Vectorial Monody (2016)

Gavin Gamboa

Vectorial Monody is a multimedia work for solo viola incorporating electronic synthesis and video projection of rule-based line formations. These patterns contain numerical correspondences to the complex tones that are heard throughout the piece, and the geometrical lines, both visual and musical, form an imagined mimesis of classical Greek odes to the dead; a monody which would have been given by a single actor and which would have contained sighs, laments, and invocations of the underworld. The complex, interconnected underpinnings of reality would merge with the mysteries of the thereafter in such a performance, and so the intention to create an atmosphere of mathematical beauty and human expressivity (as it relates to the ‘voice’ of the viola) was the driving motivation behind the combination of these sororities and visualizations.

Viola
Rob Brophy

Electronics
Gavin Gamboa

Producer and Engineer
Ali Helnwein

Recorded at
AH Studio
Atwater Village, Los Angeles, California, United States
2014 May 6

View Vectorial Monody in the digital garden.

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