Halcyon Arts Lab / Washington, DC

First Iteration // Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington, DC

Questions:

What is access for you?
What is care for you?
What is control for you?
What is weakness for you?
What is strength for you?
What is cure for you?
What is interdependence for you?
What is assumption for you?

*with additional funding from Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The Peace Studio, and Americans for the Arts

Content Created:

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is access for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is care for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is control for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is weakness for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is strength for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is cure for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is interdependence for you?”

Video description: Video featuring white text upon a black background with musical accompaniment, with answers to the question of “What is assumption for you?”

Access

Sound description: A bed of clustery organ drones, gradually unfolding and changing. Near the end, a high repeated cluster of pitches perpetually repeats and drives towards a propulsion for a shift in perspective on what access can and should be

Care

Sound description: Oscillating high organ notes begin, resembling a fast medical monitor. A female voice quickly joins with a repeated, ascending melodic phrase. This gradually breaks down and joins the organ pulses, adding dissonance and tension. Midway through lower organ chords enter and liberate the track to less tension.

Control

Sound description: Strong repetition of a low, bass drum-like club beat. High, tick-tock like pulses join the club beat, and near the end all becomes more and more distorted, essentially losing control.

Weakness

Sound description: High organ drone begins track, with singing female voice gradually entering, meandering throughout and searching for grounding.

Strength

Sound description: Distorted, pulsing vocal humming oscillate between consonance and dissonance, almost like a muted and covered sound. Near the end increases in intensity with added delays and distortion, with a high vocal line overtaking in power and context.

Cure

Sound description: Fantastical, arpeggiated high organ figure begins the track, followed by entrance of a low, distorted and forceful bass organ line. Near the very end a high vocal cluster enters, driving the track to the end.

Interdependence

Sound description: High repeated organ arpeggios begin with a low fan noise and high vocal clusters oscillating beneath, setting up a monotonous yet possible feeling. Midway through a low vocal line enters, grounding the material.