Dimensions in Sound
Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra performance with guest artist Larnell Lewis, Broadway Theatre June 17, 2022
Description
ButtonIn consultation with me about synesthesia-specific responses, music composer Paul Suchan created the music score, which was then recorded independently using new technology, mixed, and assembled digitally. Once I received the music, I gathered open-source video footage to capture the floating, circling, and fluid shapes that resembled the visual sounds. Exploring an underwater theme, I investigated the shapes and movements of deep-sea divers and sea creatures (otters, seals, fish, and water snakes). A rotoscope method was used to develop thousands of drawings transcribed from video footage of the animals.
As part of the Dimensions in Sound project, the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra performed in front of a live audience in June 2022 at the Broadway Theatre (Saskatoon, Canada). Above the Deluge received five awards and was shown for one year at twenty-three film festivals. The festival circuit and live performance made it possible for audiences to learn more about synesthesia and contemplate their own experiences of music.
Released as part of their 2024 studio album CloudBurst, music from Silas Friesen and Paul Suchan can be accessed here:
https://suchanfriesen.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-burst
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Team
ButtonAllyson Glenn (Director, Animation, & Video Editing)
Paul Suchan & Silas Friesen (Music Compositions)
Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO) (Music Performance)
Shelby Lund (Animation)
Lucy Zhou (Animation)
John Ogresko (Assisted with Video Editing)
Dean McNeill (Director SJO)
Dean McNeill, David Hannah, Allyson Glenn (Funding Application 2021)
Description
ButtonIn the Fray explores early film making mediums and digital technology. With Alice and the rabbit, the viewer is lured down a hole and into a tunnel where they experience series of analogue and digital abstractions. Like the phrase ‘internet rabbit hole’ where infinite search engine paths lead to disorientation, the title phrase “In the fray” can also suggest a struggle, a deconstruction and re-arrangement of form. This idea is captured by transitions between scenes where geometrical shapes morph and change. Like the title and themes in Carroll’s iconic story Alice in Wonderland, what and who emerges from the hole is inevitably different and forever changed. In the Fray was released in early December 2021 and is now a semi-finalist for the Niagara Falls International Short Festival (USA), and has made official selection for the New York Movie Awards, Hollywood Gold Awards, and Independent Shorts Awards (USA).
As part of the Dimensions in Sound project, it was performed by the Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra in front of a live audience June 2022 at the Broadway Theatre (Saskatoon, Canada). In the Fray received two awards and for one year was shown eleven festivals. The festival circuit and live performance made it possible for audiences to learn more about synesthesia and contemplate their own experiences of music. The film was also presented at twenty film festivals in 2021-2022, and received x awards. Both the festivals and live performance gave audiences to learn more about synesthesia and contemplate their own experiences of music.
Released as part of their 2024 studio album CloudBurst, music from Silas Friesen and Paul Suchan can be accessed here:
https://suchanfriesen.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-burst
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
Team
ButtonAllyson Glenn (Director, Animation, & Video Editing)
Paul Suchan & Silas Friesen (Music Compositions)
Saskatoon Jazz Orchestra (SJO) (Music Performance)
Shelby Lund (Animation)
Lucy Zhou (Animation)
Nicole Leroy (Animation)
John Ogresko (Assisted with Video Editing)
Dean McNeill (Director SJO)
Dean McNeill, David Hannah, Allyson Glenn (Funding Application 2021)