Anger
for computer, musicians, video and sculpture

Anger is a collaborative effort to depict the contradictory human condition through music, video and dance. The music, composed by Randy Gibson, runs a fine line between control and chaos. It is performed live on piano, guitar, and voice as a long form hyper-structured improvisation that moves through tonal areas that run the gamut from simple open chords to extremely dense sonic environments, and everything in between. The music is restructured live by a computer that samples the sounds they create and feeds them back to them in new combinations, all with complete randomness on multiple speakers.

Accompanying this soundscape is a visual landscape of film and filmed dance created by Ana Baer-Carrillo, text by Oscar Henriquez, and sculpture by Alicia Wargo. The visual elements are extensions of the ideas presented in the music. The chaos and randomness are depicted in the film through various experimental editing techniques. The majority of surfaces in the space are covered in large form video lending a surreal saturated environment to the performance installation.

Anger received its world premiere on January 25, 2007 at 20 Greene in SoHo, NYC performed by Randy Gibson, Mike Rugnetta and Laine Rettmer. Future performances of this work take place under the title Doleo Æternus to reflect the evolution of this work.

Realizations

January 25, 2007
World Premiere
Anger, 20 Greene, New York City