Harvestworks

Water Vision

Lucie Vítková

with

William Kurtis Chang

Luc Vitk’s participatory electroacoustic installation and performance work, Water Vision, involves people blowing through straws into water at specific points in a pre-composed score. Six microphones collect the water sounds, which are then processed and played back over six surrounding speakers. The piece moves beyond the confines of installation technology and the utilitarian nature of PA to become something more visible, participatory, and living, implying numerous possibilities for the reality of the water resource.

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Luc Vitk’s participatory electroacoustic installation and performance work, Water Vision, involves people blowing through straws into water at specific points in a pre-composed score. Six microphones collect the water sounds, which are then processed and played back over six surrounding speakers. The piece moves beyond the confines of installation technology and the utilitarian nature of PA to become something more visible, participatory, and living, implying numerous possibilities for the reality of the water resource. Luc has collaborated on this piece with programmer, musician, and biologist William Kurtis Chang.

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About the artist(s)

Lucie Vítková

Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser, and performer (accordion, hichiriki, drums, synthesizer, harmonica, voice, and dance) from the Czech Republic and New York. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in their improvisation practice, Luc works with the characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement.

In collaboration with:

William Kurtis Chang

William Kurtis Chang is a computational biologist, composer, improviser, and experimental musician native to Taipei, Taiwan, now living in New York City. He is interested in the interactions between intention and stochasticity. He performs with acoustic and electric guitars, an electric bass, and custom software.