{"id":4880,"date":"2017-02-06T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:25:55","slug":"queenstown-2017-edge-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"2017 Edge of the Universe – Queenstown – Southern Light Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE \u00a0 \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Festival: LUMA Southern Light Project, Queens Birthday Weekend, 2-5 June 2017
\nDigital Animation | 0:07:20:00, 25.00 fps, 1650 x 720
\nMedia: Animated projection, black fabric screen, black plastic sheeting, water, sound
\nSite: Queenstown Park, Queenstown, New Zealand
\nMusic: “Edge” \u00a92017 Mark K. Johnson<\/p>\n

In EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, projected letters of the alphabet cascade like a waterfall on a black screen held between two trees in the woods at the southern end of Queenstown Park. As the falling letters gain in intensity and momentum, they spell out selected lines from six poems by New Zealand writers, before disappearing into a shallow pool of water below. As the letters hit the water, they create a reflected cacophony of illumination. The work begins and ends with: \u201cI live at the edge of the universe like everybody else\u201d, from a poem by New Zealand poet laureate Bill Manhire. The first letter to fall is a capital N. As it slowly rotates it becomes Z, then N and Z once more, before fading away at the bottom. There were 35,000 visitors. To view the original animation and soundscape, see: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/219185985<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>The excerpts below taken from six New Zealand poems invite a larger story to unfold when placed together \u2013 a story about taking risks, learning from mistakes, making a difference, seeing the light within the darkness, and gaining wisdom over time.<\/p>\n

I live at the edge
\nof the universe,
\nlike everybody else.
\n(Bill Manhire: ‘Milky Way Bar’ in Milky Way Bar, Victoria University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n

… there\u2019s always an edge
\nhere that one must walk which is sharp
\nand precarious, requiring vigilance.
\n(Patricia Grace: Cousins, Penguin Books, 1992)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true you can\u2019t live here by chance,
\nyou have to do and be, not simply watch \u2026
\n(Lauris Edmond: ‘The Active Voice’ in Scenes from a Small City, Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1994)<\/p>\n

Blue rain from a clear sky.
\nOur world a cube of sunlight \u2013
\nbut to the south
\nthe violet admonition of thunder.
\n(Alistair Te Ariki Campbell: ‘Blue Rain’ in The Dark Lord of Savaiki: Collected Poems, Hazard Press, 2003)<\/p>\n

Then with the coming of darkness the
\nbay opened up beneath us, like a shell splashed
\nwith beads of light.
\n(Marilyn Duckworth: A Barbarous Tongue, Hutchinson, 1963)<\/p>\n

And now, as I grow in years,
\nI feel at times like an old
\nviolin played on by a master
\nhand. \u2026
\n(Patrick Lawlor: Old Wellington Days, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1959)<\/p>\n

I live at the edge
\nof the universe,
\nlike everybody else.
\n(Bill Manhire: ‘Milky Way Bar’ in Milky Way Bar, Victoria University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n

The soundscape by Mark K. Johnson<\/a> for EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE has six movements representing the atmospheres evoked by the six poems. The music is derived from the structural characteristics of lines from these New Zealand poems. The number of syllables in a word, the location of stressed syllables, the length of phrases, and the word order determine the musical notes and their durations. The upward and downward direction of the melody alternates between adjacent words, while the voices represent the lines of the poems. In this way, the poems\u2019 texts are transformed into the soundscape itself, as well as the visionscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE \u00a0 \u00a0 | \u00a0 \u00a0 2017 Festival: LUMA Southern Light Project, Queens Birthday Weekend, 2-5 June 2017 Digital Animation | 0:07:20:00, 25.00 fps, 1650 x 720 Media: Animated projection, black fabric screen, black plastic sheeting, water, sound Site: Queenstown Park, Queenstown, New Zealand Music: “Edge” \u00a92017 Mark K. Johnson In EDGE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[379],"tags":[7,420,422,423,17,421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5166,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/5166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}