{"id":5357,"date":"2024-07-20T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T00:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2025-01-15T19:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T06:14:01","slug":"2024-unite-to-light-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"2024 Unite to Light the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unite to Light the Night  |  2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Festival: Unite to Light the Night, 18-19 October 2024 (https:\/\/www.unitetolight.org)
\nDigital Animation | 0:07:38:00, 25.00 fps, 1920 x 1440
\nMedia: Sound, animated projection, black screen
\nSite: 631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
\nMusic: “Edge” \u00a92017 Mark K. Johnson<\/p>\n

The non-profit organisation Unite to Light is dedicated to providing low-cost solar light and power to those without electricity across the globe, to help students study at night, equip midwives with the tools they need to save lives, offer help and hope to those suffering from natural disasters, and provide light and power to those experiencing homelessness. The digital animation “Unite to Light the Night_EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE” relates to the mission of Unite to Light by enabling a poem to appear out of the darkness. In relation to EDUCATION and LIGHT LIBRARIES, \u2018Edge of the Universe\u2019 is composed solely of projected letters of the alphabet, moving in the darkness, which form words out of light. In relation to HOMELESSNESS and REFUGEES, \u2018Edge of the Universe\u2019 is a reminder that we are all one. It celebrates global diversity: \u201cI live on the edge of the universe like everybody else. There\u2019s always an edge here…\u201d It is a call to action as well as participation: \u201cYou can\u2019t live here by chance, you have to do and be, not simply watch.\u201d In relation to the theme of LIGHT, letters of the alphabet appear as the sole source of light in the darkness. A poem appears out of the light, about all of us coming together as one. The metaphor of LIGHT is used to provide a vision of HOPE: \u201cWith the coming of darkness, the bay opened up… splashed with beads of light.\u201d<\/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  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":"

Unite to Light the Night  |  2024 Festival: Unite to Light the Night, 18-19 October 2024 (https:\/\/www.unitetolight.org) Digital Animation | 0:07:38:00, 25.00 fps, 1920 x 1440 Media: Sound, animated projection, black screen Site: 631 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Music: “Edge” \u00a92017 Mark K. Johnson The non-profit organisation Unite to Light is dedicated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[379],"tags":[7,420,422,17,421,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.danielkbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}