Exhibition of sound/light in collaboration with Momo at Museo TAM

SCULPTURE was written by Sean Mahan under the band name “Acceptera” for Museo TAM to accompany MOMO’s installation “Dapple” therein.Comprised of two projectors, two looping videos, and a sculpture assemblage, Dapple overlaps separate colors and shapes to generate unplanned results across a variety of surfaces.

For musical accompaniment, Sean Mahan composed a looping electronic score with overlapping and randomized warm analog tones, to function in much the same way as the projections. The result is meant to be an audio visual contrast of fuzzy disorder and built environments, quiet emptiness and layered harmonies, adding up to a unique contemplative space.

Each video animation is a recording of plant shadows. This soft type of shadowing is called dappled light, the sort one would see on sidewalks passing under trees on a sunny day. It’s very organic, caused by the plant forms spilling where they may, and the light spilling around the forms unfocusing their hard edges. This type of white light is then digitally colored as a shifting spectrum. Two monitors are displaying these single or separated video channels. When the animations overlap, the color mixes according to additive color theory, which tends to produce harmonious combinations of colors. So too, the fuzzy outlines combine to make fleeting new shapes. Projecting from two different locations and onto varying surfaces invites shadows and uneven mixing.