https://sarahbarone.com Sarah Rose-Barone Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:27:19 +0000 https://sarahbarone.com en https://sarahbarone.com/Pulse-Flow Mon, 22 Aug 2022 19:23:38 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Pulse-Flow Pulse Flow_2022 Kinetic Installation: LED, PIR Sensor, River Stone, Mylar, Fans Concerning the endangerment of the Colorado River (US/MX), the work asks visitors to listen closely to the current state of drying rivers and the parallelled ecological disintegration into our socio-political climates. Named after a bi-national river recovery program, Pulse Flow uses sonic river textures and caustics to create the illusion of a river room to facilitate an embodied discussion around vanishing systems, ecological, human and non-human. Using this river as a case study, the story of The Colorado opens up a discussion that borders care and neglect; life cycles and gradual death, speculating the future loss of a main artery water source, one that feeds life of the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico. Documentation: Cristo Riffo https://sarahbarone.com/Of-Formless-Formations Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:25:52 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Of-Formless-Formations Of Formless Formations_2024 Of Formless Formations is a collaborative acousmatic & dance performance that unfolds into a spatialized sound installation for visitors to explore. The three works (h2.er (harmony); If All Else; I Fall, & Impending Bloom) use water as a lens to trace the relationship between art and apathy; materiality and decay; resonance and harmony; and the aural possibilities of care in the Chthulucene (Harraway). Departing from one of the planet's most endangered rivers (Colorado, US/MX) and its industrialization, the space echoes harmonic compositions in sound and body, using field recordings of water and sonic textures to create a contemplative space for the performers and viewers to experience. In this work, the performers have been asked to channel their inner waters; using contained individual and porous collective body formations to shape their own forms. The concept of water as a form expands to the moving body through a post-human feminist and speculative realist perspective and understanding of the hydro-commons through embodied water circuitry, containment, and the resonance of its ebbing.The name of this project is a direct reference to the book Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of this World by Sandra Ruiz and Hypatia Vourlousmis (2021), as it aligns with the themes I'm exploring, such as the cross over of performance and critical aesthetics and political thought. https://sarahbarone.com/h2-er-harmony Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:26:21 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/h2-er-harmony h2.er ( harmony ) _2024 Kinetic sculpture. steel dish, wood, speaker, modified amplifier, MP3 player, 3 litres of water. 3’(D) x 8” (h). This kinetic metal sculpture acts as a subwoofer-water-vessel and illuminates the sonified data across the space. Translating the lower frequencies of river, ocean, and sonic textures that resonate in the metal. As a part of Of Formless Formations, the dish was responding to the score: Impending Bloom.  Documentation: Cristo Riffo at OBORO New Media Lab (Montréal) https://sarahbarone.com/Impending-Bloom Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:27:19 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Impending-Bloom Impending Bloom_2024 Sound Installation: Synthesizer, Megaphones, MP3, looping swells of ocean sounds.A part of an analog sound spatialization system that consists of a panning stereo and two megaphone speakers that whisper the sounds of the river and the sea, in a call to action, a beacon for us to listen for the subtlety of their existence. The megaphones are in an ebbing and flowing loop of water sounds, calling to each other from across the space. Review from MAUREEN : “Impending Bloom (2024) is a sonic provocation. Inspired by the Colorado River, it echoes the ecological ripple effects of the river flowing south, flowing from the mountain’s foothills, from the dryness in soil that feeds fire and the black char of burnt forest at the water’s edge, from the curves in natural embankments through the rigid contours of imperial water management systems. The soundscape is a deconstruction, a synthetic resemblance, a distortion, a yearning, a guide. The megaphones harken protest, or also, a trumpet or a flower. Sonic blooms opening, closing and amplifying as softly and persistently as a river current through one’s fingers. Where is your body in this? Where is the water body? The Colorado River flows across state lines and borders as a water source to millions, to kitchen taps in L.A. and casino fountains in Las Vegas, to mammals, reptiles and amphibians, to slugs feeding on algae, feeding fish. It begins in the mountains. It starts as droplets within the runoff of the snow melt collecting into a stream, into the river. It reflects individuals in collective entity, formed from individual actions that contain human complicity and consumption also. The sonic patterns beckon sensorial memories and emotional resonance from sounds converging and diverging through two channel sound streams. The soundscape presenting a resonance of cycles – water cycles, life cycles, weather cycles – and felt intricacies of what the water was, where it is going and what it may become. The sound’s persistence an indeterminable hum, unsettling the body in its alarm call. The work asks the viewer to step back and listen. How do these choreographic tones relate? What are we protesting? Where can we repair?”  -Margaret Lapp, MA, Writer, Art Historian Sarah Barone · IMPENDING BLOOM https://sarahbarone.com/If-All-Else-I-Fall Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:26:24 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/If-All-Else-I-Fall If All Else; I Fall_2024 Dance Performance. Approximately 30 minutes. 12 performers In this work, the performers have been asked to channel their inner waters; using sensorial memory as individuals to seep into the porousness of a collective body. Water as a form expands to the moving body through a post-human feminist understanding of the hydro-commons through embodied water circuitry, containment, and the resonance of its ebbing. If all else; I fall is a linguistic play on words about binary interactions and last resorts. It serves as a conceptual metaphor for the decision-making and collective apathy to our troubled waters and the systems that trouble them. Using scores and structured improvisation, each movement offers an interaction that attempts to carve the inner landscape of each individual, weathering each rigid structure into a more fluid, felt, and formless state of embodied cadence through collisions of care.Featured Artists Aybüke Özel, Antea Chintoh, Camille Courchesne-Couturier, sujet espaces temps (Giverny Welsch), Hannah Schallart, Malika Medawar-Bouchard, Michelle Shuman, Rae-Michelle Comodero, Sabina Gámez Ibarra, Sarah Germain, Thaïna Rosinvil Documentation: Cristo Riffo https://sarahbarone.com/Pulse-Flow-performace Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:22:30 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Pulse-Flow-performace Pulse Flow_2022Hybrid Installation. Performance. Concerning the endangerment of the Colorado River (US/MX), the work asks visitors to listen closely to the current state of drying rivers and the parallelled ecological disintegration into our socio-political climates. Named after a bi-national river recovery program, Pulse Flow uses sonic river textures and caustics to create the illusion of a river room to facilitate an embodied discussion around vanishing systems, ecological, human and non-human. Using this river as a case study, the story of The Colorado opens up a discussion that borders care and neglect; life cycles and gradual death, speculating the future loss of a main artery water source, one that feeds life of the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico. Documentation: Cristo Riffo https://sarahbarone.com/Minute-323-1 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:43:14 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Minute-323-1 Minute 323_2022 Spatialized Audio Installation + Kinetic Assemblage An assemblage of gleaned materials; riverside field recordings, and agricultural mylar, is arranged to recreate an immersive river room. Concerning the endangerment of the Colorado River (US), the work asks us to listen closely to its current state; as a river which once flowed freely, runs dry–no longer reaching the sea (MX). The titles PulseFlow and Minute 323 are namesakes of legal documents which are currently discussing river water negotiation between the US and Mexico, responding to the urgency of resuscitating this river, which serves as a main artery and cultural heart-beat of the region. These two works collaborate in the creation of an affective space, using sonic river textures and caustics to create the illusion of a river-room. This hybrid installation work uses choreographed objects, a kinetic assemblage and an atmospheric soundscape, to simulate the quivering flow of the river’s ghost. The work invites viewers to ponder our human influence on non-human ecological bodies; observing how colonial systems impose system/ic glitches, resulting in the disintegration of natural, atmospheric, energetic, and economic flows. The sound loop, arranged on 26 speakers, is composed atmospherically to orchestrate field recordings from a sonic road trip along the Colorado River. Beginning with rapidly melting ice at the basin of the river, La Poudre Pass (CO), the sounds move downstream, translating personal psychogeographic abstractions into textures and expanding into the atmospheric ripple effects of dams, diversions, overallocation and commodification on this water body. The sound loop, inspired by William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, plays for 3:23 minutes, and repeats itself with a gradual degradation as a way for visitors to witness its gradual loss and changes, exploring ecopoetics and the imagined parallels between atmospheric human and ecological conditions, using metaphors such as an artery, heart-beat, pulse, flow, and breath to discuss the death and rejuvenation of a water body. Rosa Barona · MINUTE323 https://sarahbarone.com/Las-Planideras-1 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:11:16 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Las-Planideras-1 Las Plañideras_2023Electroacousic Performance Las Plañideras is a performance that listens deeply to topographies of bodies; water, human, and the technological systems. In a soundscape directed by body movement, this project experiments with real-time feedback from a DIY stretch and motion sensor to distort samples of ocean waves (RAW Field Recordings), playing in forward and reverb motions (MAXMSP), embodying the ebb and flow of water states in our current climate and its fluctuating ecological changes. The performers, using subtle motions, act as mourners to water bodies disembodiment, paying particular attention to decades of water consumption that have diminished systems and ecological feedback loops drastically over time. In the background looms a mix of fixed and dynamic media with an atmospheric composition was arranged with drone, noise and reverb experimentation, paired with some elements of field recordings with the goal of exploring the harmonic structures that exist within these bodies and the interaction between fixed media and interactive/performance based soundscape. Born from our brief time at the Sonic Visions Academy (CMMAS) in Morelia (MX), this piece draws inspiration from the cultural, architectural, and natural elements of the city. Coming from a diverse background across the fine arts, computer science, electroacoustics, this was our way of sharing the heart of our journey through sound and movement. Credits:  Sarah Al Mamoun - Creative Technology & Performance Sarah Barone: Creative Direction, Choreography &Performance Las Plañideras // The Mourners from Sarah Rose-Barone on Vimeo. https://sarahbarone.com/Resonance-1 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:41:20 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/Resonance-1 Resonance_2022 Sonic assemblage: Low-frequency sounds, Transducer, mylar, LED, charcoal  An assemblage of gleaned materials; riverside field recordings, wild-fire sourced charcoal, and agricultural mylar, is arranged to recreate an immersive river room. Concerning the endangerment of the Colorado River, the work asks us to listen closely to the current state of the river. Still-flows is an analog data-visualization of a sonic road trip that begins with rapidly melting ice at the basin of the river, La Poudre Pass (CO), and moves downstream, tracing the life and future death of a main-artery river-system. Historically an artery migrating resources between the US and Mexico, the recreation of this river echoes the ebb and flow of tensions between the two nations. Interruptions by dams and drought are expressed in pulse palpitations, symbolizing the damaging ripple effects of American imperialism. An expression of the deep, radical listening it takes to converse with non-human systems, the work attempts to reflect the rigid legal and imperialist structures preventing the water from existing in sustainable ways, questioning the ulterior methods to interpret the glitching weather and social systems. https://sarahbarone.com/You-Know-Me-Better-Than-I-Do-1 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 21:48:52 +0000 Sarah Rose-Barone https://sarahbarone.com/You-Know-Me-Better-Than-I-Do-1 You know me better than I do_2021 Video Installation: single channel video, cctv security cameras, movement Reflecting on the age of surveillance that we are raised in, using layers to discuss the borders of intimacy and invasiveness. The choreography was scripted to explore questions of how actions fall into the hands of legal bodies, the nation-state; how the probing into Individual, decompartmentalizes us into layers, our lineage of expanded geographies, obedience, and the rigidity it imposes on the organic nature of the human body.