FUTURIST LOVE SONG
Futurist Love Song, 2020, Installation View
Futurist Love Song is an interactive installation created in response to the impact of colonization in the Philippines that manifests through the adoption of western rituals and expressions (specifically weddings and receptions). The influence of western capitalist culture, has subsequently impacted cultural expressions and behaviors within the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora. This research creation project was an opportunity to explore pre- colonial cultural expression and propose futurist ideas that center intergenerational gathering, celebration and collective diasporic expression.
Cybernetic Orchestra Performance 24-4-23
Networked Imagination Laboratory (N.I.L. )
Cybernetic Orchestra improvisation from the final concert of the Winter 2023 semester. The performance features samples (provided by Carmela Laganse) recorded from a traditional Kulingtang set and cast bronze gongs referencing precolonial instruments (Kulingtang, Gaddang) from the Philippines, and originally produced as part of the project Futurist Love Song.
Participating Orchestra Members: Logan Delaney, Carmela Laganse, Nadia Lofaro, Jordan McClean, David Ogborn, Stephen Surlin, Serena Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCDAQyu9Mw&ab_channel=NIL_McMaster
Futurist Love Song: process video, 1:01 mins
Futurist Love Song: sound samples, 59 sec with Arturo Jimenez
