Have You Ever Been To An Ocean?
2020
MIDI controller, Ableton Live software, digital video file (color), digital sound files, speaker, projector, cotton tablecloth, table
Dimensions variable
Have You Ever Seen The Ocean? is a multimedia performance in the tradition of disc and video jockey culture using found video and audio. Envisioned as a 30-minute set in a festival or club space, I layer retro MIDI hip-hop beats and a repeating chorus of a child saying “Have you ever been to an ocean? I have never been to an ocean” with projected archival footage of icebergs, the ocean, and beach vacationers from the 1960s and 70s. The work creates a futurescape that use the emotion of nostalgia to create another world in which we experience a memory of the ocean in projected sound and image.