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Soon/ Now/ Gone

by Ominous Cloud Ensemble

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Soon Now Gone I 05:06
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Soon Now Gone II 12:00
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Soon Now Gone III 07:52
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Semi-improvised performance as a part of Mural Arts and American Composer Forum's Site/Sound Festival. For this performance, three zoopraxiscope devices projected a sequence of images- each device was accompanied by a musical duo to create an overlapping, interlocking score.


SOON/ NOW/ GONE (2019) was a series of interactive installations and performances created by Rosie Langabeer and Erik Ruin, commissioned by the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, Friends of the Rail Park and the American Composer's Forum, and funded by the William Penn Foundation. We engaged with the Rail Park site’s history as a space for movement through a series of interactive installations and performances. Our point of departure was the Victorian era, where technologies such as the railroad and photography/cinema began to be used as a way to capture, collapse, and re-deploy time. In various tunnels and underpasses beneath the Viaduct section of the Rail Park, audiences were invited to activate zoopraxiscopes—a pre-cinema device developed by Eadweard Muybridge in 1879—which will project hand-drawn images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. Each zoopraxiscope was fitted with a music device that visitors can use to activate an original soundtrack composed for the installation. By turning on and off different strains of the music and triggering sound effects, they were able to create their own scores to the moving images on the tunnel wall. Thematically-linked performance programs each night featured everything from time-traveling storytellers to processional puppets to audio-visual improvisations.

More imagery/info here- www.erikruin.info/soon-now-gone

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released June 1, 2020

Julius Masri - electronics
Heru Shabaka-Ra- trumpet

Myles Donavan - viola
Veronica MJ - violin

Anais Mavïel - vocals, n'goni
Jesse Sparhawk - harp

Erik Ruin- imagery, direction
Rosie Langabeer, Adesola Ogunleye- projection assistants

recorded by Christopher Andrew Studios

Installation concept by Erik Ruin and Rosie Langabeer

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Ominous Cloud Ensemble Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

An ever-evolving, collectively-improvising ensemble for projections and music, led by visual artist Erik Ruin, lauded by the New York Times for his "spell-binding cut-paper animations." Erik manipulates ipaper-cuts and painted films on overhead projectors, merging with music that ranges from dark atmospherics to ecstatic dissonance. Includes folks from the Sun Ra Arkestra, Bardo Pond and more... ... more

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