The Seals International Debut

Sofy Yuditskaya, Meg Schedel, Sophia Sun, Ria Rajan, and Susie Green

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

Our program begins before it begins with the amalgamation & transmutation of assets offered up by the S.E.A.L. We five, through shared words, golden dice & a prism of frequency, invoke one another to activate a portal of boxes within boxes. We are observed & connected across lay/latency lines, stitching together a tapestry of sight & sound...and for 35 minutes life is less lonely for these ghosts in the machine. We create an experience that transcends the academic contexts in which we are trained with a more punk aesthetic with a real beat. The performance swerves between the avant-garde and a Bond-theme song for a movie set in the ocean of the future. To increase our telepresence we each have an identical golden rotten luck die that we roll to determine playing our identical custom made theremins and performance techniques including barks, tonal honks, grunts, growls, roars, moans, and pup contact calls. Our improvisation is asynchronous; we’re in different timezones with zoom lags, no single stream of the performance was the same for any viewer or performer, beautifully isolated experiences in this interconnected world. We’ll never know exactly what anyone experiences each in their own Covid bubbles.

Citation

Sofy Yuditskaya, Meg Schedel, Sophia Sun, Ria Rajan, and Susie Green. 2021. The Seals International Debut. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.e340d105 [PDF]

BibTeX Entry

@inproceedings{nime2021_music_11,
 abstract = {Our program begins before it begins with the amalgamation & transmutation of assets offered up by the S.E.A.L. We five, through shared words, golden dice & a prism of  frequency, invoke one another to activate a portal of boxes within boxes. We are observed & connected across lay/latency lines, stitching together a tapestry of sight & sound...and for 35 minutes life is less lonely for these ghosts in the machine. We create an experience that transcends the academic contexts in which we are trained with a more punk aesthetic with a real beat. The performance swerves between the avant-garde and a Bond-theme song for a movie set in the ocean of the future. To increase our telepresence we each have an identical golden rotten luck die that we roll to determine playing our identical custom made theremins and performance techniques including barks, tonal honks, grunts, growls, roars, moans, and pup contact calls. Our improvisation is asynchronous; we’re in different timezones with zoom lags, no single stream of the performance was the same for any viewer or performer, beautifully isolated experiences in this interconnected world. We’ll never know exactly what anyone experiences each in their own Covid bubbles.},
 address = {Shanghai, China},
 articleno = {11},
 author = {Sofy Yuditskaya and Meg Schedel and Sophia Sun and Ria Rajan and Susie Green},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.e340d105},
 editor = {Eric Parren and Wei Chen},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {June},
 title = {The Seals International Debut},
 track = {Music},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.e340d105},
 year = {2021}
}