September 19th, 2009 - Warsaw
Errai premiered at the 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music WARSAW AUTUMN.
"Errai" is an audiovisual immersive work by Ewa Trębacz, created in collaboration with Josiah Boothby (French horn), Anna Niedźwiedź (soprano) and Robert Sowa (lighting animation). Stereoscopic animation and Ambisonic soundtrack were realized by Ewa Trębacz at DXARTS, University of Washington, Seattle.
The work is based on encounters of spaces and encounters of artistic personalities, where the entire physical and perceptual space, including the audience, is considered the resonance box of a single instrument. Selected immersive technologies are combined together in an attempt to challenge our perception of the real and the imaginary.
Spaces compete. While the sound fills the entire physical space, and even extends it, the visual layers focus the visual perception at certain moments, events, and selected parts of the time-space. Spaces overlap. Sound and imagery compete for audience attention demanding at times an extreme focus and willingness to stretch the borders of perception.
This engagement is supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.