From the Waters

Composed by Anne Hege

Performed by Sideband

Audio by Andres Villalta

Video by Harrison Owen and Stephen Taylor

Video editing by Stephen Taylor

Lighting by Christopher Gorzelnik

Recorded June 2012

Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, University

There is something inherently magical about the laptop orchestra. It has seemingly endless potential, and I imagine if anything were to bring a spirit back, this meshing of machine, man, woman, and sound would be it. For those of us who grew up thinking that a time machine was a beautiful DeLorean, or a space-like pod could merge man and fly, the hemispherical speaker of the laptop orchestra and the slim lines of the tether controller convince me that this is the vehicle for speaking with the beyond. My thanks to Maya Deren for her inspiring book Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti and Rebecca Fiebrink for her fabulous application "the Wekinator.”