echo::system

actionstations

echo::system is a project conceived as a series of five, large-scale, multi-media environments constructed for both live performance and interactive installation. Each environment corresponds to a natural habitat: #1 Abyss, #2 Desert, #3 Forest, #4 Prairie and #5 Volcano.

Collectively these are known as “ActionStations“, each parallels a natural environment in our world and are developed with altered histories, timescales, and ecological protocol. This 5-part series of imagined environments is viewed both as a multi-media installation and a music/dance performance, conceived by composer/choreographer/performer Grisha Coleman. Through the research and observation of natural and urban habitats, echo::system is a performance of constructed nature that looks at integrated systems and resonant patterns in the contemporary landscape. Performers and viewers co-exist within a sensory rich, immersive environment, witnessing the story that unfolds as a way to re-examine contemporary urban life.

actionstations

actionstation 1: the abyss

The Abyss looks at the most current research at the ocean's abyssal layer. Elements, qualities and dynamic potentials of the ocean are identified while translating the behavior of the overall system into movement, sound and poetry.

actionstation 2: the desert

actionstation.2 creates a mytho-poetic rendering of real and imagined desert landscapes by combining choreographed multimedia performance with treadmills, re-engineered as interactive interfaces, in a hybrid enviroment.

actionstation 3: the forest

The Forest takes sound as the compositional starting point for imagining this installation. A forest, often a dense and noisy home to many creatures, offers an opportunity for an orchestral and architectural approach for sound design and linking narrative.