Strange Fruit - Solo Cello Performance Video
Paul Rucker performs an original composition that was used in his interactive sound installation Four Score.
Strange Fruit is a composition in which 6 different cello parts are layered. This series is a part of 50 solo cello concerts performed all over King County in Washington State sponsored by 4Culture.
Proliferation
Art can tell stories. For years I would talk about injustice by reciting numbers and statistics. When you say, “We have over 2.3 million people in prison,” it’s a large number to comprehend. Doing research at a prison issues-themed residency at the Blue Mountain Center in New York, I found some maps that I felt could help tell the story. This project shows the proliferation of the US prison system if seen from a celestial point of view. Using different colors to indicate different eras, the viewer can clearly see the astonishing growth of this system over time.
Eleven Conversations
Eleven Conversations is an interactive sound and video installation that allows the viewer to manipulate a video of eleven different cello performances by waving a hand over an infrared beam. The sensor responds to the proximity and speed of the hand. The different compositions mimic different types of conversations, discussions that involve conflict, nostalgia, sadness, and small talk. The use of a low-pass filter processing the audio in real-time creates the illusion that the performance is slowing down and speeding up as it is manipulated by the listener/viewer.
Catalyst
“Catalyst,” which was recently shown at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle, WA employs a touch screen using xy technology (x being the horizontal coordinate and y being the vertical coordinate on the touch pad): where you touch the screen determines which aspects of the video/audio are altered.
Busker
“Busker” is a performance art piece.
This is a 2 minute excerpt from a 40 minute performance near a busy intersection. During the performance not a single note is played.
Calendar
September 3–5, 2011
Sustenance: Visual Poster Design and Audio
Visual Arts Poster Design & Exclusive audio release
Bumbershoot 2011
Seattle, WA
September 7th, 5–8pm
Scratch Sound
Scratch Sound
Game Theory
Visual Art Show
Cornish College
September 7th–October 19th, 2011
Saturday, Oct 8
Fall Free for All
Screening of PROLIFERATION, 6pm at Pantages Theater
Solo Cello Performance, 7:30pm at Rialto Theatre
Fall Free for All Arts Festival
Tacoma, WA
Friday, October 14, 7–8 pm
Performance of Scratch Sound
Paul Rucker and guests
Cornish Gallery
Thu September 01