Mixology - Toni Dove

A live-mix cinema event, a scratchable movie performed by Toni Dove and project software designer R. Luke DuBois: video DJs playing a movie instrument. Spectropia is a sci-fi hybrid featuring time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, following the Great Crash. Live performers orchestrate onscreen characters through a mix of film, performance, and a system of motion sensing that serves as a cinematic instrument, creating a narrative form that is part video game, part feature film, and part VJ mashing. The audience sees through characters eyes, hears their interior thoughts, and virtual characters break the wall speaking live to the audience .. anything can happen For the score to Toni Dove's Spectropia, an interactive media event set in a possible England in 2099 and in New York City in 1931 after the stock market crash, composer Sharp created two different noir sound-worlds: for the future, one of distressed computers and tortured guitars; for New York 1931, one based on an imagined meeting of the musics of Duke Ellington and Edgar Varese. The song "This Time That Place" appears in various versions heard throughout the film: as a tango, as a feedbacked guitar solo, as a swing tune, a classical piano etude and as a rock ballad sung on the Neos CD by the great Debbie Harry of Blondie. The Neos CD also included The Sirius String Quartet (Jennifer Choi & Ester Noh - violins, Ron Lawrence - viola and Tomas Ulrich - cello).