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A Year in Dark Shades

by Vincent Caers

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1.
Winter 12:25
2.
Spring 14:00
3.
Summer 10:08
4.
Autumn 19:31
5.
Winter again 07:13

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A Year In Dark Shades is an audiovisual live-performance exploring the boundaries between sonic and visual material. The work resonates with doubtfulness and resolution, reflecting the maelstrom of inner thought. Sound and image intertwine order and disorder. It’s a continuous attempt to balance both, but it graciously fails, and in doing so it creates an overwhelming audiovisual experience. It’s an invitation for the audience to wander into chaos as an order yet undeciphered.

The seasons in the suite represent an exploration in spatial audio techniques: Spring has been created while working with wavefield synthesis in collaboration with the Dutch sound lab Game Of Life, Summer and Autumn are created in the quadraphonic atelier during a residency at BAC Art Lab and Winter was created during a residency in the ambisonics studio at the Institute for Computer music and Sound Technology in Zurich. The visual aspect uses the different parameters of the music and joins them in a singular generative abstract image as an idiosyncratic visual response to the interpretation of the composition. It aims at creating an experience which oscillates between a clear synergy and a strong contrast in picture and sound.

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released October 4, 2022

All tracks composed, performed, produced & mixed by Vincent Caers at BAC Art Lab, Leuven and ICST, Zürich
Mastering by Jelle Tassyns at Arco-music
Visual performance & design by Klaas Verpoest

This album is made with the support of LUCA School of Arts as part of the PhD research on Umbraphonics. Special thanks goes to Johannes Schütt, Tobias Gerber and the team at ICST, The Game of Life and BAC Art Lab in Leuven.

© 2022 Vincent Caers. All rights reserved. Printed in EU.

www.vincentcaers.be - www.umbraphonics.com - www.klaasverpoest.com

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Vincent Caers Leuven, Belgium

The sonic world of Vincent would be most aptly described as a unique universe mixing dense electronics with subtile acoustic sounds. His approach begins with a critical perspective on the musical score. Both conventional instrumental interpretations and radical electro-acoustic transmediations lead to surprising and unstable sonic environments balancing between transparency and obscurity. ... more

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