Metabolizing despair, by Noah Rosa and Jules Galbraith

Catalog view is the alternative 2D representation of our 3D virtual art space. This page is friendly to assistive technologies and does not include decorative elements used in the 3D gallery.

Spaces in this world:

Statement:

Written and produced by Noah Rosa
Digital sculptures by Jules Galbraith
Cover and design by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

Ngô Tra My - Đàn Bầu
Nguyễn Hai An - Sáo Truc, Sáo Meo, Sáo Bầu, Tiêu
Ngô Thái Sơn - Đàn nhị
Vu Thi Thủy Linh - Voice and Phách
Pham Dinh Hoang - Đàn đáy
My Chin - Đàn tranh
Le Quỳnh Trang - Percussion
Noah Rosa - Field Recordings, Processing, Synthesizers, and Guitar

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

3D Environment Description:

A dark abyss, with neither sky nor ground, and uncertain dimensions. A concave disk of granite floats, supported by four carved spirals; an altar. A loose spiral of ashes sits on it, and in the centre chunks of coal and embers still smolder. Surrounding the altar in a circular arrangement are indeterminate forms of twisted metal, pale glassy film, and more masses of black coal and embers glowing hot, orange and pale yellow. If the viewer looks up, a faint inscriptive form can be made out, flat strokes of white and black that loop and curve back into themselves. Throughout the whole scene hover thousands of pale pink lotus petals, turning gently in the empty air.