Lost in Deep Time
2023, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Two-Screen Projection
2024, Two-screen Concert Scenography
Lost in Deep Time is a multi-screen digital installation featuring Andy Akiho’s piano & string quartet Prospects of a Misplaced Year. In its premiere in Sun Valley Museum of Art’s 2023 exhibition “The Color of Sound,” the 34-minute work was installed in a dedicated space with layered projections. Following an imagined narrative in the music, each of the five movements explores a different deep time terrain: a frenzied survey of the John Day Fossil Beds, a descent through strata in the Grand Canyon, lost inside Crack-in-the-Ground, flowing within the Black Magic Canyon, and emerging from the subterranean to dynamic glacial landscapes atop Mount Adams. The work was performed by 45th Parallel in their April 2024 concert of the same name along with He Who Saw the Deep.
Full 33-minute video of two of the screens in the installation
Movements:
I. The War Below | The War Below (John Day Fossil Beds, OR)
II. Matchbook Aria | Descent (Grand Canyon, AZ)
III. (K)in(e)tic (V)ar(i)atio(n)s | Labyrinth (Crack-in-the-Ground, OR)
IV. Palindromic Queue | Submerged (Black Magic Canyon, ID)
V. On The tIdeS of November | Emergence (Paisley Caves, OR & Mount Adams, WA)
Prospects of a Misplaced Year composed by Andy Akiho and performed by Jenny Q Chai and Friction Quartet for the Sun Valley installation; concert performed by
Ron Blessinger, violin
Greg Ewer, violin
Charles Noble, viola
Marilyn de Oliviera, cello
Yoko Greeney, piano
Technology by Thomas Wester and Ben Purdy, Glowbox
Additional Engineering and Programming by Matt Arnold, Holly Newlands and Danny Rosenberg
Full 33-minute video of three screens.
