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A new Media Arts Video Co-production, MIASMA, Spectacles of Fantasy, Human Voice/Computer Vox. Directed by Allan Harding MacKay and Myra Davies, with soundtrack by Gudrun Gut, Good Studios, Berlin.
Dainty ballerina, bloody brides, valkyries and suicides; the push and pull of desire radiates from this poetic collage of women in masquerade. MIASMA, Spectacles of Fantasy (Length. 18:35) marks and documents ten years of performances by MIASMA, a theatre and digital media collaboration by Myra Davies (Canada) and Gudrun Gut (Germany).
Award winning Canadian videographer and visual artist Allan Harding MacKay is known for his evocative portraiture and sensual handling of the female image. Here he uses documentary Miasma footage to compose a lush dream stream of women engaged in exploration of feminine identities, archetypes, and desires ranging from self-sacrifice to murder.
The soundtrack by German Electronica artist Gudrun Gut features a strong beat and the satiric wit for which MIASMA is known.
Miasma 3 (Audio + Video) (2002 Indigo Moabit 014)
Miasma 3 the CD a limited edition release from moabit musik, berlin
This new MIASMA CD, containing a Quick Time version of the 17 minute documentary video, "Miasma, Spectacles of Fantasy" plus four new audio tracks, is available by on-line order only - in Europe through monika enterprises at www.m-enterprise.de/shop -and in the USA through Harmony Ridge Music at www.hrmusic.com
The video, MIASMA, Spectacles of Fantasy, (17:35 min.), marks MIASMA's tenth anniversary. Directed by Allan Harding MacKay and Myra Davies, with soundtrack by Gudrun Gut, Good Studios, Berlin, and produced at The Banff Centre in Canada, this video documents innovative live performance by this theatrical and digital media collaboration by Myra Davies (Canada) and Gudrun Gut (Germany).
Dainty ballerina, bloody brides, valkyries and suicides -- the push and
pull of desire radiates from this poetic collage of women in
masquerade. Award winning Canadian videographer, Allan Harding
MacKay uses documentary MIASMA footage to compose a lush
dream stream of women engaged in exploration of feminine
identities, archetypes, and desires ranging from self-sacrifice to
murder. The soundtrack by German Electronica artist Gudrun Gut
features a strong beat and the satiric wit for which MIASMA is known.
The four new audio works on this CD display MIASMA's current style of sophisticated satire. thought-provoking witty stories by Davies are embedded in Gut's Electronica. The track entitled 'tick' and 'Lilac' are obviously inspired by the Rocky Mountains where Davies lives, while the other two, 'Luft' and 'Beach' are stories from Berlin where MIASMA is based.
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Recorded and mixed at The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta Canada, December 1992.
Audio engineer: Amold Brookhuis
Except "Taxi" recorded at Mega Studio, Berlin, remixed by Spinout & Mellow, 1993
and "Stupid as a Rose II" recorded live at Banff
Published by Freibank Musikverlage Produced using the facilities of The Banff Centre for the Arts.
"Hiroko", "Heathcliff', "Lesson 2", "Stupid as a Rose II" and "Power" were originally produced for "Miasma. A Butoh Opera", performed December 2, 1992 at The Margaret Greenham Theatre of The Banff Centre, Canada.
"Lession 2" is based on a 15th century prologue to "La Roman de la Rose", vox-loop: Joseph Schmidt . "Stupid as a Rose" draws on a Victorian British song, "It's the Same the Whole World over". "Heathcliff' is inspired by Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights".
Cover design: M. Bulgrin/Artcore
Photographs:
booklet outside MRI-Scans of Myra Davies' Head (by Lawrence Panychp); traycord inside G. Klix performing as Judith in Miasma (by Michael Maranda); booklet inside in order of appearance Myra Davies (by Cheryl Bellows), Hiroko Tamano performing in Miasma (by Michael Maranda), Gudrun Gut (by Isabell Hegner)
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| all songs written & performed by davies/gut recorded at the banff certre roe the arts, canada mixed at mega studio berlin produced and mixed by g. gut edited at lab studio berlin |
for their help and support we like to thank: maenad theatre calgary, the banff centre for the arts, johnny klimek, thomas fehlmann, don gordon, frauensenat berlin chris, mata, olga, and ina. |
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| special thanks to our guest artists: christina willings jovanka von willsdorf inga humpe kai uwe kohlschmidt | photo credits: douglas smith cover ballerina is tara yip |
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