Revisited: New Media Carillon Installation and Performance
Natural Frequencies Feature by KQED
KQED Arts featured BCNM's recent performance 'Natural Frequencies' with an enthusiastic review of the show and the awareness it brings to the earth's movement beneath us. The show achieved its goal of bringing a new connection through technology and art to the world around us and the technical feat of bringing Sather Tower into the 21st century with new purpose and vim.
KTVU Spotlights Natural Frequencies
To offer another view of the Natural Frequencies performance, KTVU came to the February 3rd Sather Tower centennial performance. Constructed in 1915, Sather Tower has long been a symbol of UC Berkeley and a Bay Area landmark. Natural Frequencies adds another layer to its identity, bringing together people to celebrate the wonder of the earth's eternal change and share concerns about upcoming seismological events.
"Natural Frequencies" on NPR
NPR featured the "Natural Frequencies" installation and performance in Shake, Rattle and Toll: Berkeley's Bells Play Sounds of Earth. Author Laura Sydell discusses Bay Area fault lines, data visualization, the process of generating the score for the carillons, and the re-imagination of bell-tower history and purpose.
Revisited
Natural Frequencies commenced the Sather Tower Centennial with a 'shake' as crowds gathered to watch and listen to a musical and visual performance like no other. Connecting real time seismological data to the carillon of Sather Tower, the Natural Frequencies production team was able to produce a surreal and thought provoking musical manifestation of the tectonic shift going on underneath our feet. The performance brought a new perspective on the earth's internal workings which are too often ignored in the seismologically active Bay Area and a 21st century musical facelift to one Cal's most beloved icons.
Check out photos from the event:
Alex Turney's wonderful recording of the performance:
And we were watching too! Take a look at our take of Natural Frequencies:
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