Shomit
Barua
Ancient Passages: Echoes of Luna City
A multi-narrative, non-linear sound installation: 30 miniature guitar amps on tripods are placed in thematic clusters around the periphery of the main space, in niches, corners, and the ends of hallways. They are unobtrusive, registering more as a layer of whispers, and they form a sonic tapestry that serves as an oral history of the future. The voices in each cluster are digital artifact, first-person monologues from specific points in the 150 years leading up to Luna City 2175; as the monologues play in a continuous, asynchronous loops, different perspectives of the events are emphasized. The audience becomes both passive and active participants; passive as they listen to the monologues, and active as their own attention and movement curates their experience.
Info about EMERGE 2018 in which this debuted:
https://asunow.asu.edu/20180312-creativity-asu-emerge-create-moon-colony-campus
Directed and Produced + Synths by Shomit Barua
Writers/Voices:
Jenna Duncan
Dan Piatkowski
Dominic Miller
Phil Weaver-Stoesz
Ian James
Zach Workman**
Jesse Grodman
Nicole Audrey Spector
Sheryl Glubok
Leah Newsom
Daisy Nolz**
Shomit Barua
Ken Eklund
Shannon Luders-Manuel
Lisa Yu
Seth Palermo
**rock star status...4+ monologues/voices