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• Through the Looking Glass

  I’ve always been fascinated by water patterns, explored in this video through the looking glass of a camera lens which takes me closer or farther than I can reach while standing on shore, wading, swimming, or paddling a canoe. The magnification that the lens provides allows me to capture what I can’t observe with my own eyes due to physical obstructions, capabilities, or disruptions in the patterns that adding my body to the water creates. The patterns are illusive, changing in an instant due to variations in wind, light, currents, distance, and/or camera angle. I wanted to capture patterns of rainfall, but the severe drought of 2015 in the San Francisco Bay Area prevented it, so the focus turned to bodies of water in and around the Bay Area. The sounds I wished to hear in these locations were very delicate but were overwhelmed by sounds of helicopters, motorcycles, trucks, cars, trains, BART, and constant planes. I transformed the sounds of these and other human generated sounds into sounds that reflected the natural environment that I captured on video. The images are just as they were captured, without processing. My earlier video Liquid Metal also focused on water patterns and the intrusion of human-created sounds into the wilds.

• THREE MOVEMENTS - Nirvana

  Third movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Oct. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati

• Three Movements - Misshape

  Second movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Oct. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati

• Three Movements - Iambic

  First movement of the three movements piece for Saxophone and live electronics. Live processed with Max/MSP and RTcmix. Premiere: Mar. 2015, Cohen Family Studio, CCM, Cincinnati

• Three Arrangements

  Written for the Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) to accompany world renowned visiting artist Manu Delago's performance; developed in collaboration with Manu Delago and Isa Kurz for their Metromonk tour performance at Virginia Tech featuring L2Ork.

• This, I Cannot Escape

  Audio component of a collaboration with choreographer Morganne Mazeika and digital projection artist Michael Krauss.
  
  The main theme of our collaboration is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and the constant feelings of mental and emotional unrest that accompany PTSD.

• Things That Live in the Whirligig

  Spinning, spinning, spinning… we greet the wondrous creatures that live within the whirligig. This piece explores textures created through spinning, or that evoke whirling. As the whirligig goes round and round, I imagine a menagerie of creatures great and small that reside within. This work is based on a poem composed by my mother when she carried me, and I dedicate it to my newborn daughter. Things That Live in the Whirligig is for solo multi-percussion and live processing, composed in Pure Data. “For things once seen are pulled within the whirligig of mind, where they are tamed and in the heart framed to be used over again in time…”

  Score and Pd patch available at www.vidiksis.com.

• things lost things invisible

• The Vulture

• The Visitation

  Adapted from ‘Scene Unobserved.'