Above documentation from John Weisse of Colin Manning’s multifarious media array circa 2012.
SEASON FINALE!! SUNDAY MAY 1st in the PNCA MEDIATHEQUE!
In the final Pacific Vortex venture for the Spring 2016 season, we are pleased to plunge you into a multi-channel miasma orchestrated by Ben Glas and Joseph Wells. Here you will find a formidable constellation of quadrophonic arrays and computational creativity that activates, in new ways, the architecture of the Mediatheque and your own mind! Sine-waves accompanied by generative visual abstractions will segue, sojourn, soliloquy, or, in other ways, play perceptively on the audience’s sense-abilities.
Out of time, place and scale, this future-present foray will be followed by the polychromatic Pond Mind Pulp, a live artwork carried out by Colin Manning on his customized16mm projection systems. An outgrowth of projection arts and ad-hoc animation trajectories cultivated in San Francisco’s vibrant 1990’s musical scene, Manning physically conjures a phantasmagoric environment using celluloid selections that are dyed, inked, bleached, cut up and compiled on large reels. These elaborate illuminations hybridized with handmade slide and overhead transparency projections and mixed by hand are improvisational and articulated without electronic expediencies.
Manipulating found film audio, Big Baby on Board, a newly formed group with Sat Pavan on percussive base, John Pape on air organ, Evan Spacht on trombone, and special tricks by Ez Ra will sonically enhance Manning’s multifarious media maneuvers.