Digital Musics & Sound Art
HONORARY MENTION
Documentation
Polar Force is a phenomenological investigation of the windiest, coldest, and driest continent on earth: Antarctica.
During the one-hour work, vivid multichannel Antarctic field recordings of wind, water, and ice are combined with new instruments, sampled in a live performance and a choreographed artistic “lecture” undertaken by two performers reminiscent of scientists in a remote polar field station. The immersive live performance merges the art-science-tech to comment on geopolitical issues and the climate crisis.
Project Credits:
- Co-director: Clare Britton
- Performers: Matthias Schack-Arnott & Eugene Ughetti
- Lighting Designer: Keith Tucker
- Sound Design & Instrument Design: Nick Roux
- RMIT Industrial Design Atelier Leader: Dr Malte Wagenfield
- Producer: Sheah Sutton
- Project Supporters: Australian Antarctic Division, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, School of Art – RMIT University, APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund, Besen Family Foundation
