Music composed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau with Kate Dillingham after Claude Debussy’s La Mer
live sound processing: Melissa Grey
trombone: David Morneau
cello: Kate Dillingham
live visuals: Marc Fiaux
Thursday, October 10, 2019
9:00 pm
Pine Box Rock Shop
12 Grattan Street
Brooklyn, NY
Music composed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau with Kate Dillingham after Claude Debussy’s La Mer
live sound processing: Melissa Grey
trombone: David Morneau
cello: Kate Dillingham
live visuals: Marc Fiaux
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
mem mer mère World Premiere
Havre de Grace Cultural Center at the Opera House
121 N. Union Avenue
Havre de Grace, Maryland 21078
Music composed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau with Kate Dillingham after Claude Debussy’s La Mer
live sound processing: Melissa Grey
trombone: David Morneau
cello: Kate Dillingham
live visuals: Marc Fiaux
with recorded narration: Dr. Bhawani Venkataraman
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
mem mer mère World Premiere
Havre de Grace Cultural Center at the Opera House
121 N. Union Avenue
Havre de Grace, Maryland 21078
Photon Ecstasy (DNA Photon: Petite Field Illuminator Remix)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
with Elizabeth A Baker / Payton MacDonald
Pete’s Candy Store
Brooklyn
18 November 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a growing catalog of compositions that engages music, sound, science fiction, and interactive light. It is an expansion of the mythology created by Dan Rose in his artist book, The DNA-Photon Project, which tells the story of a top-secret government project that converted the DNA of a young woman into photons and beamed them out to the stars in order to mate with intelligent life and expand humanity into the far future universe.
Photon Ecstasy allows l’Ao to collaborate and connect with musicians, artists, engineers, and designers. The first installment, Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924), was commissioned by and premiered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center in conjunction with the exhibition of Dan Rose’s artist books, Plaisirs Arbitraires | Arbitrary Pleasures (October 2016).
11 September, 2016
North Country Electronic Music Festival
ArtsRiot
Burlington, VT
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by
Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Emmet O'Neal Library
Mountain Brook, Alabama
14 October 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
with Elizabeth A Baker / Payton MacDonald
Pete’s Candy Store
Brooklyn
18 November 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
University of Pennsylvania
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, & Manuscripts
Philadelphia, PA
20 October 2016
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
Pete's Candy Store
Brooklyn
18 November 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a performance project that engages music, sound, and interactive light. Created by composer-performers Melissa Grey & David Morneau, it is a concert-length spatial performance for trombone and live electronics—including custom-built interactive wearable technology, the beeps of subverted video game systems, the randomness of the Benjolin modular synthesizer, the data sonification of star maps, field recordings of pre-dawn coyote vocalisation, and samples from the NASA Audio Collection. Commissioned by University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Photon Ecstasy is an adaptation of The DNA-Photon Project, an artist book and twenty-five machine-sculptures by Dan Rose. New York Arts wrote that with repeated listenings "there’s more to be moved and impressed by, to learn from…."
Photon Ecstasy (Kepler-37)
composed, produced and performed by l'Ao
[ Melissa Grey & David Morneau ]
with Nicole Antebi
Strange Stage no.2
Muchmore's
Brooklyn
27 January 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a growing catalog of compositions that engages music, sound, science fiction, and interactive light. It is an expansion of the mythology created by Dan Rose in his artist book, The DNA-Photon Project, which tells the story of a top-secret government project that converted the DNA of a young woman into photons and beamed them out to the stars in order to mate with intelligent life and expand humanity into the far future universe.
Photon Ecstasy allows l’Ao to collaborate and connect with musicians, artists, engineers, and designers. The first installment, Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924), was commissioned by and premiered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center in conjunction with the exhibition of Dan Rose’s artist books, Plaisirs Arbitraires | Arbitrary Pleasures (October 2016).
Photon Ecstasy (DP Leonis)
composed, produced and performed by
Melissa Grey & David Morneau
with Elizabeth A Baker / Payton MacDonald
Pete's Candy Store
Brooklyn
18 November 2017
Photon Ecstasy is a growing catalog of compositions that engages music, sound, science fiction, and interactive light. It is an expansion of the mythology created by Dan Rose in his artist book, The DNA-Photon Project, which tells the story of a top-secret government project that converted the DNA of a young woman into photons and beamed them out to the stars in order to mate with intelligent life and expand humanity into the far future universe.
Photon Ecstasy allows l’Ao to collaborate and connect with musicians, artists, engineers, and designers. The first installment, Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924), was commissioned by and premiered at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center in conjunction with the exhibition of Dan Rose’s artist books, Plaisirs Arbitraires | Arbitrary Pleasures (October 2016).
Melissa Grey & David Morneau return to Pete’s Candy Store with special guest Jessica Bowers for an expanded performance of Kepler–19, for benjolin, sequenced gates, trombone, and mezzo-soprano.
Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:00pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, New York
World Premiere of Melissa Grey's "to...return" featuring David Morneau, trombone
Performed by CompCord String Orchestra, Arkady Leytush conductor,
as part of Composers Concordance 'Concertos & Stuff' concert
@ Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
05 November 2017
video by Eddie Papetti
Photon Ecstasy (Trappist-1)
composed, produced and performed by Melissa Grey & David Morneau
with Thomas Piercy
Tokyo to New York
Bargemusic
Brooklyn
22 September 2017
