Omicron 

2015 | Archival Video, Video Synthesis | Stereo Audio | Green Bank, West Virginia | 0:35:00
Omicron was a playful one-time performance and exploration of microscopy and macroscopy— radio astronomy, bacteria, and microalgae; human effort, the seeming meaninglessness of tiny lives, unshakable hope, parallel worlds, the seeing of the unseeable, and the power of little things.

This dual-channel video performance centered on video of microalgae, diatoms, and other tiny, single-celled organisms dwelling in a proverbial mud puddle in the shadow of the world's largest moving manmade object on land— a massive, fully steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. Both microorganisms and deep space objects can only be seen through scientific instruments that extend the human range of vision. The shapes of the microorganisms somehow parallel the shapes and forms of heavenly bodies and radio signals— radiant orbs, clouds, streaks, and clusters drifting in an infinite space.

Video was manipulated and layered, sound was a combination of generative synthesized audio and multilayered field recordings of Appalachian marsh and forest landscapes alongside sonified radio telescope data. 

Omicron
35 minutes, dual channel, live performance, stereo sound