//  Duration: 15'

//  Date: 2015

//  Instrumentation: harp, trombone, percussion,              conductor/performer

// Created in collaboration with Michelle Wang

//  Filmed: 19 April 2015

Created with Michelle Wang

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Featuring Elizabeth Huston, harp; Justin Moore, trombone; Eric Derr, percussion; and Marc as The Conductor

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The Nervous System Symphony is a video installation, conceived by artist Michelle Wang and presented as a video projected in a gallery space with three-channel audio playback. The video is a documentation of a live performance: it concerns the gaze of power, as a conductor figure (played by the composer) uses hand signals to direct three musicians on raised scaffolding to play segments of a semi-aleatoric score he composed for them. In the gallery above, an audience watches. The piece has been presented in galleries in Philadelphia, New York, and Brussels. 

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View on artist Michelle Wang's website