Lost in Deep Time
Lost in Deep Time is a multi-screen digital installation featuring Andy Akiho’s piano & string quartet Prospects of a Misplaced Year. In its premiere in Sun Valley Museum of Art’s 2023 exhibition “The Color of Sound,” the 34-minute work is installed in a dedicated space with layered projections. Following an imagined narrative in the music, each of the five movements explores a different deep time terrain: a frenzied survey of the John Day Fossil Beds, a descent through strata in the Grand Canyon, lost inside Crack-in-the-Ground, flowing within the Black Magic Canyon, and emerging from the subterranean to dynamic glacial landscapes atop Mount Adams.
2023, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Two-Screen Projection
Full 33-minute video of two of the screens in the installation.
Prospects of a Misplaced Year Composed by Andy Akiho
Performed by Jenny Q Chai and Friction Quartet
Movements:
I. The War Below | The War Below (John Day Fossil Beds, OR)
II. Matchbook Aria | Descent (Grand Canyon, AZ)
III. (K)in(e)tic (V)ar(i)atio(n)s | Labyrinth (Crack-in-the-Ground, OR)
IIII. Palindromic Queue | Submerged (Black Magic Canyon, ID)
V. On The tIdeS of November | Emergence (Paisley Caves, OR & Mount Adams, WA)
Technology by Thomas Wester and Ben Purdy, Glowbox
Additional Engineering and Programming by Matt Arnold, Holly Newlands and Danny Rosenberg
Full 33-minute video showing all three videos.
The three videos are all projected on scrims, affording views through multiple planes of the installation.
