Camera by Dávid lovas
BAT // MAN
A ritual performance that examines how living creatures navigate space and memory using sound.
This project was created in a series of public workshops with students from Anthropos Arts and Austin Soundwaves, culminating in a performance that featured a live audio feed of 1.5 million Mexican Free-Tailed bats (who live under the Congress Street bridge), a conch shell ensemble, a community megaphone choir, garden hose consort, and handmade echolocation devices, modeled after Alvin Lucier's SONDOLS.
This project was supported in part by the Fusebox Festival, the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, the Puffin Foundation, the Texas Commission for the Arts, the Texas Music Office, and New Music USA.
