In collaboration with artist Taxiplasm, 'Tell Me Your Secrets' is an interactive sound installation and performance experience leading us to reconcile with our most vulnerable selves. TMYS was commissioned in 2014 by the P3 Studio at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in partnership with Art Production Fund and co-produced by Contaminate.

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The work is authentically twenty-first century.

Nature speaks and experience translates.
Yet we falsely subscribe to a belief that the admission of these truths will render us weak.

'Tell Me Your Secrets' is a somatic quest to abandon this notion, to unlock and reveal these deeper truths which hallmark our identity. Amidst a blackened space, microphones invite the audience to vulnerably share their untold tales, and the more you give, the more it gives back. Through a complex algorithm, one's voice merges with others, expanding upon a five-hour musical score that filters through two mirrored chambers, one which summons your body, and opens the threshold toward revelation. But you are not alone in this quest.

There is an Other.



Throughout the residency, each artist surrendered himself for five consecutive hours inside two identical black pyramid chambers, each lined with color-changing LED lights breathing like a pulse, to physically and sonically experience and reinterpret the collecting voices from the previous day, to additively morph the experience into a vast ocean of voices, expanding into a newfound physical makeup, an image of a secret humanity, long lost in its volatile quest for meaning, hiding behind our many walls and beneath our many mirrors.

Step inside.
It is the doorway between your words and your voice, your face and your reflection, your pain and your catharsis.

Your truth, and mine. It is the purity of time, to listen, to feel, to repudiate a world that judges with fear, and numinously expand the one that emboldens our fragility, and strengthens our humanity.



The compositional soundscape is punctuated by granular vicissitudes, the incomprehensible secret. The sound of collective' voices echo in the burbling broke of the unknown. Modulating grand vibration creates tension between love and orgasm. Pitches of the tweeter synthesize a garbled collective voice. Chords of the major and minor, tones of the masculine and feminine flow, weave between our persons.



Active participants contribute distinct sound bites to feed the composition. Passive listeners travel within the sound. The score composed for this interactive sound installation explores the manifestation, transition and mutation of possible human emotional states as driven by the revelation of hidden truths. The music ultimately acted as a catharsis for the performer by leading her through a privileged, solitary and transfiguring aural-emotional journey.

Read a review on the Las Vegas Review Journal.

AUDERE is a hemi-interactive sound installation that investigates the state of artistic redemption. After undergoing cycles that alternate struggling phases and revelatory epiphanies, an artist evolves and expands his essence for the sake of reaching a state of consciousness.
Audere praises the struggle and the affirmation of an artist's aesthetical vision.
Audere is inspired by the artistic ferment arisen during the Futurism age, a modernist avant-garde movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. The installation investigates the relationship between the clash of mechanical tact with human pulses as it occurs in the specific act of polishing by a woodworker, or better a luthier, he who turns wood into music instruments.
The overall sound texture will consist of concrete sounds coming from the wooden canvases. Complex rhythmical patterns of frictional sounds and granular entities will be filling the space in a narrative counterpoint.

ORACOLO is an interactive sound art installation, which generates sound according to the movement of a sphere in the air by a user-performer. This installation consists of a wood-aluminum platform and of an unbound plasticaluminum sphere. Once the user enters the platform, he interacts with the system through the movement of the sphere. Depending on the speed of motion, the position and the angle of rotation (as well as on subjective characteristics such as weight), audio samples taken from the friction between performerʼs hands and sphere surface are properly processed.
The musical core is made up of a series of real-time algorithms that superimpose a compositional approach to the gestures of the performer. A hyperbolic cone intersected with multilevel planes realizes the space mapping, which is unknown to the user. Each slot of space is ideally associated with different concepts of human perception, i.e. pleasantness or level of activity.

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Sarah Small's Tableau Vivant of The Delirium Constructions is a multi-disciplinary performance art event: it is music and dance, it is both a living painting and photography, and it is film. It is a manifesto of ultimate beauty.
The project stems from the French tableau vivant, a representation of a scene or work of art by a person or group of people, posed silent and motionless. Sarah Small's Tableau revolutionized the concept from a nineteenth-century parlor amusement to a twenty-first century performance art event.
One hundred twenty models and musicians of all ages, sizes, and colors, in various states of dress and undress, come to life for a seventy-five-minute live improvisational and choreographed performance including opera and a cappella singing, Balkan folk and contemporary classical music. The performance culminates in live weddings supported by synchronized breathing from the whole cast, then turns into an audience-inclusive immersive party.

External link: Tableau Vivant