COLLAPSUS 

(2020, two-channel stereo sound, 9’04’’)

The narrative was adapted from Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts by Douglas Kahn. The original dialogue took place between Millet Morgan and Emory Cook. Inspired by my fascination with Alvin Lucier and Tesla, I created an abstract adaptation where a sergeant is assigned an impossible task: to eliminate a thunderbolt that came from another planet and severely damaged the ship. In this version, we encounter a dialogue where Cook compares the phenomenon of whistlers—resulting from the dispersion of the full electromagnetic spectrum of lightning bursts into the magnetosphere, leaping across the equator between hemispheres to form a glissando—to a deck of cards.

Upon arriving on the planet, they discover it is entirely electromagnetic, filled with constant lightning strikes. Unable to leave, they become stuck to the ground by the planet’s magnetic pull, trapped in a perpetual and humorous search to capture the elusive thunderbolt.

• selected for the 16th edition of MERIDIAN International New Music Festival “Planetarium” - 2020 (postponed 2021) 
  

• selected and awarded at SIMULTAN XVI. UNSTABLE STATE OF THINGS
  

• selected for the National Competition BIEFF - Bucharest International Film Festival - Are we human?
  Screened at Cinemateca Eforie at 17:00 on 19th of November 2021

“This experiment with language offers us a kind of strange encounter between F.J. Ossang’s cinema and abstract video art, against the backdrop of a SF dystopia. Simina Oprescu gives the soundscape the immersive dimension of something pretending to be extraterrestrial (or, at the very least, distant and obscure). Black, white and a multitude of organic and inorganic textures are framed in a postmodern discourse adapted from a dialogue between Millet Morgan and Emory Cook. In this realm of future danger, formal ambiguity gives us the opportunity to explore the materiality of the new world.” (Daria Barbu)