Erin Single
Media artist, designer, educator
Project 06
Have you ever been to an ocean?
Multimedia performance
Year: 2020
Have you ever been to an ocean?
MIDI controller, Ableton Live software, digital video file (color), digital sound files, speaker, projector, cotton tablecloth, table
Dimensions variable
Have You Ever Seen The Ocean? is a multimedia performance in the
tradition of disc and video jockey culture using found video and audio.
Envisioned as a 30-minute set in a festival or club space, I layer retro
MIDI hip-hop beats and a repeating chorus of a child saying “Have you
ever been to an ocean? I have never been to an ocean” with projected
archival footage of icebergs, the ocean, and beach vacationers from the
1960s and 70s. The work creates a futurescape that use the emotion of
nostalgia to create another world in which we experience a memory of the
ocean in projected sound and image.