THESE WOULD BE OTHER

These Would Be Other is a collaborative work spearheaded by Brigid Burke and Sophie Rose. Composed over a year, the piece uses video, live and pre-recorded audio, and electronics. Burke layers visuals and audio to further distort Chris Mann’s text. The work was initially conceived as a tribute to Chris Mann’s life and oeuvre and published in Open Space Magazine as Two for Chris. These Would Be Other morphs the ideas of tribute and present-day considerations. The text was delivered by Sophie Rose at different points of exposure to the poem, from initial reading to experienced live delivery. This supplies an increasing complexity in delivery, pitch, and tonality in the pre-recorded. This complexity is further amplified by Burke’s echolalic audio distortions. Burke superimposes multiple layers of sound and video to create a fractured image of the fractal and recursive nature of the text and hues.