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Imbrialis is a re-envisioning of my work Must Pass. It features the scoring score of a thunderstorm generated every 2 minutes at performance time. In an ELEVATOR. There’s a 55 gallon drum and people can throw rocks into it to spawn melodies and harmonies that change over time. In an ELEVATOR.
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Elevator Music 44: Joel Mellin—Imbrialis invites visitors to engage the poetics of a thunderstorm in an elevator. The thunderstorm is generated by Mellin’s custom computer code that calculates, organizes, and realizes the pitched raindrops of a storm. Each time the program performs the piece, a different version of the storm unfolds, which visitors will see as a scrolling score on a monitor. Visitors are also invited to toss a stone into a metal drum in the center of the elevator, creating a unique musical sequence that will join the sound of rain and thunder in the elevator. As melodies are created and then fade away, we are left to consider the scale of our actions, their impact on ourselves and others, and how we are changed by the storm. When the storm recedes, what’s left in our memory?