FLOES Music Video at NYCEMF 2025

Floes has two formats: as a music video and as a multimedia piece involving dance, music and video. It was created in collaboration among artist SoHyun Bae, choreographer Virginie Mécène and composer Judith Shatin. The music video premiered on the University of Virginia TechnoSonics 2024 Festival, while the full version including dance premiered on the NEW@Graham: Graham and Tech at the Martha Graham Studio on 3/18 & 3/19 and was also featured at the WestFest Festival. Floes is the result of an interactive process, with each of the collaborators sharing their work and using it as a cross-media springboard that led to cross-media responses and discussion. Inspired by our concern for the havoc of climate change and named for the large ice sheets that form ever more frequently on bodies of water around melting glaciers, our sonic/visual /kinetic collaboration embodies formation, collision, breaking, flowing. This piece would not have been possible without technological mediation for the collaboration, including the flow of the video, dance and digital music, the latter created by processing underwater recordings of glaciers.