Reimagining The Concert Hall As A Space Of Change - To Raise Awareness On Individual Responsibility?

The first component of the tryptic is a multi continent concert tour. Ahead of the tour, Pangalou will disintergrate the Ising project as a whole, into its content as well as in its structure to local climate change activists, NGOs, and new music ensembles. In addition she will develop partnerships with foundations and liaise with local hubs of artists in order to raise awareness and individual responsibility. 

Pangalou will then present a performance with an open score as a preparation for the in situ performance. All the elements of the performance i.e. Environment, human voice and ice will be presented. A video projection with the addition of photographs from the area, recordings from the land and sea of the Arctic environment, a recorded melting process of a piece of ice plus the human voice creating a vocal environment will be presented. All the elements are in attendance but not interacting until the actual Arctic performances.

How A Human Song Can Sculpt An Iceberg

The second component of the cycle is a 21-day performance piece at one of the Earth’s polar ice caps. During this performance, Pangalou will retrieve a detached piece of ice from a local iceberg and place it on a platform. For the next 21 days (the time an egg needs to form into a new life), Pangalou will sing to the ice - a body of water in a different form.  The artist intends to formulate a sculpture with the warmth of the exhalation created by singing. As she sings, the C02 she produces, the very element that brought life back at the beginning of creation, will be funneled through a pipe with detachable endings of different forms. This gas will begin to shape and sculpt the detached piece of the iceberg into a new form. Existing / breathing for beauty versus existing / breathing for  distraction as humans have in the last decades. A specially designed garment will be worn. In the process the artist aims to transform into a new clarified and conscious individual. Can the human body sing in these harsh conditions? Can a sculpture be created in the Arctic by singing? The evolution of the ice will be captured via still photographs and videos. Contact mics and other monitoring apparati both on ice and on Pangalou’s body will record and project the sounds she is singing and the vibrations her pharynx is producing. In the daily performances the sounds of the ice, of the human body and of the environment combined with the landscape of the Arctic will create an introspection on the dialogue between two different forms of water. Past, present and future unite in a single moment, the space of unification / the sound of creation and, as the C02 hits the ice, transformation.

The Songs Of 2 Bodies Of Water

The third component of the Ising tryptic will be a second multi continent concert tour in which Pangalou will stand in front of the video and still image documentation and present a music performance. The performance will be formed by her live voice and electronic new music compositions generated from both the sounds made to sculpt the ice as well as music inspired by the data she gathered from various biometric sensors which captured her body’s struggle in the harsh environment. Can the performance aid the liquefaction of humans/the spectators, who often look as if they have turned into iced creatures that do not communicate with their environment? The installation with the video and still documentation together with the electronic composition, can be exhibited as autonomous artistic piece that can travel to venues that are unable to host a full performance.

First multi continent concert tour - The Ising Arise of Awareness

The first part of the performance is the preparation of the actual in situ performance. In this part  visual, sonic, meteorological and geographical data from the Arctic is used. The various aspects of the human performance are scientifically measured and presented. There is an experimentation on the sonic behavior of a piece of ice. Each performance of this part depends on the place, time and condition of the environment in order to fine tune their associations with the relevant parameters

21 day performance piece at one of the Earth’s polar ice caps - How A Human Song Can Sculpt An Iceberg

The actual performance at the Arctic is spread out on a duration of 21 days. Each day one or more performances will take place. Each performance last circa 17 minutes. There is a formal plan that guides all the performances. In this plan a number of events has been prepared with some parameters fixed and others left to the conditions of the environment to control. The performer “sings” to the ice. The performance, the response of the ice and the environment are documented. Every day after the performances the performer is reporting the day's experiences.

Second multi continent concert tour - The Songs Of 2 Bodies Of Water

In the last part of the triptych, the documentation, the collected material and the completed scores from the 21 days performances will be exhibited in a multimedia environment where further performances can be implemented, as exhibitions, performances, concerts etc. The composition will include live vocals in dialogue with the electronic composition. All the music elements that have been used to the two previous components of the triptych will be fragmented and recombined , thus creating an ever-changing discourse between the various occurrences of the Ising performances.