Sean Noyce

Funeral Procession / Portal (1) merges the technology of today with the mysticism and rituals of antiquity. Sampling a modern recreation of an ancient Greek funeral song, I have stretched the recording over 100 times so that the audible moments are abstracted to haunting drones and chimes. The recording is then imputed into a program that I have written, rendering visualizations from those sound frequencies.

Funeral Procession was featured in Empedocles’ Ghost, a collaboration with Noysky Projects and The Syndicate of Creatures at Warehouse9, an early 20th century slaughterhouse in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District. The rustic gallery was formerly a holding pen where cattle were taken to be watered and cleaned after they were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The cattle were later shuttled to their final destination, where they were slaughtered in a nearby building. The video installation was inspired by this deeply charged place, referring to the fleeting moment when the spirit leaves the body as it travels between the transitory plane between the living and the dead.