2019.09.18 New album: APPALACHIAN VORTEX TOUR
I am very excited to share this album I made with Andrei Jay, titled: APPALACHIAN VORTEX TOUR.
Near the end of summer, we went on a camping road trip through the Appalachians in search of caves, hollows, and other basins of vortex energy in the forests. I brought my field recorder and my shortwave radio and Andrei brought two Volca FM synthesizers, and we recorded a series of jams at various locations along the way. We were able to pick up electromagnetic interference within the shortwave bands from the built-in amplifier circuits in the Volcas, making the radio act as a kind of extra amplifier which added unique distortions and textures. The sounds of the environment also became part of the recordings, so you can hear crickets, running water, wind, other humans, natural reverb of stone and metal, and the spatialized presence of the built-in speakers of the volcas, intertwined with signals drifting in and out from shortwave broadcasts. The album art, a map of the vortexes we toured, was drawn electronically and then plotted with robotic drawing machines here in the expanded media department at Alfred.
Listen on the player below or visit this link:
palomakop.bandcamp.com/album/appalachian-vortex-tour
2019.06.25 New music video: STORM SURGE
Excited to share a new music video for a track by my New Orleans synth friend Psychic Hotline, titled Storm Surge. I’m looking forward to the upcoming release of their new tape Heat Index. The footage was recorded in collaboration with my friend and classmate Leslie Rollins.
2019.06.21 Upcoming exhibition at SPACES
From June 21 to August 2, selected audio-visual works from my series Experiments in Public will be on view at SPACES in Cleveland, OH, in an immersive viewing chamber called the Vault.
For more info, visit this link:
spacescle.org/exhibitions/2019/06/21/paloma-kop-experiments-in-public
And here is a link to the opening reception on June 21:
facebook.com/events/340609803296879/
2019.06.18 FUGITIVE DREAM RECOVERY: Experiments 2016-2018 VHS
Experiments 2016-2018 is a 60 minute VHS tape by my collaborative side project Fugitive Dream Recovery, released under Bleu Nuit Video.More details can be found here:
bleunuitvideo.storenvy.com/products/28062921-the-bureau-of-fugitive-dream-recovery-experiments-2016-2018
2019.06.01 Télépresence III
On June 1, we held the third edition of Télépresence at La Lumière’s collective space in Montreal. It was so lovely to hang with my fellow video artists, and to perform as 1/2 of Fugitive Dream Recovery during the evening’s a/v show. Here are some photos from people’s setups during the tabling portion, as well as the performances.
