Collage from a video installation entitled "Improvisation on a theme, no. 1", November 1997 Digitized Hi-8 video, composited and rendered in Adobe Premiere "It was projected onto six intertranspicuous plexiglass screens which were hung from the ceiling. Each image of me sings one of six parts of a harmony into the microphone. Each part was spontaneously and improvisationally recorded following the playback of a central "melody," which is actually a recording of something I sang into my voice mail (there are no words in the piece). Ultimately the piece is about the infinitude and sourcelessness within the moment of spontaneous performance and the manner in which this becomes intellectualized and pondered through visual and aural playback. It was displayed on Halloween in Dwight Hall and at Open Studio in Hammond Hall November 13." -MS