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LIQUID STONE LIBATIONS ~ The Soundtrack Suite * (Production Appeal)

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* Purchase of this Soundtrack version will help to produce the Full Soundtrack Music Suite complete with live String Section, Live Drums and Tribal Orchestration. I Thank you for Your Support

Project Details:

Liquid Stone Libations is a breathing-prayer-ritual in sound, image, text, object and light. This film and its related soundtracks are components of a large-scale interactive installation with projected film, residency-specific composed music, paint-printed fabrics, riso print collages, found artefacts and an immersive VR-component. Connecting in Cosenza, the team began writing and creating a cross-dimensional and sea-crossing “Traveler’s Tale” in reaction to and inspired by human migrations – physical, cultural, and spiritual – as well as in seeking continued connections with ancient travelers lost at sea.

Conceived and developed in 2021 for the WATER WEIGHS Residency Programme sponsored by the European Union’s Creative Media initiatives with international arts and science organizations 3d-Research (Calabria, Italy), Atlantis Consulting (Athens, Greece) and curated by SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, Germany). The LIQUID STONE LIBATIONS installation premiered in Thessaloniki, Greece October 15; shifted to the SAVVY Contemporary Artspace in Berlin November 13 in the specially curated exhibition EMERGENT STRATEGIES OF THE DEEP; and finished in Cosenza, Italy from mid-December until April 2022.

Archeo-Astronomy, ancient Sumerian Time-Keeping, African Rythm Traditions, Future-Music Tribalism plus historical and technical information from underwater archaeologist Michele Stefanile and divers/underwater filmmakers Matteo Collina and Antonio Lagudi, informed Marque Gilmore’s music compositions, a new film work and storyline created collectively by the team and filmed in Cosenza and surrounding areas (including the underwater sequences) plus texts imbued by the residency experience to support the film and the stories to be shared within the exhibition space. In meeting Ibrahima Ley, one of the "migrants” from Rivoluzione delle Seppie during the 2021 residency in Cosenza, a new character was created for the film. It fulfilled an important ancestral through-line for the story (and the storyboard). Having his blessed participation in the film helped the team to connect deeper with the larger goals of the residency and our own personal missions to connect time, cultures, people, and art.

Blessings and Buoyancy ~ Aché.

Many Thanks to the "Comrades" Roberto, Kayo, Senait, 3D & Savvy for all of their creative energies, support and Flow.


THE FILM:

MARQUE GILMORE
(project-leader; Soundtrack & Sound-Sculpture Composition; scriptwriter/film co-producer; "The Muzik Alchemist" in film)

KAYO MPOYI
(writer/researcher; script co-writer, artist & graphics, "The Shaman" in film)

SENAIT IMBAYE
(actress, script co-writer, "The Traveler" in film)

ROBERTO NOEL
(videographer, director, film editor, project technician)

IBRAHIMA LEY *
(actor, "The Desert-King" in film) * Special Guest Participant from the Mendicino-based migrant organisation “Rivoluzione delle Seppie”



© MARQUE GILMORE / KULT-U-REAL™ Supported and co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), 3D Research (Cosenza, Italy), Atlantis Consulting (Thessaloniki, Greece).