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Hop Co-Commission

DJ SPOOKY

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica

Wednesday, April 15 • 7 pm
The Moore Theater
$26 • Dartmouth students $5

Conceptual artist, writer and musician DJ Spooky paints an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent in his newest large-scale multimedia performance work. Co-commissioned by the Hop and being presented at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica repositions man's relationship with nature and the issue of global warming in technologically revealing ways. From century-old maps and journals to the sound-wave frequencies of ice itself, Terra Nova digitally reconstructs a “media-free” land mass for the contemporary imagination. To create this piece, DJ Spooky traversed Antarctica with a portable studio, recording the sounds of the complex ecological interactions of ice floes. His sonic translation offers audiences the opportunity to stand on new ground, where rapid technological change collides with the plodding advance of a seemingly silent and blank physical landscape—propelling the viewer into a fresh way of seeing and capping the International Polar Year.

Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.