Lelavision - music, dance and sculpture in performance

Lelavision's performances combine art forms (sculpture, music, choreography, etc.) in a unique way.
Physical Music is the term coined by Lelavision to describe what they do. To create physical music the performers
play on sculpture, play with music, and play through space. Thus Physical Music is play cubed.

Evening length performances feature multiple shorter works.

	the Violcano Like a viola-X-volcano, this conical steel sculpture with vertical piano wire strings can be plucked or bowed. Like a dulcimer or steel drum, it sings when struck. Like a ride at the fair, it spins. Lelavision performers catch a lift on the Violcano while playing their groovy tunes on it. To their surprise, they are sucked into the crater, then erupted for a seismic finish. Performers: 2 Time: 10 min. Requirements: 2 hour set up time, sound system. Can accomodate small stages .
	The Orbacles At first the Orbacles, two large fabricated steel balls, give no hint that they contain scrunched performers hidden inside! Then the balls come to life, rolling and scurrying like huge bugs, conversing in an Orbaclean language of creaking, thumping, and pinging that audiences easily understand as the bugs’ drama unfolds. Finally, metamorphosis! Legs, torsos, heads emerge as bugs become people, moving, rolling, clanging, and pounding out a musical score. Performers: 2 Time: 10 min. Requirements: Min. stage size of 16 x 10'
Lelavision performing Longwave from Lelavision on Vimeo.	the Longwave Standing behind this horizontal, wave-shaped harp, stroking rather than plucking the nearly invisible, 25-foot, rosined strings, Lelavision’s performers use gesture and dance to produce polyrhythmic and sequenced patterns of music and movement. Canons and polyphonic harmonies arise from the dance as though the musical notes were inherent in the body rather than in the instrument. Performers: 2-5 Time: 20 min. Requirements: Min. stage size: 20 x 10', two hour set-up
	the Rumitone This tubular-bell, sit-and-spin sculpture explores the aural and visual possibilities of a whirling universe. Two Lelavision dancer/musicians in the center of that universe – at the still point of the turning world – fold in and around each other with gestures and dynamic shapes centered on the lotus-shaped instrument they are playing, all the while evoking the poetic roots that inspired this meditative yet dazzling instrument. Performers: 2 Time: 10 min. Requirements: Min. stage size of 12' x 12 '
Lelavision's Pandemonium from ela lamblin on Vimeo.	the Pandemonium At dawn the Pandemonium, a 10’ long by 12’ high, aluminum sculpture-boat, is afloat on the high seas, its crew of shaman clowns gently rocking with the waves. Waking up, the crew starts the “motor” (a balloon reed pump organ) and begins charting the seas, surfing the waves, and dancing the Sailor Dance. A storm looms, then unleashes chaos, tossing the crew into the sea and capsizing the boat. The clowns cling wild-eyed to the boat’s sides while the storm abates. “Pandemonium” (boat and show), propelled on waves of droning chords, exotic melodies, and peppy sailor songs, evokes myths and epic journeys, inward and outward. Performers: 2-3 Time: 12 min.
Lelavision performs Bungee Drumming from ela lamblin on Vimeo.	Bungee Drumming With a tremendous crack, sprites fall from the sky, defying earth’s gravity to bounce and “boing” in space. Like superheroes the performers fly through the air, smashing out a thunderous score on drums and cymbals hanging planet-like in the heavens. With its electrifying display of Spiderman leaps and bionic flips, “Bungee Drumming” keeps audiences on the edges of their seats while performers, bouncing and swinging on bungee cords in a barely controlled madness of movement, play the suspended percussion instruments – and coax a sparkling rain from clouds. Performers: 2-4 Time: 10 min. Requirements: Min. stage size of 20' x 16 ', four adequate rigging points of at least 17' in height from stage deck.
	the Teetertone This HPV (human powered vehicle) is part teeter-totter, part instrument, part demolition tool. Demonstrating the advantages of leverage and making a humorous analogy with modern cranes, the Teetertone is piloted by a performer who maneuvers its long truss-like frame around the stage while playing the musical wheels and mega strings. He manipulates a second performer as if she were an object, lifting her, pushing her into various shapes, dropping her in a pile, and suspending her inverted in the air. In the end, the object proves the equal of the builder, and the resulting equilibrium sends the two into a see-sawing whirl. Performers: 2 Time: 8 min. Requirements: Min. stage size of 20'x20' or outdoor roving.
	the Lunatone This chiming aerial aparatus rotates in two planes simultaneously. Two performers seem to float weightlessly as they hang onto the circular truss frame while percussing the slit-tube chimes. As a display of strength and grace in the midst of dangerous maneuvers, the Lunatone is an exciting but ultimately soothing spectacle. Performers: 2 Time: 10 min. Requirements: Min. stage size of 16' x 16' An adequate rigging point of at least 17' in height from the stage deck.
the Metalphor and Syntonem from ela lamblin on Vimeo.	the Metalphor and Syntonem The Metalphor is a stringed instrument played by rolling a large stainless steel orb along the strings to bend the pitch. Made from diamond plate and dished aluminum with 8 strings, the Metalphor shares commonalities with a steel guitar but has a distinctive timbre more akin to the Indian Rudra Vina. In performance it also serves as a percussive instrument and as a prop for acroballancing. The Metalphor is accompanied by the Syntonem, a four-string drone and percussion instrument that utilizes e-bows to create an audial-foundation of acoustic standing waves. Performers: 2 Time: 10 min.
Pollenphones from ela lamblin on Vimeo.	Pollenphonics These instruments are the result of a collaboration with reproductive biologist Anna Edlund. Inspired by the forms and functions of pollen grains, this set of stainless steel and wood percussion instruments borrows ideophonic ideas from the hang drum and steel pans in the upper octaves, and from marimbas and balaphons in the lower octaves. Performers: 2-4 Time: 10 min.
	Atomspheres These Helmholz resonator marimbas mounted on whimsical horse-like wheeled carts are ridden by performers playing a polyrhythmic score as they execute whimsical choreography. Performers: 4 -6 Time: 10 min. Requirements: A stage of at least 30'x20' with a suitable dance surface.
	the Stamenphone Candy for the eye and ear. Great for events that need a non-intrusive instrumental music that sets a soothing and mysterious mood of awe and beauty. A sixteen string sculpture played with bowed harmonics. Haunting melodies and eerie pitch bending combine in a unique modal music. The Stamenphone is the ultimate instrument of chill with a sound that will transport you to another realm. Performers: 1 Gala events, openings, weddings, music stages, concerts
	the Orbitone A musical acrobatic swing.

the Violcano

The Orbacles

the Longwave

the Rumitone

the Pandemonium

Bungee Drumming

the Teetertone

the Lunatone

the Metalphor and Syntonem

Pollenphonics

Atomspheres

the Stamenphone

the Orbitone