Ebru, Reimagined

Ebru, Reimagined is a thirty-second audiovisual miniature: ink dropped into water, combed, and pulled into current, over a single sung phrase — a passage in F♯ minor from my own recordings — slowed and looped so that the voice and the ink move at the same speed.

It was made as the signature for Fluid Narratives, the research project that turns Turkish marbling into a live instrument, and it is the whole project in one breath: the traditional image, digitally reimagined; the voice not on top of it but inside it, becoming current. It plays forward and back — a ping-pong loop — so that the pattern forms and un-forms and the phrase is never finished.