Bylta is a collaboration between Tinna and visual glass artist Alli Hoag. The workshop Bylta has been ongoing during the fall of 2015 in the Glass Area of the School of Arts at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Tinna will work further with glass artist Alli Hoag, faculty and the student body in the period of Dec 1st-16th. Tinna will also give seminars at the School of Arts and the College of Musical Arts, where she will also give composition students private lessons. Concluding with Bylta, a live performance with Tinna, Alli, faculty and students at The Corning Museum of Glass, NY in the series 2300° in the Amphitheater Hot Shop on Dec 17 from 6-8 pm.
About Bylta:
Icebergs are born through a cataclysmic collision of two states of the same matter between ice and sea. Inspired by the tumultuous plunge of unstable glacial fragments into the ocean below, the Icelandic term Bylta means “a heavy blow, overturn, roll, or tumble about”. Bylta is a performance fueled by the purpose to reveal and celebrate the unstable endpoints of creativity that fuels both musical and visual art. Performance artist and pianist Tinna Thorsteinsdóttir and visual artist Alli Hoag have collaborated with students and alumni from Bowling Green State University to answer the questions of “How can a musical performance create a physical residue?” “In what ways can we make glass and music collide?”. To facilitate this exercise in synesthesia, we have physically interconnected these creative practices through teaming up with the Calmus project. In the new iPad application program CalmusGlass, real time musical notation is created from video input, in this case of the brightness and movement of molten glass. We will also utilize the semi-conductive properties of glass to “play” a composition through the use of the digital iPad application platform of the MakeyMakey. Accompanied by real time looping of sounds collected from the natural forming and cracking of the glass during the performance, both physical and musical compositions will express the energy released when these creative processes converge.