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Inspired by Franz Kafka’s celebrated novel Metamorphosis, this immersive 360° program features two Maltese artists: pianist Tricia Dawn Williams and composer Ruben Zahra. More specifically, Kafka’s Insect is a multimedia performance presented at the Satosphère on February 17, as part of the SMCQ’s Montreal / Nouvelles Musiques festival. For this, Ruben Zahra has imagined a cycle of video art tableaux evoking the narrative framework of Metamorphosis, under the sonic impulse of the piano and an analog synthesizer – Moog Mother 32. A laboratory flask shatters on the floor, rain pelts windows, apples are thrown against the wall, dinnerware rattles and more. Here’s a work in which sound is deeply linked to the video images projected onto the hyperbolic screen, images shot with the 1838 Daguerreotype Achromat lens. This vintage lens captures a soft light with textured backgrounds when in focus, adding to the singular look of Kafka’s Insect. For www.panm360.com, Alain Brunet caught up with Ruben Zahra in Malta, a few days before his flight to Montreal.
Crédit photo: Emma Tranter
Event presented as part of Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques / 12th edition (2025) – Music and images.
Participants
- Tricia Dawn Williams, piano
- Ruben Zahra, treatment
Program
- Kafka’s Insect (2021), 40:00RubenZahrapiano, video and processing
Satosphère – Société des arts technologiques1195, boulevard Saint-Laurent – H2X 2S6métro Saint-LaurentMonday, February 17, 2025 7:30 pm
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