BUFFER
By Xavier Cha
Opera, Dance & Theatre work commissioned by BAM
2017 Next Wave Festival & Performa 2017
Original Music by Aaron David Ross
Xavier Cha’s perception-altering new work lays bare the intimate yet alienated relationships we have with the bodies on our screens.
Music and sound design by Aaron David Ross
Libretto by Juliana Huxtable
Stage design by Paul Kopkau, Felix Burrichter, and Michael Bullock
Costume design by Avena Gallagher
With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4
Audio & Video available upon request
Winner of the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at IFFRby Korakrit Arunanondchai
2017, HD video, 23 minutes 32 seconds
Original Score by Aaron David Ross
“There is nothing else in today’s art world even remotely like Ryan Trecartin‘s videos,” proclaimed Art in America. “It’s a sci-fi theater of the absurd for our manically paced YouTube era.“ Within these fluidly structured and visually commanding works, Trecartin’s groundbreaking sound design—a densely layered mix of rapid-fire dialogue, electronic music and live instrumentation—extends the depth, intensity, and insane hilarity of his art. He is joined by his principal collaborator Lizzie Fitch, music producer and DJ Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom), and composer/producer Aaron David Ross (who will be conducting and doing the music direction) to present a new, digitally-inflected sonic composition live for the very first time.” – Armory Press Release
JAZZFEST
RYAN TRECARTIN / TOTAL FREEDOM / AARON DAVID ROSS
Audio & Video samples available upon request
Selected Press: Armory Listing | Art NewsNOVEMBER 2016, Presented by the Armory Artists' Studio, New York
Film by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic featuring Boychild
Original Score by Aaron David Ross
Premiered at the 9th Annual Berlin Biennale, 2016
On a Boat sailing up and down the Spree River, Berlin
There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have
(a distracted path toward extinction)
Audio and Video samples available on request
Telfar SS16 show in collaboration with Culturesport
Original Music by Aaron David Ross
Read on DazedTELFAR SS16 x CULTURESPORT
Show trailer animated by CultureSport
Original Music by Aaron David Ross
A new video work commissioned by MOCA Cleveland and Frieze Projects that captures seven actors as they battle conflicting emotions. Extremes of rage, glee, confusion, and terror appear like foreign agents attempting hijack the actors’ faces and bodies. Inspired by sci-fi and horror films, the spare set design, minimal costumes, and dynamic camera work add to the unsettling tone of the work.
ABDUCT
Conceived & Directed by Xavier Cha
Sound Design by Aaron David Ross
The Island (KEN) is a hybrid of the (social) kitchen and the (private) bath, a complex network of resources (water, food, energy, data), and a reflection on how we process resources and turn them into aesthetic ideology. It's a smart island, but it also teaches. Aside from shower demos, The Island (KEN) holds talks on digital consciousness, renovation, procrastination, data obscurity, Pinterest, and more.
RENTOPIA
The Island (KEN)
Created by DIS
Music Composed by Aaron David Ross
Installed at the New Museum, New York 2014
LOVE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER
A Hybrid Opera & Art Collective by Matthew Stone Featuring Matthew Stone, Shayne Oliver & Paul Cupo for Hood By Air, Kelela, Zebra Katz & Michele Lamy, boychild, Andre J, Madeline Hollanderm, AJ Gvojic,
Music by L-vis 1990, Aaron David Ross, Girl Unit, Helix, Matthew Stone, Massacooraman, Renato Dicent
THE UNITY OF ALL THINGS
Feature Film, Directed by Daniel Schmidt + Alexander Carver
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival, 2013
Original Soundtrack by Gatekeeper