Upon waking up in a hospital room, unaware of the days she lay in coma, Noa Guy’s first wish was to hear Beethoven’s string Quartet. Still oblivious to the hardships that lay ahead she was barely able to take in the music she had loved so much…
Ever since that fateful night on October of 1993, Noa guy has been trying to piece back her personal and professional life. Drops of Consciousness is the audio-visual diary of her recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury following a car crash. Each performance in the series represents one aspect of Noa’s healing process. It takes you through the tremors of being thrown beyond the limits of perception, emotions, feelings, and the composition of reality.
The narrative is non-linear and at times seem surreal to the outsider. The purity and pain of that first gasp for air mingle with the memory of the string quartet Noa wrote in 1993 to produce a fragmented aural imprint of her long journey. As the eyes get acquainted to the dim light, the estranged world that looked at her from the windows of her hospital room slowly leaks in. Bits and pieces of reality make up the visual memory of her ordeal and together, the seemingly incompatible become curiously inseparable.
DOC is collaboration between live music, digital manipulation, and visuals. Alon Leventon and Noa Guy improvise live, on stage. Noa generates all the sounds, by singing, breathing, playing acoustic instruments, as well as synthesizer. Alon picks the sounds that appeal to him in that moment and samples them on a computer. Using several dedicated music programs, he transforms the computer into a musical instrument. The result is a cathedral of sounds that is being built during the performance. The entire experience is complemented by close-to-real-time video sequences.
The weaving of auditory and visual inputs opens the door to a world of unique sensory experience, balanced on the thin sliver between solid reality and abstract self.
