Many Dawns

"Many Dawns," a collaboration between Dan Gorelick and Andy Rolfes, is an immersive audio-visual piece that explores the present moment – how we exist at the crossroads of many different time-scales. The piece depicts a world with dilated time, featuring extended dawns, dusks, and accelerated days. The soundscape, created live with cascading cello loops and live-coded sequences, incorporates field recordings and real-time air traffic control radio chatter from around the world. The visuals, generated in real-time with Unreal Engine respond to the soundscape with a joystick and Rokoko motion capture glove. Our human experience is just a fleeting moment in the greater geological time-scale, and the piece creates a space to collectively reflect on the impact to and our responsibility to the planet. "Many Dawns" has been performed at Gray Area in San Francisco and Zerospace in Brooklyn, NY.