Artist Statement

Soundscape-media art

OneOne has been described as a masterwork of beauty and power – radical in its combination of innovative new media and ancient cultural knowledge. The human figures in OneOne shift through geometric virtual stone-form containers and suggest the presence of breath in the soundscape. This creates a pictorial representation of air movement inside the river stones, which are blown and drummed to make sound. Human figures become holographic when processed through the digital, the binary. Their movement establishes a hieroglyphic language of dance that synchronises with the sounds of nature, Taonga Puoro and the hollow stone flutes of the Maerewhenua River.
OneOne reflects an ancient elemental energy – ancestral memory unfolds in a digital cloak of projected bending light and sound. The Maerewhenua River stones are 23-25 million years old. They have inspired the artistic research and creation of OneOne in its delivery as interactive museum installation, expanded cinema transmission, architectural projection mapping and AV Liveset stage performance. Selected stones have been carefully scanned and 3D modelled to become spectral Waka, or vessels that transport the human figure in time and space. They evoke kinetic Polynesian navigation charts, cetaceans and islands. OneOne explores the twin acts of voyaging and coming to land.

• Daniel Belton, New Zealand. Daniel Belton and Good Company: Good Company Arts was founded by renowned artists Daniel Belton and Donnine Harrison in 1997. Good Company Arts creates live events, exhibitions and installations through the fusion of multiple art forms. [source: Vimeo] goodcompanyarts.com