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Lost Souls of Saturn—Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa—combines music, storytelling, and technology to create a unique, immersive performance environment as part of The Met’s Sonic Cloisters.
This performance was filmed inside Ólafur Elíasson's installation ‘Life’ at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, where he flooded the museum interior and filled it with plants. The audio is presented as an ambisonic binaural recording of ambient music, processed field recordings of the museum grounds, and the live amplified sound in the museum’s interior. When we left the shooting of this video on July 15, 2021, we saw some more flooding, as we drove through water and rocks brought into the streets of Basel by the Rhine river overflowing after a summer of heavy rainfall.
In collaboration with Nordstern Basel and Fondation Beyeler, Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa make their live debut as Lost Souls of Saturn. Installation artist Ernesto Neto provided the environment in Zurich’s main train station.