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No Man's Land Trailer from colliderscope on Vimeo.

COLLIDERSCOPE is the  audio-visual collaboration of  animation artist Zennor Alexander and Scottish/Burmese electronica producer  and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing. 

Colliderscope  performed thier "live cinema" show "No Man's Land" , combining projected 3D animation, downtempo electronica soundtrack and live vocals, in cinema, gallery and theatre spaces in New Zealand in 2009 -

"Stylish, elegant and sinister...obscure electronica, minimal beats and exotic voice merge seamlessly with animated visuals to evolve into a multi-media artwork" (NEW ZEALAND HERALD)

In an ethereal world between worlds, alien lullabies envelop and mesmerize in the spaces between dreaming and waking.  Lush, soulful, dark and minimal, this is leftfield downbeat at its most down.  Wayward synths, ghosstly strings, aparse beats, textural atmospherics,  warped beauty enfolds you in an unsettling and compelling "No Man's Land"  .

"...seduces, scares and embraces you all at once..."  (International DJ  magazine)

Colliderscope's composer and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing has sung and played with many strange and wonderful pop-art-rock combos including the baked-bean throwing performance artists Zen Abbatoir, and a 40 piece avant-garde choir.

While living in Brighton, and inspired by fellow Brightonian Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes, she started producing  her own haunting, laptop electronica, and cooking up ideas for theatrical, cinema style performances.  One of her early tracks, "Tamin Sah Pade" sung in a fledgling attempt at Burmese pronunciation,  was discovered on Myspace by the BBC world music DJ Charlie Gillett, and included on his internationally released  compilation album "Sound of the World 2007".

"...a stunningly lush, pulsating slab of whispered electronica instruments, with a melody that follows you around for days."(FLY GLOBAL MUSIC MAGAZINE)

Fiona spent two years living on Waiheke Island,New Zealand,  developing the audio visual collaboration "Colliderscope" with animation artist Zennor Alexander.  Their live show "No Man's Land" was rated by the New Zealand Herald as one of the highlights of the Auckland Fringe Festival, music videos were screened on Sky TV's Arts Channel, and a documentary feature on Fiona's work was shown on  New Zealand's national TV channel. 

Now back in her native Scotland, Fiona is releasing the  EP "Songs from No Man's Land", and performing the audio-visual "live cinema" show, with a chilling electronica soundtrack, Colliderscope's projected animations,  and a live vocals performance.

"...hybrid going on mutant"  (The Guardian)

UPCOMING GIGS -

MAY 16TH:ROXY ARTHOUSE, EDINBURGH.  (TEN TRACKS/FATCAT LABEL NIGHT)

MAY 30TH: GLASGOW TRAMWAY. (JOHN CAGE'S MUSICIRCUS EVENT)

JUNE 26TH: ROXY ARTHOUSE, EDINBURGH. - "IS THIS A TEST?" AV NIGHT FEATURING CENTRAL STATION ARTISTS

THE REAL COLLIDERSCOPE!

Explanation of colliderscope
The large experiment takes place in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a circular 27 km long underground magnetic tunnel smashing protons against each other with extreme force. This gives conditions similar to those that prevailed in our Universe shortly after Big Bang, and new particles can be produced in collisions.  What you see on the front face of the Institute is a transmission of particle collision as they are seen by one of the accelerator's four detectors. The signal is reproduced with a broad spectrum of tones and varied impact strength as if the accelerator was a kind of giant musical instrument. Maybe you can see the work as a kind of visual translation of the music that sounded at the birth of the Universe.
The artwork is created by the artists Christian Skeel and Morten Skriver in collaboration with physicists Clive Ellegaard and Troels C. Petersen. NBI Colliderscope is a satellite exhibition from Esbjerg Kunstmuseum.

My disciplines
3D animation, audio-visual performance, music, voice, composition, sound, electronica

Location
ABERDEENSHIRE

Website address
www.colliderscope.com