Camille Norments Is an artist based in
America, she focuses mainly on multi media
displays or art. Her works explore
the relationships between visual and sonic sensory systems.
The intent of her live performance art is to
engage the audience both physically and
physiologically. To do this she
manipulates the audience’s senses in a way that creates tension
between what
the viewer is both seeing and hearing. Basically she aims to create tension
through contradictory
sensory experiences, such as: looking in a mirror but not seeing your
reflection
or feeling a sound rather than hearing it.
Live performance is Norment’s preferred art
form to work with; her artistic goal is
always to push the limits as well as
her audiences in the hope of creating something new
whether it be an experience
for the viewer or a new sound.
In Norments most recent sound art project ‘Toll’ she s used a glass armonica to
create
her live performances along side a violinist and electric guitar. The
glass armonica was
discovered in the late 18th century by Franz
Mesmer who was a German Physician.
He used the armonica in his practice on
patients, as it seemed to mesmerize them as he
was hypnotizing them. The
practice didn’t go on for long, as reports came through that
patients were
going mad from exposure to the sounds created by the armonica.
The claims of patients going mad were never
proven.
During the live performances the sheer
power of the armonica take the audience a-back,
the sounds seems to fill the
space and even though the audience can see the armoinca
right in front of them
the sounds seems to be coming from everywhere. One member of
an audience
Norments played for even went as far as to say that the performance
‘penetrated
your soul’.
http://www.norment.net
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