Collected Animals

On February 24th, Coral Morphologic, Borscht Corp., and III Points present ‘Coral Orgy’, a collaborative site specific performance with Animal Collective at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center on Miami Beach as part of the 10th Borscht Film Festival (Borscht Diez). ‘Coral Orgy’ is an audiovisual meditation on the secrets behind the sexual reproduction of corals, and an invocation towards the human quest of unlocking them. Avey Tare, Geologist and DEAKIN will perform an hour of new music inspired by the reefs while Coral Morphologic projects a cosmic world of fluorescent coral inside the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center performance using its twelve 4k projectors to map all five of Gehry’s sails. The audience is free to explore various experiences throughout the building, including a Bermuda triangle ritual by Otto von Schirach and a special guest, private screenings of short films, new virtual, augmented, aural, and physical realities by Hot Sugar, Jacolby Satterwhite, Mayer\Leyva, and more. Before the performance Coral Morphologic films will play outside on the 7,000 square foot projection wall in Soundscape Park. The Soundscape Park activations begin at 6 PM, doors open at 7 PM.

Tickets on sale now

$40 until February 14th

$60 until day of show

$80 at the door

Through this event, Coral Morphologic and Animal Collective aim to highlight the groundbreaking scientific work done on coral reproduction by the non-profits Coral Restoration Foundation (USA), SECORE (GER), and Project Coral (UK).

ill be here with my CA friend amber : )

ok WHOM is on boot duty for this ??

crikit wrote:

ok WHOM is on boot duty for this ??

Where's DaD when you need 'em?

"None of us live in the same place, but around the top of this year, we each started sending around ideas to each other... But we didn't know what would work, and we hadn't really seen the footage yet either," says Weitz, detailing the creative difficulties posed by geographic distance. "We set up a Dropbox folder that we could share with Coral Morphologic, and then they uploaded all the various clips and things they're thinking of using. And then the three of us — Josh and Dave and I — we got together at Dave's house, and we set up a projector and we threw all the clips into one long loop, and then we just spent the weekend jamming on all the various ideas and picked out the ones that we thought worked the best."

The band will convene with Coral Morphologic in Miami this week to rehearse the event, no doubt to fine-tune the synchronization between the music and the mélange of coral sex that will unfold around them. As for what Animal Collective fans and coral voyeurs can expect, Weitz and Dibb say Coral Orgy harks back "to a kind of older vibe with [Animal Collective], or a more ambient approach to things."

"There's a little bit of singing. Dave sings on a few tracks, but it's not like it's a really crazy, vocal-heavy set. It's a lot of instrumental stuff, and the vocal stuff has a few peaks, but it's definitely not the highlight or the focal point of the music," Dibb says. "It's really meant to be like a jam as much as possible."