Angelo Scott
Traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, and Molalla (Portland, OR)
Omni Rail
World Premiere
Access notes: Omni Rail reaches high volume levels. Earplugs are available at the front desk. The performance occurs on three different floors in an open room. The second floor Mezzanine is only reachable by stairs or a private elevator, which can be accessed by requesting assistance at the front desk. The third floor is accessible by stairs or a public elevator.
There is an additional viewing room in the Mediatheque space (on the ground floor in the Atrium) with works made in collaboration with the video artist Lenny Beach. The viewing room features projections on three walls with one central livestream of the performance, and two videos on the left and right walls that allow viewers to encounter the different floors from the ground level. Seating is available and the doors will remain open during the performance. Audiences are encouraged to move around freely.
DESCRIPTION
Omni Rail is an ambisonic, walk-through instrument, designed from the stairwells, railings and cable system that supports the architecture of Portland's historic 511 Building. From within PNCA’s Atrium and Mezzanine, the instrument is its own speaker system, both metaphorically and physically. Omni Rail will be activated by an ensemble in collaboration with choreographer Muffie Delgado Connelly, and with project support and mentorship from Zachary D'Agostino.
The music composition is an arrangement of notes already contained within the building's architecture. The sounds are carried throughout the open room and balcony floors of PNCA as the instrument amplifies itself. Musicians strike, bow, or slide the instrument, engaging with movement artists as they traverse the site in a conversation with proximity, intimacy, and the unseen, blurring the boundaries between perceivable roles as musician and bodily instrumentation, emergence, catalyst, and reaction.
Following this performance, the interactive exhibition will remain on view until September 14, 2025.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Angelo Scott is an interdisciplinary artist from the South currently living in Portland, OR and completing their BFA in Intermedia at PNCA. Their sonic compositions build shifting layers of melodic sentiments from splintering phrases, emphasizing irregularities in live sampling, synthesis, and insisting upon fleeting swells of emotive expression as a passage through intricate patterns in overwhelming soundscapes.
Scott received their Associate of the Arts from Linn-Benton Community College in 2019, where they worked as the photo editor for The Commuter. While living in Corvallis, Oregon, they began operating in DIY sonic arts communities, co-organizing and curating installation and video works for Corvallis Experiments In Noise's What is Noise? festivals. In 2016, they co-initiated and co-created Sponsored Trash, an ongoing performance arts collective. They currently perform solo sound compositions as Tyronza and participate in improvisational ensembles, create video projections, and make collaborative CRT installations for interactive music events.