MIVOS QUARTET

Olivia De Prato | violino

Joshua Modney | violino

Victor Lowrie | violino

Mariel Roberts | violincello

Samson Young > director, composer and performer

The Anatomy of a String Quartet is an installation that affords insights into musicians, as if through a microscope. Sensory equipment determines the musicians’ heartbeats, pulse rates and brain waves; small gestures, movements of the eyes and effects on the skin are also measured. Video artist Samson Young takes this data and weaves it into a video installation, rendering visible and audible these movements of the musicians, which are normally invisible to the human eye ...