General Documentation

Niveau de neige / La région virtuelle || Patrick Blenkarn + Laure Winants || early image and programming tests

The following is the very first improvisation test on what would become the basis for this project—shot on break while in rehearsals for another project. The music has no pre-conceived elements; it’s just a very first impression of what would it be like to play music to Snow’s film. I don’t think the work’s composition will be much like what I played here, nor will it use the same instrument and sound at all. Please watch the first 2min — and with a bit of generosity!

Words from a Tongue We Are Losing by Laure Winants (documentation by Patrick Blenkarn) — A geosensitive encounter giving rise to several lines of research, the first of which is Sensing Landscape, an experimental series exploring the phenomena of light and color in the Arctic.

Reference materials

La région centrale by Michael Snow (1971)

Snow levels from Golden Eye (N64), Metal Gear Solid (PlayStation), and Halo 3 (Xbox)

Documentation featuring Laure Winants and Patrick Blenkarn on Svalbard

asses.masses (2023) || Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim || A large scale video game performance for the stage about donkeys trying to get their jobs back.

View only 2min beginning at 03:30:00

2021 (2026) || Patrick Blenkarn, Cole Lewis, and Sam Ferguson || A video game performance for the stage about caring for a dying loved one across political divides.

View only 2min beginning at 0:28:40