atem

For this film work Drone Beuys collaborated with Till Meyn, in the TCU School of Music, to create a work that was displayed as part of a live performance. Till describes the piece and process as such:

ATEM derives its title from the German word for “breath,” which is a motto that appears in the sung
portions of the work. The piece was originally written as a collaborative project with Suki John, my good choreographer friend from across campus, and premiered as a stage work. I passed the music along to the two artists who make up the group Drone Beuys, Nick Bontrager and Adam Fung, and they ran with it, creating a film that utilizes drone footage they took in Iceland and in West Texas. The music is divided into four sections, each with different moods and compositional techniques. The fact that ATEM is also META spelled backwards points to the layers of complexity that pervade the piece.