Adelic Penguins

Originally commissioned by the Sony Corporation of Japan and performed live on the JumboTRON a fourteenstory TV set at the Expo in Tsukuba Japan Adelic Penguins is a collaboration between Fitzgerald artist Paul Garrin and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto who also appears as a performer Structured in six segments this technical tourdeforce is a pyrotechnic fusion of sound and image in which the dynamic visual imagery fully complements and heightens Sakamotos staccato percussive score Fitzgerald and Garrin merge terrestrial and interplanetary worlds in which Sakamotos figure becomes an integral part of the landscape Set aloft in the surreal world of the artists invention Sakamoto dances floats and walks through a hyperkinetic universe