The Instrument
Alkaline Birds
Alkaline Birds exist in a paradise-ruin; a place for those whose tribes have gone extinct. Their existential pulse; primal and delicate. Displaced bodies in an ageless arc of time, moving within an obscure dream; reborn, hungry. Abandoned and unrestrained, traveling in time as infants, adults and animals. A cave of sounds and stories, welded into a piercing, demanding present.

duration: 55 minutes
direction: Maya M. Carroll
choreography and dance: Julyen Hamilton, Maya M. Carroll
electroacoustic installation and performance: Roy Carroll
light : Emese Csornai

premiered at Plateau Gallery, Greenhouse Berlin, December 14, 2014

further Performances:
2016 Oct 06 | Festival of New Dance, St John's, CA
2015 Dec 18 | Dock 11, Berlin, DE
2015 Dec 17 | Dock 11, Berlin, DE



work list

Temporal Terrestrial Series
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2024
TERRA 5
Personas
Eyes held wild horizons
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2023
What Waves What Lands
Interview with a Body
Illustrations
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2022
Eternal Returns
Landscape Songs
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2021
Spin Tuner
Descending Dreams
of a Transparent Body

INTERBEING
ONETIME
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2020
Phantom My Love
Temporal, Terrestrial 8
Temporal, Terrestrial 7
ALL NATURE
Field Scores
Confinement
Temporal, Terrestrial 6
Encapsulation
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2019
Temporal, Terrestrial 5
Bloodsong
Temporal, Terrestrial 4
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2018
Temporal, Terrestrial 3
Temporal, Terrestrial 2
Temporal, Terrestrial 1
She Stone Sea
The Light Beneath Reaches
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2017
Peer
Ingesture
Amar
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2016
Night Glass Day Mirror
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2015
Eyes on Mars
Score 4
Instrumental Bodies
Unraveled Heroes
Tone Undertow
Tide Visible
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2014
Alkaline Birds
While House
Ten Horizons
Tendership
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2013
Fader
Dreadnought
Snake
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2012
Exercise
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2011
The Needle
Magic Valley
Undergrowth
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2010
Transforma
Hide
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2009
Closed Room
A Living Thing
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2008
Frost
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2007
Mem
Shlomot
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2006
Girl Bites Hand
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Maya M Carroll earlier work
Umpf (2006)
Numas Dream (2006)
Once (2005)
Bruno (2004)