[______] [____] [__] [_] [] for actor and electronics (2015)
The piece seeks to explore the relationship between words as phonetic sound objects and words as semantic, communicative devices, as well as how changes in dramatic action and speech affects the audience's perception of the acted-out role or 'character.' Some devices I am interested in using have to do with phrase repetition– where continuous repetitive utterances transfer the listener's attention back and forth between a word's meaning and a word's phonetic qualities; sentence deconstruction– where a phrase is deconstructed to individual words, then to syllables, then to individual letters, then reconstructed back again; speech with character change– the alteration in sound quality that the phrases take on based on the different dramatic 'characters' the actor embodies and the way the visual and auditory acting devices affect the audience's perception of repeated phrases; character juxtaposition– the investigation of the aesthetic of drastically juxtaposed rolechanges and quick emotional shifts and the way in which that affects how audience engages with the actor's character.
Received Honorary Mention Award at the 2016 MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival. Performed by Eleanor Claps, Matera, Italy.
Past Performances:
MATA Festival; New York, New York - May 2018 (USA premiere)
Dublin Music Current Festival; Dublin, Ireland - June 2017 (IR premiere)
MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival; Matera, Italy - December 2016 (EU premiere)
Tanna Schulich Hall, Montreal, QC March 2015 (World premiere)