Hand2Mouth Theater – Psychic Utopia

This experimental, interactive theater piece was created by the cast, based on dozens of interviews with current and former residents of communes in the Pacific NW.  My sound score used only the sounds of the human voice – from chanting, singing and toning to whispering, hissing and glossolalia.  Vocal recordings were sampled, looped, filtered and processed to create a wide range of textures, from shimmering drones to New Age melodies, at times merging with the live voices of the actors.  Tones emerged from a glowing “sound box” in the middle of the performance area and expanded out to fill the room on a four-channel system.