projects
transfer(to):
Spring 2016
transfer(to): is a series of public art micro-performances that will take place in and around the elaborate arteries of Chicago's public transit system in the Spring of 2016. This commission-based project challenges Chicago composers to utilize environs as part of their compositional process. transfer(to): is supported in part by the Chicago Department of Special Events and Cultural Affairs (DCASE).
Celebration
Summer 2015
Set on the eve of an anniversary party held in an elite London restaurant, Harold Pinter’s Celebration explores the bizarrely acute and darkly hilarious condition of human disconnection. This theatrical event imposes Pinter’s restaurant onto an experimental performance of Mauricio Kagel’s music, exacerbating the tensions in human relationships and the ensuring existential disposition.
Macbeth
Spring 2015
btp members John Corkill and Alex Monroe teamed up with director Scott Westerman for the Artistic Home's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, which garnered the pair a Jeff Award Nomination for Sound Design. Westerman's dystopian setting for Macbeth was matched by a surreal but visceral soundscape--the product of a slew of traditional, found, and created percussion instruments.
matchgirl
Spring 2014
Brought to life at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, workshop performances of matchgirl combined the Pulitzer Prize-winning score of David Lang's the little match girl passion with an eerie staging of sculpture, movement, and theatre. Traditional percussion sounds from the score were embedded into the setting of the work, blurring the lines between music, theatre, and visual art.
?corporel: having a body
Fall 2016
Dubbed "an evening of experimental percussion theatre,"
?corporel: having a body is a night of works written for percussion that address the use of the human body to not only produce sound, but also communicate through other artistic mediums. In the case of some of the programmed works, the inclusion of theatre, dance, or visual art is implied by the composer. In others, these elements have been produced by the performers and director Scott Westerman.
The Silence That Follows
Summer 2016
The Silence That Follows is a love song to Harold Pinter where a married couple must come to terms with their broken door. Commissioned by dado, text by Elliot Baker, and sound by beyond this point, this work is the first in a series of artistic ventures that seek to discover and develop the intersections formed from inception to performance while workshopping an original work.