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Interdisciplinary Arts Collective at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival | August 2019
an evening-length work about convergences and divergences, the spaces filled and the spaces left empty between bodies, sound, silence, sight, and personal and collective belief and experience.
“Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectral analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into all the basic frequencies and harmonics, with all their different loudness’s, and listen to them, each pure tone, but all at once...Say ‘rich, chocolaty goodness.’ ‘Rich, chocolaty goodness’... “No matter who’s talking, the different power spectra are the same, give or take a small percentage. So you and Rabbit have something in common now. More than that. Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person’s time line sideways till they all coincide. Then you’d have this big, God, maybe a couple hundred million chorus saying ‘rich, chocolaty goodness’ together and it would all be the same voice.”
- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
“We had had to use one another by words like spiders dangling by their mouths from a beam, swinging and twisting and never touching, and that only through the blows of my switch could my blood and their blood flow as one stream.”
- William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Choreographed and directed by Indigo Cook
excerpt - “God in Your Skin”
- poetry written and performed by Gray