Still photo of Live Art Performance October 2007, Theater for the New City:

A FEW WORDS FROM MY INTESTINE.

I am scoring THE MOTHER SYMPHONY for 7 musicians, a robot virtual orchestra, a wearable computer and a Transmedia Soprano conductor wearing an Intestine Costume.

 

photo by Shell Sheddy

The communal eating of the body of God is a theme found in many religions.
In my Opera Symphony I will play Corn Mother, the Penobscot cultural
heroine who allowed herself to be dismembered and eaten so that her people
could live.
The Mother Symphony is a critique of modern consumerism and gluttony. I
use hunger as metaphor for abusive power relationships. With drawings,
costumes, music, projected scores, texts and orchestration I show how the
human body evolved. Both Native Americans and scientists agree that all
life forms are descended from one organism. The Penobscot people of Maine
called her "Corn Mother;" evolutionary Biologists call her,
“Thermaplast,” the heat loving, sulpher eating modal bacter that lived in
hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor 3.6 billion years ago.
Mother Symphony will underline the processes that transform food and water
into life. I will condemn the culture of death that draws people into
fatal addictions and self-negating choices.
The Human Intestine contains 100 trillion microorganisms all coexisting and
working together. The diversity, fragility and ecology of the GI tract is
something ignored by most Americans. The human intestine is a fragile
environment. Each person is the steward of his or her internal ecosystem.
As one doctor has said, “the American diet leads to American diseases.”
Using paintings, films, text and orchestration I will conjure ancient
organisms whose descendants we are. Reaching back into early earth history
and the co-evolution of plants and animals, I will make a visionary plea to
the healing world of plants and I will invoke the ancient Penobscot mythic
animals and heroes to help me generate an iconography of self
transformation.
In this era of post- post- feminism the time is right for a fully
orchestrated multimedia symphony.

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CONTRIBUTE

I have to raise 20,000 dollars for musicians fees, rehearsal fees, and materials to produce THE MOTHER SYMPHONY

All donations are tax deductible. Your name (or mother's name) will be listed on the Honor Roll in the Program.

 

Did you ever see my "Rap Shoes" in action? I developed them for disabled children. Music is generated by the movement of your feet. This is the kind of wearable computer I will be using in the Mother Symphony. Here, watch the Rap Shoes in a contemporary classical setting: Dark Harbor for Sneakers and Chamber Trio...Phoebe Legere