Transgression is a setting of Julia Bouwsma’s poem and reading. Transgression was born of a series of vivid dreams that Julia had while we were in residence at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Combining outcast remnants from previous projects, noises, and field recordings, the poet’s text is treated like musical material, one moment subsumed within the texture, the next resurfacing nearly alone in the foreground. Transgression is part of a series of settings of poems by Julia Bouwsma in a similar—sound collage—style as the proposed project.

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Christopher Preissing
Transgression
Sound Art, Sound Poetry
2013
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Transgression

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Journey la Divina Commedia was commissioned by Carmen Téllez and the University of Notre Dame with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For this production I composed a sound score and sound installation for the prologue and Inferno. The production took place on October 8-9, 2016 in Decio Hall at the University of Notre Dame. Featured performers include Fernando Araujo, baritone (Dante), Matthew Goodrich, actor (Virgil), Arwen Myers, soprano (Beatrice). The production was co-created by Anton Juan Kirkpatrick, Carmen-Helena Téllez, and Robin Kirkpatrick.

My role in the production was to create sound scores for the prologue and for the Inferno. The sound score in Inferno introduced the actors and performers. There were no singing pieces. I was motivated to work on this production because of my interests in world religions and ritual, and for the opportunity to work with director Anton Juan.

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SILOtwo combines words and bits of words with natural sounds (with the exception of a train that thunders through). Recorded at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2012.

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