Music for a theater production.  A production that never happened.  This is the stage time line we received and here is the musical interpretation we came up with...

VORTEX TIMELINE
DURATION ITEM DESCRIPTION

10:00 Walk-In -Audience arrives-
FunHouse is sleeping, projection used.
Soundscape made of laughter, radio sfx, actors
will improv vignettes.

:30 False-Start
(Activation)
False start w/ stage FX
Sparks, smoke, full activation follows.

:10 Activation Stage FX: smoke, fire, sparks, pyro.
Project magical, mystical pulses of energy
through the steel cladding and into house.

:20 Crystal Ball turns on Crystal ball flickers, pulsates, faster and
stronger. Theater reacts with matching
shockwaves: Warbles, bulges.

:15-:25 Inside Crystal Ball Visual: Vortex formation inside crystal ball, like
a tornado or hurricane swirl. Theater leans,
twists, contorts, rolls. Physical props (lamps,
etc..) begin to swing and fall.

:45-:60 Vortex Light objects are sucked into crystal ball
vortex: posters, balloons, etc...
“Sally” starts to break apart, she enters vortex.

:05 Crystal Ball pushes
forward
Crystal ball pushes forward, and then snaps
back into infinity (vanishes, on a line as frame
flies out, and glass shatters).

01:30 Vortex grows in
strength
People begin to get sucked in from audience.
Bigger objects get pulled in. Vortex engulfs
stage, then house. Reality bends and
stretches. Tunnel of light forms (warp-speed
like).

n/a DJʼs drop from ceiling Pyro curtain as DJʼs drop, music OUT.

NOTES:
“Sally” is a puppet-face female figure in set design, visible in center of stage.
Vortex and all special FX media are created using holographic projection.


Inselman