This selection was created as a hypothetical jazz band of a mysterious and seductive character from a previous Wooster Group production. In order to feel the beating heart of a living moment sometimes I will utilize improvisational musical techniques. The uncertainty and continual force of having to make a choice is impinted directly onto the sound, giving the audience a direct experience rather than a representation or description. Generally, these improvisational heart beats will pulse in and out of a scene, x-rays into the complex psychology of decision making. The upcoming production climaxes with a quiet exchange between two old acquaintances. As the dialogue is understated at this moment, the sound will be a psychological counterpoint of the uncertain cacophony of divergent interests.

Chaosmopolitan (2007) [excerpt]

This musical selection is the only extended moment in the Wooster Group's production of Vieux Carre in which the action focuses meditatively on the protagonist narrator. In the upcoming Pinter piece, there is also a character with whom the audience spends focused meditative moments. Likewise, I am also going to incorporate string instruments plucked with the fingers, as it creates an intimate sense of space that is at the scale of a single person. In this production, however, the focused meditative moments are almost like timelapses, so I am going to extend the technique by having 5 finger-played string instruments simultaneously focus on an aspect of the activity and each slowly develop its own trajectory, so that by the end there is a sense of multiple activities having happened but in no particular order in a nonlinear impressionistic experience of time and action- a moment both of and for meditation.

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