Bedlam

Streaming video - 2005

Starting point for this work was a performance text for five performers. I decided that the original text dialogue should be recorded and that I would then translate the text associatively into visual imagery. Parallel to this, the composer created a soundtrack from collected material related to the means inherent in the text. There are three levels in this work: the spoken text, the sound composition and the visual imagery, which were then synchronised together.. The original version is conceived as an installation for 5 synchronized projections on 5 large screens set in a semi-circle in front of the viewers. The single-screen version was subsequently produced from that material. - Robert Darroll Soundtrack by Sean Reed with a grant f...rom the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.. more