Part I (Parts II and III are in preparation for 2002)

Here I am using light, shadow, video projections, and music to create a sustained poetic narrative concerned with the earth's decomposition. In the excerpts from the live performance presented here you will see a vocalist (myself), a dancer moving a large canvas, and video images projected onto the stage by an offstage projectionist who moves thorugh the audience. The video projections are based on images I recorded during a flood, in which a little creek became a large stream, flooding the landscape and transforming it into a vaste waterscape. The music consists of prerecorded vocal parts I created with my voice and reverb effects, and live vocal material I sang during the performance. Each vocal part --prerecorded and live--has an individual charater that creates a sustained cloud of sound that sometimes clashes and sometimes harmonizes with its musical surroundings. In this work I try to show not only the tragic aspects but also the strange (and threatening!) beauty of the earth's transformation; I hope in this way to provoke in the audience thoughts about global warming and its consequences.

--Nina Goede