http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHAgS5hIBgCollaborator and composer Jin-Hwa Choi and Lindsey Bailey have written a poem set to music. This piece will be performed as spoken word from inside the mouth of a giant octopus. The octopus will be created out of fabric and draped over the front of the building and stairs of the Troutt Theatre. (http://www.nashvillefringe.org/Festival_Schedule.html)
I'm thinking underwater inspiration ...Weird tremors, awkward and bubbling sounds, classic opera pieces too ... The poem is going to be about love and how each of the tendrils of the Octopus represent a different facet of love ...Think dark. Melancholy. Sad. (- Lindsey Bailey, from one of the brainstorming emails between Jin-Hwa Choi and Ms. Bailey)
This music is composed for the integrative art performance piece, The Octopus Lament by Lindsey Bailey. For illustrating various images related with octopus, water and Ms. Bailey's inspirational ideas, I mixed several sound material such as sea and water sound, recorded sound from real daily life, live performance sound, some electronic sound samples and so on.
In the Music for The Octopus Lament(2011), I tried to express one person's dream-like journey of underwater. In the beginning, sea and the Octopus attract somebody and then he walks into them. He is going to see the fantastic scene of enchanted underwater and the Octopus. However, he realizes that he is captured by them and finally he is not able to escape from their dark and irresistible power of sea and the Octopus.
- Performance
SIDESHOW FRINGE: Nashville's Progressive Performing Arts Event
October.1.2011 Belmont Troutt Theatre, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
Megan Kelley, with music by JinHwa Choi
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