Joints for Novarina
(2000)
audio work for Theater
of the Ears, a play for recorded voice and electronic
marionette by Allen S. Weiss.
Text and visage : Valère Novarina Direction : Zaven
Paré and Allen S. Weiss
Set Design and Puppet : Zaven Paré Translation and
adaptation : Allen S. Weiss
Sound design :
voice/montage : Gregory Whitehead
joints : Christof Migone
backbeat/mastering : Scott Konzelmann at the Chop Shop
Puppeteer : Mark Sussman
Co-producer : Carol Bixler
Premiered at Cal Arts. Has shown in New York (La Mama E.T.C.),
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The in-betweens of the performed text are occupied byaudio miniatures,
sonic joints. Compact fragments made for another ear theater, these
are for the in-between of the ears, the ear-betweens. They are meant
to be misunderstood. These are Novarina's characters all passing
through, emitting a cry, a whimper, a silence and then scurrying
past. Once one is past you won't hear it again, another one is coming...
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