| NEWS | VIDEOS | SOUNDS | PUBLICATIONS | BIBLIOGRAPHY | CURATORIAL | TEACHING | CV | LINKS | CONTACT

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


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 adaptatio : Allen S. Weiss

Sound design
voice/montage: Gregory Whitehead
joint : 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.), Paris, Avignon.



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...