My Voice Has An Echo In It

A six-hour performance that combines live music, text, and video in a fully enclosed 24′ x 6′ capsule made of two-way mirrors. All performers are completely confined within this freestanding, soundproof box. The audience can see them inside, but the performers see only their reflections in the two-way mirrors, which stretch off infinitely in both directions. Audience members can listen to the performance through headphones stationed at windows in the soundproof box and are free to come and go whenever they please. This EMPAC-commissioned work calls into question the very nature of live events, with all sounds created by the performers captured, processed, and stored by a computer before being played back for the listener after a few seconds delay. The audience experiences the performance both as a live spectacle and a disembodied record of what has just been presented.