I am finally going through my documentation from the last year!
Here is a 5 minute clip of Dislike, which was premiered at REDCAT’s 2013 NOW Festival! It features Free Reed Conspiracy and The Peoples Microphony Camerata.
DISLIKE is a 21st century operatic documentation of a unique repository for the darker emotions swirling around the Internet. The sinister side of online anonymity and open-forum communication is examined by deconstructing 24-hours worth of comments on the most “disliked” video on YouTube. Taken as a singular libretto, the result is a surreal text full of anger, naivety, homophobia, desperation, and mischief. Meanwhile, eight accordions create a lush, post-ambient sonic environment inspired by a time-stretched interpretation of that video’s song. The resulting dichotomy depicts the Jungian shadow of the digital collective unconscious.
- James Barry
- Daniel Corral, director
- Leah Harmon
- Diana Hobstetter/Mrs. Hobbs
- Chris Porter
- Jason Savvy
- Christoffer Schunk
- Max Wanderman
- Cynthia Paige Aaron
- Andrew Choate
- Rachel Finkelstein
- Michele Jaquis
- Andrea Sáenz
