An experimental, interactive theater piece created by the cast from dozens of interviews with current and former residents of communes in the Pacific Northwest. The sound score used exclusively the human voice — chanting, singing, toning, whispering, hissing, glossolalia. Vocal recordings sampled, looped, filtered, and processed into a wide range of textures: shimmering drones, New Age melodies, merging at times with the live voices of the actors.

Tones emerged from a glowing sound box at the center of the performance area, expanding outward through a four-channel system to fill the room.

New Expressive Works, Portland OR — 2017