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FULL Your Call… (Kevin Jones) London 2015 Hai-‐Ting Chinn, Lisa Coates
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Your Call…
- Composer: Jones Kevin
- Libretto: Kevin Jones Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Kings Place Hall, London, UK, Leaky Boat Productions
- Recorded: August 9, 2015
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Hai-‐Ting Chinn, Lisa Coates
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Choreographer: Joy Kellman
- Stage Director: Kevin Jones
- Stage Designer: Hannah Wasileski
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête
- Date Published: 2015
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Genesis
YOUR CALL… grew out of my work with the CreST (Creative Speech Technology) research project at the University of York. CreST was a collection of people from industry, science and the arts, all with an interest in the voice. We have shown concert and semi-‐staged workshop performances of YOUR CALL… at the Woodend Gallery, Scarborough (as a part of Articulate, the first ever concert of music for human and synthetic voices), the National Centre for Early Music, York (as a part of the York Festival of Ideas), Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, NY and the University of North Texas, Denton. Part 1 of YOUR CALL… was presented as a part of the Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2014.
Synopsis
YOUR CALL… is a music-‐theatre work that explores the intersection of humans and technology. Using synthetic voice technology, this piece pits one woman, played by two mezzo-‐sopranos, against a gaggle of synthetic voices on her phone. Lost in a comically surreal digital world where truth and meaning are always in flux, she struggles to understand and be understood.
Her phone rings. She answers. Another annoying automated call, a synthetic voice jabbering away. But the voice seems to know more than it should. Then there are more and more voices, and she finds herself plunged into a horde of synthetic characters with an agenda all their own; if only she can figure out what that is. YOUR CALL… uses technology to explore the rocky terrain of our relationship to that technology and the ways in which it is an ever more intimate, sometimes intrusive presence in our lives.