07-05-14
Dissecting Adam: Ragdale 2014
03-11-14
About Dissecting Adam…
10-23-13
Dissecting Adam – full opera this Saturday
http://chicagoartistsmonth.org/dissecting-adam-improvised-opera
06-07-12
I, Norton (Gino Robair)/Dissecting Adam (Julia A. Miller)
06-07-12
About the improvised operas
In performance, both operas take the shape of an improvised collage that combine conduction (using hand cues), graphic scores, memory-based improvisational structures, and traditionally notated music. I, Norton is an open-ended project—a perpetual work-in-progress—with additions made for each performance. Dissecting Adam is in a middle phase of development, adding flesh to a metaphorical skeleton. For this workshop, elements and characters from both I, Norton and Dissecting Adam will be combined and juxtaposed, to reflect upon the larger whole.
Mise-en-scène
I, Norton
The opera takes place during the Emperor’s final moments, as he lay dying on a rain-soaked street. The sound and images in each performance act as a metaphor for his life flashing before his eyes—events overlap and appear in fragments, often repeated and exaggerated. As a result, there is no linear storytelling involved; portions of the Emperor’s life are revealed through each realization of the piece.
Dissecting Adam
The opera relates the existence of 111 year old Evelyn, whose life spans three centuries, having been born in 1899 and dying in 2011. Her story is interpreted by an ensemble of solo female voices. Generationally, the singers individually represent eras of Evelyn’s life, providing a skeletal frame for the exploration of the evolutionary archetype through her relationship to the male figures in her life (collectively known as “Adam”). Her lifetime provides the construct for artistic collaboration and exploration of other themes including (but not limited to) the word play on “adam” (human being, here translated as man) and the feminine “adamah” (ground, soil), and the ancient Chinese practice of using oracle bones for divination.
03-16-11
Articular Facet partners with Koval Distillery & Green Grocer!
We are proud to partner up with Chicago’s Koval Distillery and Green Grocer. Come by to Articular Facet 3 to check them out!
Articular Facet 3: LOFT DINNER
Sunday, March 20, 3 PM – Pop-Up Gallery (220 S Wabash, Chicago)
Featuring live music by Coppice, Andy Ortmann, and a psaltery trio by Noé Cuéllar, Julia Miller, and Andrew Furse.
03-14-11
Oracle Bones (score)
03-14-11
Oracle Bones for Articular Facet 2 & 3
03-06-11
Transistor podcast for Articular Facet 1
Visit the Transistor website to listen to The Roundtable, hosted by Rani Woolpert – an interview with Julia Miller, Coppice, and Geoff Hanssler, recorded on February 11th, 2011, about Articular Facet 1.
Photo courtesy of Transistor
Photo by Brian Sandstrom
02-25-11
“Tendon/Origin” by Julia Miller
Tendon is a graphic score printed on transparency and voile, for electric processed guitar, amplified mechanical typewriter, and audience. The typist becomes a structural and percussive element to the piece, and also documents the event through concrete poetry. The material will then be reutilized in subsequent performances.
