From Silvia’s Website blurb:

“Inspired by One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

This unique show combines instruction based theatre, binaural sound and poetic writing to create an interactive show where Audience members perform for each other following a set of instructions. Choosing between Beginners, Intermediate and Heroes the participants decide the level of involvement they want to have in the show and abandon themselves to a predetermined script to create the village of Macondo”

My input into this project consisted of creating the music and sound design, trying to give life to the various thematic elements Silvia wanted in the show. I worked on keeping a unity across the different types of music, as required by the different contexts in which the music needed to be heard during the show. For example, the main tune was a cumbia inspired instrumental track, which is heard several times in two transformed versions before being heard in the original arrangement at the end. That is because I wanted to respect Silvia’s ideas of a morphing-show that gradually from nothing starts building up and taking shape. The cumbia inspired song being the chosen main tune for Macondo, it appears earlier in different moments, like as if in disguise.

I have made orchestral arrangements, a dance-floor song, the cumbia folk song, several sound designs using choirs recordings processed electronically, drones and various natural element, which helped me construct an ever-changing world of imagery built by the creations of Silvia’s on stage, which often alternated between solo moments with few participants and groups action.

The sound was streamed from three wireless transmitters into 100 wireless headphones worn by the audience and amounted to 12 separate channels of audio. That was a complex task for the sound design to be kept consistent and entertaining across 12 different simultaneous perspectives.

The show has been successfully performed at Rich Mix in September 2016 and went through several rewriting, currently ongoing.

 

Here is a link to a video trailer about the show, when still was in a draft and development form. You can hear part of my music only at the very beginning and the end. The middle section is just a collection of placeholder for inspiration, we have put during the rehearsals (which could still be interesting to hear to know more about my creative development process).