Taffety compiled a trailer out of early rehearsal footage. I think it has a nice, rough kinetic to it.
The play deals in themes of loneliness, desperation, the shifting idea of community in the technological age, etc. It is a surreal survey from Shakespeare to modern U.S. (and also Japanese) culture. The script is distinctly post-modern and fragmented in a skillful way. So we felt the rhythmic aspect needed to have a kind of a subtly dubby, aleatoric, hall-of-mirrors quality. Everything slightly tilted. All the music has a slightly shadow-dappled characteristic.
Some of the music is melancholic and melodic. Some is frantic and noisy or abstract.
We will release this work as a compiled soundtrack called "Sorry You're Here."
The title is taken from an actual common greeting in suicide support usenet groups.
There is also an unrelated full-length song album and a 12" EP on the way soon.
I am enjoying my SSonya sabbatical!
- c