string quartet, actors, live audio-visual media - 45 min.
Notes:
FLiGHT was a collaboration between Roger Reynolds (composer), the JACK Quartet, Ross Karre (visual design), and Paul Hembree (audio design). It is an evening length work on the history of humankind’s aspiration for and ultimate attainment of the ability to fly. At its core is a musical composition for string quartet. Additional dimensions include real-time computer processing and spatialization of sound, the integrated projection of flight-related images on multiple distributed surfaces, and the reading of an assembled text by a quartet of actors. The completed FLIGHT lasts 80 minutes, constituting an immersive experience: music, the voices of those who shaped the history of powered flight, a montage of images from ancient times to the present and from varied cultures, an integrated dialogue from four actors presenting the revelatory words written/spoken by those who, throughout history, imagined, attempted, experienced, and assessed flight.
Trailer:
Roger Reynolds: FLiGHT from Ross Karre on Vimeo.