A BRAND NEW WORLD: KILL THE ARTIST
A BRAND NEW WORLD: kill the artist invites audiences to Cool World, where nothing is hotter than being cool and everything is packaged and sold for anyone to buy. One man challenges this reality, and now he must stand trial for his incendiary acts of arson. You are the witnesses, the judges, and the jury. The fate of this Wildfire Man rests in your hands.
A BRAND NEW WORLD: kill the artist is a sound art composition (experimental & traditional music) and film score. Specifically composed for a performer (not exclusively a musician) A BRAND NEW WORLD is a six-part composition featuring foley art, timed events, a visual score and a floor plan for the composition’s onstage set-up. Each object onstage carries an instrumental element in relation to the film: the paper airplanes, the radios, the coffee grinder. Field recordings and audio clips are woven throughout the composition to sustain the narrative. The performance element is paramount adding another layer to engage the audience directly.
Ricardo receives a wake up call one day by an automated tele-monitor, peppering him with questions regarding his products (jingles) and asking him to turn himself in. Ricardo is labeled as a potential arsonist currently running a high fever. But he does not feel ill nor is told why he has been marked as such. Convinced he's done nothing controversial, Ricardo joins a roomful of accused vending machines awaiting a free trial for their alleged and unexplained acts of sedition. He is then processed through the over-commercialization of cool-tech culture with his fate placed in the hands of artists, accountants and consumers. Ricardo becomes lost in a nightmare of ad wrangling and soon becomes aware he could be extinguished for this offense.
