The Chocolate Factory (www.chocolatefactorytheater.org) continues its Spring 2010 Season with Vortex, a new performance by Joel Mellin. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased in advance via theatermania at (212) 352-3101 or on the web @ www.chocolatefactorytheater.org.
Featuring the music of Joel Mellin and performances by Catherine Hedberg (sampled) and Faurot / Paulson, and with Victoria Lo, Vortex is a series of ambitious works presented in a Vortitorium - an experimental, fully immersive, three-dimensional audio environment developed by Mellin.
Vortex includes three debut compositions encompassing the breadth of Mellin's collaborations: a work for computer and pemade w/ Victoria Lo; a collaborative piece for voice and computer featuring vocalist Catherine Hedberg and a performance specific installation by Jeff Mellin; and an audio tornado composed and controlled in real-time, intersecting with a parallel performance, Plow Like Hell, by Holly Faurot and Sarah H. Paulson. These compositions are composed and scored during the performance with custom software written specifically by Mellin for three-dimensional audio.
The program will conclude with the New York debut of A Passing Thought, a piece for piano, bass harmonica, computer and jegogunk (an instrument designed by Mellin). This work orginally debuted at the 2009 Dublin Fringe Festival with the performance of Rex Levitates Dance Company's 12 Minute Dances.
Vortex includes three debut compositions encompassing the breadth of Mellin's collaborations: a work for computer and pemade w/ Victoria Lo; a collaborative piece for voice and computer featuring vocalist Catherine Hedberg and a performance specific installation by Jeff Mellin; and an audio tornado composed and controlled in real-time, intersecting with a parallel performance, Plow Like Hell, by Holly Faurot and Sarah H. Paulson. These compositions are composed and scored during the performance with custom software written specifically by Mellin for three-dimensional audio.
The program will conclude with the New York debut of A Passing Thought, a piece for piano, bass harmonica, computer and jegogunk (an instrument designed by Mellin). This work orginally debuted at the 2009 Dublin Fringe Festival with the performance of Rex Levitates Dance Company's 12 Minute Dances.
