Big Eye; Land at Church City; Boys; Lemon Tree: New Work by Thalia Field, Rick Moody & Laura Vitale December 3, 2007

An evening of sound work and text by Thalia Field, Rick Moody and Laura Vitale in collaboration with others. The four pieces will run consecutively, to be followed by a Q&A with the artists. Big Eye is a radio work based on the short story “Story Material” by Thalia Field (from Incarnate: Story Material). This piece is an adaptation of the Cyclops episode from the Odyssey. Sound bed and engineering by Laura Vitale. Land at Church City is a poem adapted for radio, based on the poem of the same name by Thalia Field (from Incarnate: Story Material). Sound bed and engineering by Laura Vitale. Boys is a short short story by Rick Moody from the late nineties set to new and extant music by Meredith Monk. Lemon Tree is from a series of recent short short stories by Rick Moody all based more on sound and repetition than on conventional ideas of meaning. Sound bed and engineering by Laura Vitale. Thalia Field’s books include Point and Line (New Directions, 2000); Incarnate: Story Material (New Directions, 2004); and Ululu (Crown Shrapnel) (Coffee House, 2007). Performance works include “Melt”, “Seven Veils” and “After the Fall” all in collaboration with Lostwax Dance. Rick Moody is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir. His most recent publication is Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas. Laura Vitale graduated from Brown University with a degree in Visual Art. She has been working in radio production and sound design for four years. Her work has aired on WBEZ and appeared at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

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