For several years I collaborated with Michael Counts on large scale opera-performance-installations as a member of GAle GAtes et al, in DUMBO. Michael and I collaborated using unlikely juxtapositions of images and sound. His theatrical images are stunning, often bizarre, and unexpected. The music for these productions was continuous throughout and involved immersice ambient textures, aggressive rhythmic assaults, and live vocal music. The function of the electronic music was often to create sonic weather to which the performers can respond.
- The World (presented a the Whitney Museum NYC 2003)
- So Long Ago I Can’t Remember (NYC, 2001)
- 1839 (NYC, 1999)
- Field of Mars, (NYC, 1997-8)
- wine-blue-open-water (NYC, 1997)
- I Dug a Pit (Hakushu, Japan, 1996)
Though the term ‘Immersive Theatre’ wasn’t around at that point, it turns out that our work was of lasting influence to other theater companies, and this is chronicled in Daniella Mooney’s The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes published by Routledge in 2022.