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The George Project: A Liberation Through Hearing
In a seven-part audio play, director Juli Crockett adapts Emilio Cruz’s 1975 anti-war, Artaud-inspired text ‘When This War Is Over, You’re Going to Get It George’ (©1975 Patricia Cruz / Estate of Emilio Cruz) into an immersive sonic experience. Through a not-quite old-fashioned radio drama, listeners undergo a guided vision quest in which sound is both a tool for healing and a weapon of war.
Crockett and her collaborator Michael Feldman place Cruz’s text in an enveloping, spatialized soundscape that conjures a mythic battlefield of mind and body. Veering from ASMR stimulations and soothing sound baths, to echoes of sonic brainwashing and low-frequency attacks, the series offers a ritualized meditation on the brutal logic of war, and on humankind’s capacity to endure, or exploit, the most depraved and hopeless of circumstances.
Produced in residency with CalArts Center for New Performance. Images & original text ©1975 Patricia Cruz / Estate of Emilio Cruz.
Juli Crockett is a theater director, published playwright, retired (undefeated) professional boxer and amateur champion, ordained minister, Doctor of Philosophy, and leader of the alt-country/Americana genre-defying band The Evangenitals.
Michael Feldman is a pianist, composer, sound designer, sound synthesist, and audio engineer interested in the meditative and psychological possibilities of sound.
Juli Crockett and Michael Feldman have collaborated on multiple performance projects, including Double Double (Shakespeare Center), Jack Benny (Padua Playwrights), Cattywampus (South Coast Rep), Circle Jerk (REDCAT), The Evangenitals (band), and the making of a child.
Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
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