A performance including live chamber ensemble, electroacoustic soundscape and projected video, Psychodrama is a multiple rescoring of the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
conductor
Edwin Gonzales
flute
Harold Jones
oboe
Megan Marolf
bassoon
Patricia Wang
horn
David Byrd-Marrow
siren
Robert Kirkbride
harp
Keith Goodman
violin
Duane James
Chala Yancy
viola
Nesrine Balbeisi
violoncello
Robert Tennon
bass
Anthony Morris
Premiere Judson Church, NYC. April 2008. Performance recording: V. Emre Balik
Exhibitions
The Horror Show. Curated by Dave Tolchinsky and Debra Tolchinsky.
2009 The Dorsky Gallery, NYC.
2008 Chicago City Arts, Chicago.
catalogue pdf
2009 Alphabet City Festival: Water . Curated-Produced by John Knechtel.
Alphabet City / MIT Press. Installation, Toronto.
Publications
Grey, Melissa. “Psychodrama: Variation Number One (score).” Alphabet City: Water, ed. John Knechtel. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
_____“Psychodrama: Variation Number One (video).” Alphabet City: Water, ed. John Knechtel. Cambridge: MIT Press/Alphabet City Media, 2009.
Montague, Sarah. Producer. Introducing Norman Bates. Studio 360. audio
Murray, Timothy. “Disquieting Horror: Dismemberment, Mirrorical Stain, and Electronic Disturbance.” The Horror Show. 23-25.
Sconce, Jeffrey. “Return of the Unrepressed.” The Horror Show. 13.
Thurschwell, Pam. “Defining Horror.” The Horror Show. 7-8.
Psychodrama: 13 Variations is funded in part by the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center and is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.