My Voice Has an Echo in It

By Temporary Distortion | Part of the Response Performance Festival (2016)

August 19-20
Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle
612 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo NY 14212
This durational performance runs from 5:00 pm -11:00 pm

MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT features a six-hour durational performance of live music, spoken text and video set within a freestanding, soundproof environment. While watching the performers through two-way mirrors, audience participants also experience music ranging from drifty ambient sounds to erasure poetry to raucous punk-inspired anthems. Complex and densely layered, Temporary Distortion creates an intimate concert atmosphere where everyone has a front row seat. Audience members are encouraged to come and go throughout the 6-hour duration of the event.

Critical Response

“Such a rich, evocative space, I wanted to get lost in it. I stayed for three hours but wish I’d been there for all six.”
– American Theater Magazine

“Takes the concert experience and turns it into something private and lux.”
– Time Out NY

Credits

Installation Design, Direction and Text: Kenneth Collins
Composition, Musical Direction and Sound Design: John Sully
Video Design: Scott Fetterman
Performers: Kenneth Collins, Scott Fetterman, Jenna Kyle and John Sully
Assistant Installation Design: Scott Fetterman
Metalsmith: Scott Fetterman
Technical Director: Nate Fessler

MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT by Temporary Distortion was commissioned by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. This project is made possible with support from The Jerome Foundation. Composer Commission awarded by New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and additional support, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Residency support provided by The Watermill Center and Ideal Glass Gallery.

Website: temporarydistortion.com