Tunnel Home

Tunnel Home is an intermedia work for solo performer which incorporates fixed media electronics, live singing bowl, and movement. Inspired by elements of electronic noise music, Japanese butoh dance, and meditation, this piece creates deeply interconnected relationships between the performer and the performance environment and uses the subjective experience of the performer as a structuring element of the performance. The fixed media soundtrack relates to the live singing bowl and the sounds of the performance environment in a way that lends a unique outcome to every performance that takes place in a different space. Additionally, the physical demand of playing a singing bowl while performing movement often affects the quality of movement in a way that is somewhat beyond the performer's control. These indeterminate elements, the sound of the environment and the physical strain of the movement, are essential to the subjective experience of the performance—to remain present and continue the given task to the best of one's ability.