Composer Andrew Infanti joined artist and vocalist Juliana Snapper to create a large-scale intermedia production performed above and underwater, incorporating choruses of up to 90 voices, and post-apocalyptic water ballet corps.
Includes footage from performances at Aksioma Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008; Queer up North Festival, Machester, UK 2009; TRAMA festival performatif, Porto, Portugal 2009; Theatr Dramatyczny Migracje festival, Warsaw, Poland 2010.
The musical material of "You who will emerge from the flood..." is rooted in Snapper's opulent aquatic bel canto, and punctured by quotes from Eisler/Brecht and Berg/Wedekind. Infanti's score employs three doomed utopic tonal systems -- each quite extinct -- to tell the story: dodecaphony, a visceral quarter-tone system and a slippery third-tone system announced (then instantly abandoned) by Frederico Busoni. Infanti's libretto for "You who will emerge from the flood..." is based on "Man after Man" by Dougal Dixon, who crosses orthodox Darwinism with genetic manipulation to imagine the drift humanity will undergo after the extinction of homo sapiens.
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