The Health
CREDITS:
Performed by Mocrep at the International Museum of Surgical Science on 5/13/22.
Sound by Zach Moore. Video by Brian Cagle.
Music and words written by Sam Scranton
Performers: Zach Good - bass clarinet, recorders, sample pad, voice
Deidre Huckabay - EWI, percussion, voice
Lia Kohl - cello, electric guitar, radio, voice
Zach Moore - electric bass Sam Scranton - percussion, synthesizer, voice
Andrew Tham - electric guitar, percussion, synthesizer, voice
Chris Wood - synthesizer, voice
Video installation conceived by Andrew Tham and Chris Wood and Sam Scranton in collaboration with Deidre Huckabay.
Costumes made by Deidre Huckabay, designed in collaboration with Sam Scranton, Andrew Tham, and Chris Wood.
Lighting design and overseer of tech and live sound by Zach Moore.
Projector/screen installation and video mapping by Chris Wood.
Screens built by Molly Roth Scranton and Sam Scranton.
ABOUT:
The Health is an evening-length musical ceremony that imagines health not as a property of individual bodies, but as a vital, cosmic force that flows through all things. It suggests that all matter is both beneficiary and victim of the agency and vitality of The Health. Human, virus, cheetah, zebra, rock, water. The Health incorporates forms drawn from the healthcare industry, diagnostic tests, hold music, meditation music, and places them in an expanded musical, visual, theatrical landscape. It asks: if health were an American religion, what might a proper theology look like? What might a ceremony feel like? A cosmology? The Health celebrates the life force in its weight, silliness, and joy.
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All photos by Ricardo Adame