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  Performances
   
    Luminescence Project: PASSIONate CONVICTions: Passion Remix
    IU Art Museum - February 26-27, 7PM
   
    PASSIONate CONVICTions: Passion Remix stages the St. John Passion as court room trial using the unique architechure and acoustics
    of the Indiana University Art Museum designed by IM Pei.  The performance fuses JS Bach's powerful
    score with popular music idioms creating an explosion of pulsing counterpoint, screaming electric guitars, and
    intensely climatic drama.



    Luminescence Project: Descry: Songs of Searching
    Location: TBA - December 2009
   
    Descry: Songs of Searching follows six individuals as they search for the meaning of their lives.  The performances
    melds ritualized movement, chanting, original compositions for voices and strings, into a 21st century humanistic liturgical drama.



    Luminescence Project: Dreaming in Darkness
    December 12 & 13 - 2008
    Indiana University Art Museum

    Dreaming in Darkness’ music paints rich sonorous descriptions of the enveloping, comforting and mystic elements of the night. 
    It is at dusk and evening that we drop many of our fears; we feel freer to look one another in the eyes, speak loving and difficult
    truths, end old relationships and build new paths.  Darkness is not an abyss, devoid of light and substance, but rather an intense emotion,
    a psychological location, and a time of day that releases new colors, shadows and images of the natural world not visible to us beneath
    the sun’s rays.  Light Totem, a work of art in its own right, has illuminated the Indiana University campus for the past year and
    has become part of the evening landscape.  Its use in Dreaming in Darkness not only lights the night terrain, it conjures and depicts
    the foreboding and consoling narrative each musical depiction of evening unfurls.



     Luminescence Project: Ensnaring Hate
    April 2007
    Bloomington, IN - Indiana University
    Location, Date and Time - TBA

    Ensnaring Hate addresses past and contemporary elements of racism in the United States via William Grant Still's
    choral ballade And They Lynched Him on a Tree.  The evening fuses landscapes of light, sound, video and drama to
    transport you inside a world where "Southern Justice" and mob mentality superceed the courts and rational thought.
    Join us in for a synesthetic experience that is sure to engage and move the ears, eyes, mind and spirit.

    I-A-O - work for improviosational mixed chorus.
    And They Lynched Him on a Tree - William Grant Still's choral ballade for black and white choruses.
    "Strimoni Volio," from Villarsoa Sequences by Thomas Jennefelt, for solo soprano on random syllabic text. 


    Luminescence Project: Silence and Explosion
    Febuary 23 - ArtsWeek, 2:30-5:00  PM
    Bloomington, IN - Indiana University - Sweeny Hall, M015

    An afternoon of workshop readings of segments of three contemporary artistic
    works with an accompanying panel discussion highlighting expressive
    interactions of politics and the arts.
   
    Ainadamar (excerpt), an opera by Osvaldo Golijov, on the murder of Federico
    García Lorca by the Fascists and the issue of artistic freedom of expression.
   
    And They Lynched Him on a Tree (excerpt), a choral ballade by William Grant Still on the
    practice of lynching and "Southern Justice" in the early 20th century. 

    American Maul, a satire by Robert O'Hara on the tenuous state of
    racial harmony in America today.
   
    Fronterilandia and Power Tools, a film by Ruben Ortiz, with music by guest composer
    Gabriela Ortiz, on the political implications of the marriage of cultures in
    the borderland 'imagination' of the U.S. and Mexico.

    Panelists:
    Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (moderator)
    CONDUCTOR - Carmen Helena Tellez, on Osvaldo Golijov's, Ainadamar
    STAGE DIRECTOR - Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, on Robert O'Hara's American Maul
    VIDEO ARTIST - Rubén Ortiz-Torres, on film segments from Fronterilandia and Power Tools (with music by Gabriela Ortiz)
    COMPOSER -  Gabriela Ortiz, on film segments from Fronterilandia and Power Tools



    Luminescence Project: Luminescence: Experiments in Visual Acoustics
    2006 Philadelphia Fringe Festival:
   
    Countless composers claim to see sounds and hear colors - neurologists call this phenomenon synesthesia. Breaking choral
    music boundaries, Luminescence takes you inside this synesthetic world, crafting landscapes of light, color and sound. We invite
    our audience to hear -- to experience -- music of Schönberg, Whitacre, Rautavaara, Morley, and others.
  
   The Sound Vocal Ensemble
    Mark Doerries, conductor
    Maria Shaplin, lighting designer