Soundless Passenger, 2024
(text, sound, and light installation/composition and live performance debuted at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles California, April 2024)
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Soundless Passenger is an intermedia performance that combines field recording, prose, tape music, and live electronics. A character with a severe anxiety disorder stumbles through a narrative that traces the boundary between solitude and self-isolation. Part three in the loose “isolation” series, this piece shifts through modes of attention and awareness, addressing interpersonal perception.
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Written, recorded, composed, and performed
by Kyle Bates