LORCA IN A GREEN DRESS (City Theatre with Carnegie Mellon University, Nov. 2024)
I designed the sound effects, sound system, and composed the music for Lorca in a Green Dress by Nilo Cruz, directed by Samantha Pazos. The production relied heavily on sound design and underscoring. I used OSC to fire lighting and media cues in sync with sound. In the play, the main character, Lorca with Blood, has a series of memories recreated by the ensemble. I did the underscoring for these moments and used a palette of magical yet somewhat ominous-sounding instruments. One of the songs in the play, Blanca y Pura Luz, was written by myself with the director, recorded with the performers, and produced by me. A movement piece took place while the song played. Several songs, with lyrics from Lorca’s poems, are written into the script. For these songs, myself and the director found arrangements of songs with these lyrics that we felt fit the play, and I prepared materials for the performers to learn the music. This meant separating vocals and instrumentals into separate tracks and creating click tracks. I also prepared sheet music for the song I transcribed and arranged, Verde Que Te Quiero Verde, as well as the original song, Blanca y Pura Luz. One of our characters, the Flamenco Dancer, was represented by media. For this, we recorded a real flamenco dancer in front of a green screen. To get high quality audio, I set up a recording space to record the flamenco dancer’s footsteps and palmas to the pre-recorded footage. Then, I synchronized my recordings with the footage and sent it back to the media designer. Every media cue that included the flamenco dancer was fired by sound with OSC.