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. 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.
Directed by Samantha Pazos
Scenic design by Zhuang Kang
Costume design by Bunny Brand
Lighting design by Peter Gustafson
Sound design by Chloe Cohen
Media design by Abby Yu Bi
Photos by Louis Stein