The Phaedra Escapes (2012)

In this experimental music concert, Book in collaboration with electronic musician and sound artist Shawn Decker deploy Phaedra as a divining tool to denature the song cycle by way of voluptuous frictions between release and containment, stasis and white hot freedom. Part history and part possibility, Phaedra is both a mythical figure and a contemporary sign of escape.  

The Phaedra Escapes previewed at the Outer Ear Festival at the Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago as a 60 minute concert performance for voice, violin, sound effects, sampler, electronics, synth. Audio excerpts for the video book of poems, Escapes, are drawn from this performance and from concerts in Vienna, AT and Topalcany, SK.