Cybeline
(A music theater work for performance-artist, glove controller, trombone, video, and quadraphonic surround sound.)

[http://www.osborne-conant.org/index.html|Abbie Conant (performance-artist, text and drawings) and William Osborne (music, video and direction)]

Cybeline is a music theater work about a cyborg trying to be a talk show host to prove she is human. It is about nature, virtual reality, biotechnology, and the mass media -- about finding the heart and poetry in technology as it also contemplates its horrors. We explore our notion that the creation of a cyborg does not depend on the metalization of the body, but on the programmability of the mind. We live in a wired together, prosthetic world of global “cyberbia“ where our minds are programmed by the mass media.

"Music for the End of Time"
(For trombone and quadraphonic tape based on the the Book of Revelation.)
Abbie Conant -- trombone
William Osborne -- composition

The electronic music of the surround sound creates a sonic environment in which the trombone is the central figure. The work explores all aspects of the trombone, ranging from expressions of "divine wrath," to wild rhythmic unisons with the Four Horsemen, to the gentlest, meditative lyricism.

There is something for everyone in this highly dynamic, varied and colorful concert presented by one of the world's best know trombonists and performance artists!