Let Us Speak Frog - 2022
McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Electronic music composition using Korg Synthesizers, Algorithms, Voice, and Moog Vocoder
Ritual Performance, and Real-time Interactive Moving Images / Digital Puppets
Photos and Video Courtesy of McEvoy Foundation: This event was the collective’s inaugural full performance.
Let Us Speak Frog is an experimental music and multi-media performance. Responding to the Holocene extinction—the ongoing extinction event caused by human activity—electronic synthesizer duo Red Culebra uses generative composition to speak non-human languages and explore imagined ecologies.
At this event, Red Culebra premieres their two-hour durational performance during which audiences will witness two musicians transform themselves, via sound, into flying snakes. Inspired by Indigenous mythologies and storytelling traditions, they enter alternative realms of space and time as they visit frogs throughout the world and attempt to apologize for human destruction.
Dance choreographed by Gerald Casel and immersive animation by Christoph Steger.