Amanta Scott Arts Workshop at The TASIS School in Dorado

University Settlement Choir workshop

Syncretic Art Workshop
integrating sound, found objects & movement
November 2006 - February 2007

In October 2007 I began composing a music score for choir.

The University Settlement Choir agreed to participate in a syncretic arts workshop to develop the work, and several of the choristers participated in the video component.

In November, I began directing weekly Thursday evening syncretic art workshops with the University Settlement Choir as led by Teodora Georgieva.

I created a graphic score and script for choir; three professional performers: Anne-Marie Hood, dancer-choreographer Allison Cummings and myself; and eight volunteers (including four professional artists): Gary Carper, Tania Carter, Lynn Himmelmann, Ed Oikawa, Ellen Skura, John Watkis, Phyllis Whyte and Jim Montgomery.

This work, entitled Shellshock II, was presented by Leading Tone Arts Productions in association with Music Gallery.

In performance the choristers sang the music, with lyrics in Spanish.

Shellshock II used the encaustic sculpture and eggshells as combined visual and percussive elements.

I also utilized an enormous and resonant iron bowl in which I placed 190 names of the victims of the train bombing – written on vellum, which allowed for an audible crinkling sound as we unfolded and read each of the names during the performance.