CUSTOM APP & PLAYLIST

Remixed is experienced in each audience member’s home via our custom app, the portal into the performance and the pass to our listening party. The app is designed to playfully guide audiences through an interactive listening journey down the spine of change. Over the course of the performance, our algorithmic DJ crafts a unique playlist for each audience member, refining the playlist as it gets to know each person. The resulting playlist is tailored to both complement and complicate. Audiences are not alone in this synchronous experience: each performative journey intersects in complete anonymity, reminding us that we are not alone and that change does not happen in isolation. Underneath the experience is the question: how does technology impact our ability to make change?

THE SCENE

Remixed is a playful hybrid of local geography and digital experience. On the day of the performance, a kit of installation supplies are dropped off at each audience member’s home. During the performance, audiences listen to their playlist while creating their own immersive environment. This process offers a subtle visualization of change audiences can keep afterwards, a physical marker of our digital experience. The kit includes seeds chosen in partnership with local food service organizations, and in consideration of their individual symbolic and biological properties and the audience members’ geographic areas. 

An in-person version of Remixed, featuring an immersive and responsive installation, is currently in development.

THE STORIES

Each playlist weaves together true stories of change with narration that prompts audiences to reflect on their own lives, easing from personal to collective to systemic and back, asking: what are you willing to do to make change in our world? The stories are vulnerable and intimate, and reflect where these experiences are lived: tucked into kitchens, cozy in living rooms, overlooking nature and cityscapes. The recordings bring audiences to the storyteller, evoking a sense of place, space, and ethereal presence. Our library of stories began while touring Trophy and continues to evolve through an ongoing recording process. Together, they reflect change in all its possibilities and impossibilities, and are a polyphonic choir of socio-economic, linguistic, and age-based diversity.