Press Release

This Spy Surfs is a theatric multimedia work in which the dramatic performance is set to music.
This Spy Surfs is a serialized mythic opera told instrumentally with
surf and spy music, using computer generated vocalizations, and multi-disciplined image events.
Serialized mythic opera is a story form that keeps getting added to much like a soap opera. This is performed by musicians who do not sing nor speak but play composed musics couched in the vocabulary of surf (beach) and spy (film noir) musics. As the performers do not sing, computer generated voices are used to tell the story. All of this is framed in the theatric setting of modern media projection systems as opposed to traditional sets.

Conceived, Directed, and Produced by T. Colburn and B. Klay

©2004 colburn/klay

some quotes

"UN BEBELIEVABLEY COOL"........R. TIMPERIO

"TOO MUCH".........E. LEACOCK

" LETS GO SURFIN' ".........W. TIMPERIO

" I LIKE IT"..........CHEYANNE

" GOOD STORIES ".........C. WATSON

" ITS LIKE SCARY SURF MOVIE MUSIC "........... MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES

"THIS IS THE BEST".........JAY VIDEO

"WHOA THATS HOT".........SOMEONE IN THE HALLWAY

" GOOD TONE ".........D. CRISTENSEN

"OK, OK, OK ".........CARRIE SKOCZEK

"I WAS DANCING TO YOU IN THE OTHER ROOM"......WONDERFUL WOMAN CELLIST

"AWESOME".......D. HURD

"YOU CAN FEEL THE HISTORY OF MUSIC"........DONATELLA

"SOUNDS GOOD"........THE NEIBORS

"IT IS WONDERFUL"......MEGAN #2

"FABULOUS MAN"...........S.VALADO

"SHARA VOTES YES"......MEGAN #1

"YOU TOOK IT TO A NEW LEVEL".....RICH

"THAT WAS GREAT".....KAYO

"COOL, I WILL SEND YOU PICTURES".....ALEX

"I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT"......JULIA

"I REALLY LIKE IT, YOU ARE GREAT"....ANDREW

"I REALLY ENJOYED THE STORY"....S.HELLER

"ITS GOOD TO SEE AN ART BAND IN AN ART GALLERY".....F.MYERS

"AT THE END IT JUST OPENED ME UP".....YJ

          The work exposes the audience to the metaphysics of actual experience via the conduit of fine art performance mechanisms thinly disguised as consumer level popular acculturated music and visual work which allow the biomechanical effect to be technologically enhanced so that it may reach into the precognitive state of experience as decision in order to reveal the meta and micro relations easily apparent to even the most casual participant.