{"id":2517,"date":"2016-07-12T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?page_id=2517"},"modified":"2016-07-12T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T01:16:20","slug":"the-slumber-thief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/the-slumber-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slumber Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2518\" style=\"width: 2592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2518 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2049.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2049\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2049.jpg 2592w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2049-270x202.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2049-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2049-540x403.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene from The Slumber Thief<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Phyllis Chen, composer, performer \u00c2\u00a0co-creator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerumenspoon.com\">Rob Dietz<\/a>, video artist, performer, co-creator<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/icls.columbia.edu\/news\/joseph-cermatori-theatre-phd-16-joins-skidmore-faculty-as-assistant-professor\/\">Joseph Cermatori,<\/a> dramaturg<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operacabal.com\/\">Opera Cabal <\/a>commissioned Rob and I to create a multimedia work as part of the OPERAshop project. \u00c2\u00a0Rob and I had worked together on a few pieces at this point, all of which take on the characteristics of miniature theatre, which seem to be an interesting place to question the genre of opera.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Slumber Thief<\/em> is inspired by various\u00c2\u00a0children&#8217;s fairy tales we often with\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0dark and eerie themes. The eyeball, suffering from insomnia, travels from room to room finding more and more surreal scenarios before finally falling asleep before day breaks.<\/p>\n<p>The lo-fi electronics and visuals are all operated manually during performance, giving an on-stage\/back-stage dialogue that is integral to the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/72492379\">full video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2519\" style=\"width: 1936px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2047.jpg\" alt=\"The Celestuarium (music box) that casts stars in the space from the punched music box strip.\" width=\"1936\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2047.jpg 1936w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2047-202x270.jpg 202w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2047-768x1028.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2047-403x540.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Celestuarium (music box) that casts stars in the space from the punched music box strip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Phyllis Chen, composer, performer \u00c2\u00a0co-creator Rob Dietz, video artist, performer, co-creator Joseph Cermatori, dramaturg In 2012, Opera Cabal commissioned Rob and I to create a multimedia work as part of the OPERAshop project. \u00c2\u00a0Rob and I had worked together on a few pieces at this point, all of which take on the characteristics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2517\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}