Sound Design Portfolio
Adapted and Directed by Tea Alagic
Yale School of Drama
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the Chorus as they emerged from underneath the set to surround the body of a tormented Brutus. Their voices reverberated around the room, as if the spirit of the chorus enveloped the audience. |
the story of the conspirators' journey to the Ides of March. Many moments in the play were accompanied by projected film interpretations of the emotional underpinning of the moment. |
The actors sang the Latin chants added to the text in Alagic's adaptation. The compositions were the result of a collaboration between myself, the director and the actors, and I accompanied most of the chants with various drums. |
This audio clip is an example of the underscoring I created to accompany the film projections; the murder, however, was accompanied only by the labored breath of the conspirators, and the bloody gurgling of the fallen Caesar. |
downstage left corner of the performance space,
behind the fluorescent lights
on the orchestra level next to the stage.
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and inform events and locations throughout the play. I built and played a contemporary lyre
inspired by my research into ancient Greek theatrical music.
The two Tibetan bowls pictured were struck with beaters, rung around their edges to produce
an ethereal tone, and bowed with a violin bow for an accented ringing.
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