p r i m a m a t e r i a: modified universe , 2025

Music score, Graphic score, and video projection for ensemble.

Commissioned by soyuz21 ensemble, Zurich, Switzerland.

www.soyuz21.ch 

Prima Materia  explores a dance between the ancient and modern, myth and science, technological and organic clashes, and the tipping point of a future under the influence of artificial intelligence.

“In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter, is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.”

Perpetual Drift, Live Performance, 2014, Everson Museum of Art

Live performance documentation

Ether and the Voice: an Electronic Media Opera is an exploration of female voice, technology and identity. Keough creates a world of symbolic and linguistic fantasy, exploring the disembodied voice, electronic environment, personal drama and the archetypal and psychological structures of the interior.

The narrative explores the phenomena of the disembodied voice and the fragmentation
of identity and language through electronic modes of communication and identification. The work investigates older technologies as media devices which initially dislocated the voice from the body such as radio, the telephone and the phonograph, and parallels that phenomena with the splintering and hybridization of virtual identity, digital communication, and language thus expressing a profile of the posthuman. Click the thumbnail for the gallery.

Ether and the Voice: an Electronic Media Opera 2010

Live performance documentation

Ether and the Voice: an electronic media opera is an exploration of female voice, technology and identity. Keough creates a world of symbolic and linguistic fantasy, exploring the disembodied voice, electronic environment, and the archetypal and psychological structures of the interior.

The work investigates older technologies as media devices which initially dislocated the voice from the body such as the telephone and the phonograph, and parallels that phenomena with the splintering and hybridization of virtual identity, digital communication, and language thus expressing a profile of the posthuman. Click the thumbnail for the gallery.

Ether and the Voice Installation

Live Performance, 2010

Sugarfuhk, 2007

Experimental Cabaret Act

A genre fusing act merging a collision of performance and musical 

styles which took audiences on a roller coaster ride of pop culture references, comedic interludes, and glam pop and rock songs.

Producers, writers, performers: Colleen Keough, Fatova Mingus