Silent Sky

Silent Sky

Henrietta Leavitt is one of us; gathering in pieces of some realm of endeavor, envisioning the pattern of relationships within the flotsam they’ve caught, and teasingly calculating an understanding of some small piece of a greater puzzle. Ms. Leavitt discovered the first way of measuring the universe so as to demonstrate that heavens were larger than the Milky Way, the limit of creation in her day. Today the Universe is seen as much larger and measured in a number of different ways, which essentially unite distance (space) and time. Astronomy, however, is not the point. Her discovery, when all’s said, was a beginning-step in an ongoing process; though duly credited, it pales over time to later discoveries.

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Creative Team:

Director: Roger Held
Projection Design: Taran Schatz
Costume Design: Mary Cyr
Music Composition: Libby Meyer
Sound Design: Jacob Gust and Sam Balk
Sound Design: Charles Southward, Ethan Sommer, Henry Ashburn, Jamie Bennet, and Zak L’Italien
Music Composition: Libby Meyer
Lighting Design: Melissa Paterson
Scenic Design: Kent Cyr
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Pre-show Entrance Video

Video created by Taran Schatz for Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky.  This video was projected during the pre-show of each performance for audience members to look at before the performance started.

 

Inspiration and Research

Inspiration and research for the entrance video.

 

This is the creative process of the creation of the final Star Field video used in the production.

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Photos of Costumes

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A Word from the Composer

“Creating the composition for Silent Sky was about making a blah blah blah…”                                         Libby Meyer                                                                                                                                                         -Composer

 

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Daytime Ambience:

“As a soldier from the land of Chup steals the mechanical brain of the magical Hoopoe, this sound plays, emphasizing the electrical shorting, digital errors, and mechanical palpitations caused as the soldier carelessly severs each connection in the bird’s robotic head.”

 

Sound of Silence:

“After escaping the dark ship of the cult master Khattam Shud and reclaiming the Hoopoe’s brain, Haroun attempts to reconnect it, but to no avail. Through sound, the boot-up hints at a full recovery for the bird, but stops with a sudden, disconcerting shorting sound. This sound then cued the actor into reciting lines that demonstrated just how crossed his wires were.”

 

Dock Ambience:

“After several failed attempts by Haroun, she finally gets it right. The Hoopoe goes through a full reboot, represented by sounds signifying passed error checks, magical driver updates, automated P2C2E systems re-calibration, and a correct distribution of electrons and Wish Water throughout the Hoopoe’s robotic bird body.”

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Sound System Documents

Speaker Plot  |  Audio Block Diagram

 

“”Two major design goals we had were to create an even vocal reinforcement system for the unique seating situation, while also achieving an immersive environment with vertical and horizontal spatialization for the sound designers.

-Charles Southward
1/5 of the System Designer

 

Photos of Sound Designers and Crew

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Lighting Documents

Light Plot  |  LX Paperwork

 

“I wanted to design Silent Sky as blah blah blah…”

-Melissa Patterson
Lighting Designer

 

Photos of Lighting

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Scenic Documents

Scenic Ground Plan  |  Scenic Construction

 

Photos of Set

Documents (open in new windows):
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