This event is in the past.It took place on February 21, 2014 at ISSUE Project Room.




Four composers reimagine Moby Dick as an evening-length oratorio that ditches linear storytelling for Melville's meditations on obsession and mortality. Expect projections inspired by Rockwell Kent's haunting illustrations alongside nineteen musicians bringing the whale tale to experimental life.
Experimental music
Literary adaptation
Contemporary classical
Multimedia performance
Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities
Downtown Brooklyn




Four composers reimagine Moby Dick as an evening-length oratorio that ditches linear storytelling for Melville's meditations on obsession and mortality. Expect projections inspired by Rockwell Kent's haunting illustrations alongside nineteen musicians bringing the whale tale to experimental life.
Experimental music
Literary adaptation
Contemporary classical
Multimedia performance
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