Project | Stutter

After the success of the AB Documentary, we went on to work more in depth with one of the artists to create a project unlike anything before. Stutter is a performance piece in which Jordan Scott reads his award-winning poetry into a microphone hooked up to an oscilloscope, which visibly measures the variation in his voice. At the same time, an improvisational orchestra plays along to the waveform created by the oscilloscope on a glass wall separating the musicians from Jordan. As Jordan stutters, the waveform jumps and so does the music coming from the orchestra—a very harmonious tune quickly becomes disjunctive and harsh as Jordan struggles with the words.

The project was awarded a BRAVO!Fact that aired in October of 2009 and can be watched in full format below.