composed by ted hearne libretto by mark doten directed by

2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL

The Source Composed by Ted Hearne Libretto by Mark Doten Directed by Daniel Fish

BAM

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herBrooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor

Bloomberg is the Season Sponsor

Viacom is the BAM 2014 Music Sponsor

Leadership support for music at BAM provided by:

Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman

Pablo J. Salame

DATES: OCT 22—25 at 7:30pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)

RUN TIME: Approx 1hr 15min (no intermission)

#THESOURCE


COMPOSER Ted Hearne

LIBRETTIST Mark Doten

DIRECTOR Daniel Fish PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jim Findlay

VIDEO DESIGNERS Jim Findlay & Daniel Fish

LIGHTING DESIGERChristopher Kuhl

COSTUME DESIGNERTerese Wadden

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Ashley Tata

WORLD PREMIERE BAM 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL OCTOBER 22—25, 2014

Produced by Beth Morrison Projects

VOCALISTSMellissa Hughes SopranoSamia Mounts SopranoIsaiah Robinson TenorJonathan Woody Bass-Baritone

ENSEMBLENathan Koci Music Director Conductor/KeyboardCourtney Orlando ViolinAnne Lanzilotti ViolaLeah Coloff CelloTaylor Levine GuitarGreg Chudzik BassRon Wiltrout Drums

PRODUCTION TEAMSarah Peterson Production ManagerJason Kaiser Stage ManagerGarth MacAleavey Sound EngineerGil Sperling Video EngineerPhilip White Vocal Processing Engineer

PRODUCERBETH MORRISON PROJECTSBeth Morrison Creative ProducerJecca Barry General ManagerNoah Stern Weber Associate ProducerKat Castle Production and Administrative Intern

On Video:Ernest Acosta, Dwayne Adams, Iones-cu-Ocnita Alexandra-Vasilia, Matthew Annenberg, Ed Bak, Hwa-Mi Barnett, Rommel C. Barns, Rachel Bier, Judy Brick Freedman, Gregory Brown, Richard Francis Burst-Lazarus, Zorelly Cepeda, Doug Chapman, Thierry Chauvaud, Christina Choe, Michael Christians, Janet D. Clancy, Sebas-tien Cornut, Liz Cunningham, Kerstin Czarra, Elana Frankel, Jakeem Dames, Tessa Dassatti, Maurice Decaul, Cathe-rine DeGennaro, Emily Edwards, Grace Ellis, Shirley Gadson, Armen Garo, Miranda Greer, Spencer Greer, Amy Maude Helfer, Matthew Herman, Mark Jaynes, Aja Jones, Joscelyn Jurich,

The Source

Sue Killam, Kaja Kuehl, Leon LaRose, Harriet Lauritsen, Kimberly Lawrence, Arin Maya Lawrence, Schecter Lee, Ju-lia Leonardos, Jeffrey Lopez, Nadiana Lopez, Elizabeth Mason, Karl Mattson, Greg McHale, Belinda McKeon, Julia Melnick, Jon Moccio, Corinn Moreno, George Mott, Elizabeth Natal, Jay M. Newman, Stephanie Newman, Arelle Oberlander, Christopher O’Halloran, Wayne Paul, Riley Peters, Hannah Pivo, Lara Quiñones, Medhat Rizk, Judith A. Roberts, Meghan Robertson, Jakeem Roman, Rob D. Rudolph, Grace Schultz, Darryn Sinkler, Yvonne Slater, Juan Torres, Giselle Ty, Flor M Vidal, Stephen Winter, Chris Yu.

The Source was commissioned by BETH MORRISON PROJECTS and JUDY & ALLEN FREEDMAN, with additional commissioning support from JUSTUS & HELEN SCHLICHTING.

The Source is made possible by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the sup-port of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

The Source was supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Andrew W. Mellon Founda-tion, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, Anonymous. Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

Residency support was provided by MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.

About The Source

LIBRETTIST’S NOTEThe central fact of the classified materials that Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning leaked is their almost ungraspable scope. They include 483,000 army field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan and 251,000 diplomatic cables; these were released, along with video of a US airstrike in Baghdad, by WikiLeaks and its media partners in 2010. The reporting at the time focused less on what the leaks revealed about America’s conduct of wars and diplomacy than on the personalities involved. While I believe that the content of the leaks is more important than any individual—including Manning—there are several players who were integral to the events; brief descriptions of them are below.

CHELSEA MANNING (FORMERLY BRADLEY MANNING) is a US army private responsible for the largest public leak of classified information in American history. She was arrested in May, 2010, and in August, 2013, was sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment on numerous counts of espionage, theft, and computer fraud, as well as several military infractions. She is serving her sentence at the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Following her sentencing, she made public her transgender status and requested the treatments necessary for her gender dysphoria; these treatments have thus far been withheld.

ADRIAN LAMO is a former hacker who gained notoriety in the early 2000s for breaking into the computer networks of Worldcom, Yahoo!, and

other corporations—he would expose security vulnerabilities, and then offer his services to the companies to help them patch their weaknesses. After hacking The New York Times, Lamo was the subject of an investigation by federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to a count of felony computer crimes in 2004, for which he was sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay restitution. Just prior to her arrest, Manning sought out Lamo online, drawn by his reputation as a hacker, his public support of WikiLeaks, and possibly his sexual orientation (Manning was aware that Lamo is bisexual and had worked for LGBT rights in the 1990s). The two engaged in a far-ranging online chat, during which Manning spoke of the leaks, as well as her feelings about herself, her gender identity, life in the Army, US foreign policy, secrecy, and her hopes that her actions would lead to “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms.” Lamo reported her to the authorities, which led to her arrest on May 27, 2010 at her base in eastern Iraq.

JULIAN ASSANGE is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and was at the center of a firestorm of attention and controversy during the release of the material provided by Manning. In 2012, facing extradition from the UK to Sweden for alleged sexual offenses, he was granted asylum by Ecuador and has lived in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since that time. The material provided by Manning remains the most significant leak in the history of the organization.

The libretto is sourced primarily from the contents of the leaks themselves (diplomatic cables, the “Iraq War Logs” and the “Afghan War Diary”), and from Manning’s side of the Manning/Lamo chats published by Wired.com.Other sources include tweets from Lamo regarding his decision to turn in Manning, an array of questions that journalists have posed to Julian Assange, and selections from interviews, radio, and social media, drawn primarily from the same time period as the leaks. —Mark Doten

COMPOSER’S NOTEOne common trait of the Manning-Lamo Chat Logs and the leaked documents from Iraq and Afghanistan is that every event is marked with a timestamp. An audio sample, too, is a kind of timestamp: one specific collection of sounds, singular and unique, and reproducible in a way that could never be possible with live musicians in real time. Every time we hear a sample, we know it originates from a separate context, and in this way its “pastness” is emphasized. So, when samples are used in this music, I consider it an interaction and engagement with history.

And how do we engage with the source of a sample? A pre-recorded sound may bring up a rich world of cultural and historical associations for one listener while being heard as an unencumbered sonic object to another. The many layers of meaning that exist in a sample make it impossible for one listener (or composer) to grasp all of them. This reminds me of the complexity we face when processing multiple sources of information.


About the auto-tune: I developed this interactive use of vocal processing with composer Philip White, in our work as the vocal/electronics duo R WE WHO R WE. I think of the auto-tune in The Source as a reflection of the self. It may be an image filtered through endless data on a computer screen, or one neutralized by the distance between Brooklyn and Iraq, or an image of the person we (or Manning) would be if we could play the roles that are expected of us. —Ted Hearne

DIRECTOR’S NOTEWhat do people look like when they look at the leaks? What do people look like when they are looking? When I began working on The Source, I was struck by the sheer volume of material Manning helped make public. It felt impossible to look at it all and yet to not look at it felt like a failure of responsibility. Jim Findlay and I filmed nearly 100 people as they watched a very small part of what Manning exposed. The resulting footage makes up the main visual element of the production. I’m grateful to those people whose generosity with their time, their faces, their emotions, and their myriad ways of looking and being looked at make the visual content of The Source possible. —Daniel Fish

Special thanks to Joe Melillo, Alexander Papachristou, Anne Detjen, Daniel Baldini, Rachel Chanoff and The Office, Jim Nicola and Linda Chapman at NYTW, Sue Killam and the Performing Arts Department at MASS MoCA, and Alexandra Kuechler-Caffall.

photos.

photos: Screen captures, Wikileaks


TED HEARNEComposer

Composer, performer, and bandleader Ted Hearne draws on a wide breadth of influences ranging across music’s full terrain to create intense, personal, and multi-dimensional works.

Hearne’s Katrina Ballads, a modern-day oratorio with a primary source libretto, was awarded the 2009 Gaudeamus Prize in composition and was named one of the best classical albums of 2010 by Time Out Chicago and The Washington Post. His most recent collaboration paired him with hiphop/soul icon Erykah Badu, for whom he wrote an evening-length work combining new music with arrangements of songs from her 2008 album New Amerykah: Part One. It was premiered by Badu and the Brooklyn Philharmonic in two sold-out performances at BAM.

Hearne is a member of the composer collective Sleeping Giant and performs/composes with Philip White as the vocal-electronics duo R WE WHO R WE. He serves on the composition faculty at the University of Southern California, and his forthcoming album of songs, Outlanders, will see release on New Amsterdam Records in fall 2015. Upcoming commissions

include works for the San Francisco Symphony, Flux Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, eighth blackbird, and Yarn/Wire. tedhearne.com

MARK DOTEN Librettist

Mark Doten has had his writing appear in Conjunctions, Guernica, The Believer, and New York magazine. His first novel, The Infernal, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. He has an MFA from Columbia University and is the recipient of fellowships from Columbia and the MacDowell Colony. He was associate editor at the Huffington Post at the site’s launch and is currently senior editor at Soho Press. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. You can find him online at markdoten.com or @markedoten.

DANIEL FISH Director & Co-Video Designer

Daniel Fish is a director who works in theater, opera, and film. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays, and found audio. Recent work includes the film Eternal (Noorderzon Festival, Incubator Arts Project, and the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival), and A (radically condensed and expanded) SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN, based on audio recordings of David Foster Wallace (Chocolate Factory). His work has been seen at theaters throughout the US and Europe including Opera Philadelphia/Curtis Opera Theater, American Repertory Theater, Richard

Who’s Who


B. Fisher Center at Bard College, Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Signature Theater, Shakespeare Theater Company, the Juilliard School, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Braunschweig, and Royal Shakespeare Company. Residencies and commissions include Baryshnikov Arts Center, Chocolate Factory, LMCC/ Governor’s Island, and Bushwick Starr. He received his BS in performance studies from Northwestern University.

JIM FINDLAY Scenic & Video Designer

Jim Findlay works across boundaries as a theater artist, visual artist, and filmmaker. His most recent work includes his original performances Dream of the Red Chamber (2014) and Botanica (2012), the direction and design of David Lang’s Whisper Opera for the Museum of Contemporary Art and Lincoln Center, and the soon-to-be complete 3D film adaptation of Botanica. He was a founding member and collaborator in the Collapsable Giraffe, and in partnership with Radiohole helped run the mythical and recently deceased Collapsable Hole from 2000—13. In addition to his original works as an independent artist and with the Giraffe, he maintains a long career as a collaborator with many theater, performance, and music groups and artists including Aaron Landsman, the Wooster Group, Ridge Theater, Bang on a Can, Ralph Lemon, Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and Accinosco/Cynthia Hopkins. His work has been seen at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, BAM, Arena Stage, A.R.T., in over 50 cities worldwide including Berlin,

Istanbul, London, Moscow, and Paris, and in the tiny theater he built in the home of David Lang and Suzanne Bocanegra. He has been awarded three Obies, two Bessies, two Princess Grace Awards, Lortel and Hewes Awards, and residencies at MacDowell, UCross, MassMOCA, and Mount Tremper Arts.

CHRISTOPHER KUHL Lighting Designer

Christopher Kuhl is a lighting, scenic, installation, and conceptual designer for new performance, theater, dance, and opera. Recent work includes ABACUS (BAM, Sundance Film Festival, EMPAC, REDCAT); Straight White Men (Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Wexner Center); The Elephant Room (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Philly Live Arts, Arena Stage, MCA Chicago); Quartier Libres with Nadia Beugré (New York Live Arts, Walker Art Center); Ethel’s Documerica (BAM); John Cage Song Books (SF Symphony, Carnegie Hall). Kuhl has also had the pleasure of working and making art at On the Boards, Fusebox Festival, Kennedy Center, YBCA, Jacob’s Pillow, LA Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Holland Festival, Beijing Music Festival, Queer Zagreb, KVS Belgium, MAC France, Edinburgh Fringe, and Santiago a Mil Chile. He was also the production manager and lighting director for Ralph Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere? In 2011 Kuhl was the recipient of the Sherwood, Drammy, Horton, and Ovation Awards. In 2014 he was nominated for a Bessie Award for outstanding visual design and was a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award. Kuhl is originally from


NM, a graduate of CalArts, an associate artist of Hand2Mouth Theatre, and co-director of Live Arts Exchange (LAX).

TERESE WADDEN Costume Designer

Terese Wadden has collaborated with Daniel Fish on Eternal (Incubator Arts Project and Under the Radar Festival) and House For Sale (Transport Group). Her recent projects include Lizzie Borden (Boston Lyric Opera and Tanglewood), Kat’a Kabanova (Spoleto Festival USA), New Work for the Desert (NYLA), Dialogues of the Carmelites (Curtis Institute/Opera Philadelphia), and Sunday in the Park with George (Short North Stage).She has designed costumes for As You Like It (The Acting Company), A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company—Dora Award Nomination), Così fan tutte (New York City Opera), Don Giovanni (New York City Opera and Portland Opera), La Clemenza di Tito (Canadian Opera Company and Chicago Opera Theatre), and Elliot Carter’s only opera, What Next? (Miller Theatre at Columbia University). She has also collaborated with the architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro on the exhibit How Wine Became Modern, at San Francisco MoMA. Wadden is a graduate of the Motley Theatre Design Course in London, UK, and Vassar College.

ASHLEY TATA Assistant Director

Ashley Tata is a Brooklyn-based theater and opera director. Recent credits: David T. Little’s Soldier Songs with video by Bill Morrison (Atlas Theatre, DC and Holland Festival, Beth Morrison Projects), Lainie Fefferman’s Here I Am (Roulette), Foreign Wars (Random Access Theatre), Into the Woods (LIU Post), The Censorship of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour (Martin E. Segal Center), The Glory of Living (Revolve Productions), The Telephone (Alchemical Theater Laboratory), and Dirt, (Part 1) (HERE’s Summer Sublet). As assistant director: David T. Little’s Dog Days (Robert Woodruff, director, Beth Morrison Projects), David Lang’s love fail (Beth Morrison Projects), Kurt Weill’s The Protagonist (Fire Island Opera Festival, Edwin Cahill, director), Toshio Hosokawa’s Matsukaze (Spoleto Festival, USA and Lincoln Center Festival, Chen Shi-Zheng, director), and Atomic (Damien Gray, director). Upcoming: assistant director for Dog Days at Fort Worth Opera and REDCAT, LA Opera (BMP). Recipient of the Lotos Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize in the Arts and Sciences. MFA Columbia University. ashleykellytata.com

NATHAN KOCI Music Director, Conductor, Keyboard

Nathan Koci is a Brooklyn-based musician originally from Charleston, SC. He enjoys a diverse career as a multi-instrumentalist both on and off the stage, performing on horn, accordion and other keyboards, brass, and stringed instruments. Called a


“new-music maven” by Time Out NY, he has long been an advocate for music by living composers, premiering pieces by Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, and Yotam Haber, and working with ensembles Signal, Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Modern, Bang on a Can, Wordless Music, and the New Music Collective. As a composer, Koci has composed for theater, dance, and film, as well as for his own instrumental trio The Opposite of a Train. Onstage roles have included War Horse (Songman, National Theatre of Great Britain), Mother Courage and Her Children (Bandleader, Arena Stage), and Much Ado About Nothing (music director/accordionist, Shakespeare in the Park, NYC). He is immensely glad to be collaborating on The Source with some of his favorite musicians in the world.

JASON KAISER Stage Manager

Jason Kaiser’s credits at BAM include Nonesuch Records at BAM with Steve Reich and Philip Glass, 21c Liederabend op. 3, Elsewhere, love fail, Arjuna’s Dilemma, and the world tour of Einstein on the Beach. Other credits: eight projects with director Daniel Fish, three world premieres by Athol Fugard, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, world premiere of Nico Muhly and Stephen Karam’s Dark Sisters, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Magic Flute conducted by Victor Borge, two European tours of Jesus Christ Superstar, Noël Coward’s Bitter Sweet at Bard SummerScape, and five years with Jennifer Muller/The Works dance company.

MELLISSA HUGHES Soprano

Hailed by The New York Times as “a versatile, charismatic soprano endowed with brilliant technique and superlative stage instincts…indispensable to New York’s new-music ecosystem,” Mellissa Hughes enjoys a busy international career in both contemporary and early music. A dedicated interpreter of living composers, Hughes has worked closely with Steve Reich and Neil Rolnick, and premiered works by David T. Little, Ted Hearne, Caleb Burhans, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, and Frederic Rzewski, among others. In the classical concert hall she has performed Mozart’s Vespers and Requiem under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner, Bach cantatas with Julian Wachner and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Sir David Willcocks, and the role of Dido under the direction of Andrew Lawrence King. Equally at home in front of a rock band, Hughes has received widespread acclaim in her role as lead vocalist of Newspeak, an amplified alt-classical band, and for her work with Missy Mazzoli’s Victoire. Recent and upcoming highlights include a solo recital for American Songbook at Lincoln Center; an acclaimed recording of Jacob Cooper’s Silver Threads, a song cycle written for and premiered by Hughes, on Nonesuch Records; international tours with John Zorn, singing his Madrigals and Earthspirit in Jerusalem, Montreal, Paris, London, New York, et al; Jonathan Berger’s double bill opera, Visitations, in a Beth Morrison Projects/HERE production for Protoype 2014 at Roulette; and performances with The


Roots, Alarm Will Sound, Signal, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and many others.

SAMIA MOUNTS Soprano

Samia Mounts is thrilled to be making her operatic debut in The Source. An accomplished vocalist and performer, Mounts fronts and writes songs for her rock band, which performs all over NYC and the tri-state area. She also performs Great Gig In The Sky with several Pink Floyd tribute bands, including Us & Floyd, and Time: A Pink Floyd Experience, and she provides voice-overs for commercials, animations, and video games. Past credits include: featured vocalist for Brother Josephus & the Love Revolution (2008—13); Atlanta Theater of the Stars national tour of Les Misérables; Les Misérables and The Pajama Game at the St. Louis MUNY; and Rent and Grease at Surflight Theatre. Download her free original music and find out about upcoming shows at samiamusic.com.

ISAIAH ROBINSON Tenor

Isaiah Robinson is a multi-talented musician born in Chicago into a musical family of singing parents. As an actor he was featured in Steven Spielberg’s 1991 film Hook, playing the role of Pockets. He also appeared in several radio and television commercials as a child; most notably, “That’s My Baby” for Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, a Polaroid commercial featuring the comedian Sinbad, as

well as advertisements for Kraft, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, JC Penny, Sears, and Eagle Foods. As a vocalist he was primarily trained by his parents and siblings, singing in church, and leading to performances on several jingles and voice-overs for various products and companies. He has performed with the Barrett sisters, Darius Brooks, Aretha Franklin, R-Kelly, Pattie Labelle, Rascal Flatts, Joan Collaso, Rene Marie, Kim Stratton, Jonita Lattimore, the Brown Sisters, Twinkie Clark Terrell, Kelvin Lenox, Mavis Staples, Janis Siegel, Chaka Khan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Dennis DeYoung. He was a featured performer in Ted Hearne’s Katrina Ballads, and recently performed in David Lang’s opera The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, with a production at Roulette and forthcoming cast recording. Robinson is currently a teaching artist for the Lookingglass Theater, City of Chicago After School Matters Program, Urban Gateways, and works with private students in the Chicago area. He also performs with the Stu Hirsh Orchestra and Silent Theater, among others, and was the featured vocalist at the inauguration of Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. He performs with and facilitates workshops for the Chicago Children’s Choir and is on staff as a musician/organist and choir master at the Life Center C.O.G.I.C. in Chicago where he has served for more than 14 years.

JONATHAN WOODY Bass-baritone

Jonathan Woody is a sought-after performer of early and new music in New York and nationwide. Equally


comfortable as soloist and ensemble member, Woody is a member of the Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, where he has been featured in performances of works by GF Handel and JS Bach, earning praise as “charismatic” and “riveting” from The New York Times. He performs regularly across the US; recent engagements and awards include the premiere of Luna Pearl Woolf’s The Pillar with the National Opera America Center, the Oregon Bach Festival Vocal Fellowship, the Carmel Bach Festival Virginia Best Adams Fellowship, performances with the Green Mountain Project, the Clarion Music Society, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, TENET, Signal Ensemble, the Prototype Festival, Brooklyn Baroque, and Gotham Chamber Opera. He has recorded with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street under the Musica Omnia label, most recently featured on the premiere recording of Ralf Yusuf Gawlick’s Missa Gentis Humanae for 8 Voices. Upcoming engagements include performances with Bach Collegium San Diego, Handel & Haydn Society, and Nashville Symphony, and touring with Apollo’s Fire and Pegasus Early Music.

photos: Screen captures, Wikileaks


BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Producer

Founded in 2006, Beth Morrison Projects encourages risk-taking, creating a structure for developing new work that is unique to each artist, giving them the time and space to experiment and push boundaries. Noted as a composers’ producer, “Beth Morrison, of Beth Morrison Projects, has been gathering strength for several years, producing some of the most exciting music-theater projects in the city.” (The New Yorker) To date, the company has commissioned, developed, and produced more than 30 premiere opera and music-theater works that have been performed around the globe. The New York Times recently said, “The production of new [opera] works in the city still falls mostly to the tireless Beth Morrison and her Beth Morrison Projects…” The Wall Street Journal wrote, “Ms. Morrison may be immortalized one day as a 21st-century Diaghilev, known for her ability to assemble memorable collaborations among artists.” Current and upcoming projects include works by composers Darcy James Argue, Du Yun, Ted Hearne, David Lang, David T. Little, Zhou Long, Keeril Makan, Missy Mazzoli, Paola Prestini, Kamala Sankaram, Scott Wheeler, and with directors Julian Crouch, James Darrah, Rachel Dickstein, Daniel Fish, Yuval Sharon, and Robert Woodruff. Projects have been performed in American and international venues, including BAM, the Kitchen, PS 122, Lincoln Center, Walker Art Center, Barbican, Holland Festival, Operadagen Festival, Beijing

Music Festival, New York Musical Theater Festival, and more.

BMP is generously funded by the Aar-on Copland Fund for Music, Alice M. Ditson Fund, the Amphion Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Charles & Cerise Jacobs Charitable Trust, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foun-dation, MAP Fund/Creative Capital, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, New York State Council on the Arts, Opera America, and the Puffin Foundation.

BETH MORRISON PROJECTSBoard of Directors:Jane Gullong (chair)Matthew AnnenbergSue BienkowskiRalph DandreaNicholas FirthJudy Brick FreedmanDavid Gindler Jane A. GrossFrederick Peters

ADVISORY BOARDLinda BrumbachAndrew HamingsonRuby LernerJoseph V. Melillo

Beth Morrison Projectsis supported by:

$20,000+New York State Council of

the ArtsOpera AmericaThe Andrew W. Mellon

FoundationAllen R. and Judy Brick

FreedmanCharles and Cerise

Charitable FoundationMAP Fund/Creative

Capital

$5,000-19,999Frederick W. PetersJane A. GrossJustus J. SchlichtingLinda & Stuart NelsonThe National Endowment

for the ArtsNew Music USAThe Royal Norwegian

ConsulateThe Fan Fox and Leslie R.

Samuels FoundationMatthew & Krista

AnnenbergTim & Carol ColeDavid & Kiki Gindler

$1,000-4,999The Aaron Copland Fund

for MusicAlexander Papachristou &

Anne Detjen

Annaliese SorosAlice M. Ditson FundDaniel BaldiniElisha WieselRalph DandreaJane M. Gullong Opera on TapPeggy Shaw SullivanThe Puffin FoundationRaymond SteckelSarah SolomonSpace Science Institute

$500-999Anna RabinowitzCharles & Jane MorrisonDaniel DuroDawn & Andy EigFrederick A.O. Schwarz,

Jr.Jane BernsteinJoseph V. MelilloMarian Angell Godfrey

GardnerMayer-Ahearn Family

Charitable FundRichard Fuller & Sandra

Lenore Page-CookSusan Bienkowski

$1-499Abby Hymowitz & Sharon

KatzAnimal Stone ProductionsAnne TritesAriana Lamon-AndersonBeverly CollinsBrent Straughan

David CoteDiane K. WachtellDu YunEmily JaworskiErling WoldGordon GouldJ. Neal & Martha CooperJames VesperJeanne E. LinnesJill SteinbergJoan R. SorkinJody Oberfelder Dance

ProjectsJoel GraberKari Jane DocterKim WhitenerKithara EditionsLouis F. O’NeillMarcela Rodriguez

RamirezMark AdamoMary Jo & David ReichMary-Claire van LeunenMatthew GrayPamela DrexelPaola PrestiniPeter SzepPhyllis E. HoffmanR. Mark BrokawRob Paarlberg &

Marianne PerlakScott LevineScott WheelerSydney L. BriggsThomas GoehringThomas KriegsmannTom Cipullo

THE SOURCE

LIBRETTO—BY MARK DOTENFrom primary-source texts

I. [Explosive Hazard] II. Oh The Shark

III. [Trust Logs]

IV. s/as boy/as a boy

V. [A young boy released several pigeons]

VI. Julian in a nutshell

VII. [Criminal Event: Murder Report]

INTERLUDE: DON’T WANT TO BE A PART

VIII. Complex Keys

IX. [Smoke when bird nears]

X. [The marine that engaged]

XI. [We called for illumination at 1630]

XII. I encrypt as much as I can

I.[Explosive Hazard]

(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD) Improvised Explosive DeviceExplosion Report:Zero Injured / Zero Damage1STB in the vicinity of Route Shark.December 21, 2007An IED detonation was reported by C co 1-327 INF to Task force SPARTAN, in the Salah Ad Din Province, Ad Dawr, vicinity. 38S LD 8930 1490. 1st Platoon/Aco/1st STB was traveling north on Route Shark when an IED detonated on their convoy.

Oh, the shark

(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD)

Improvised Explosive Device Found / ClearedZero Injured / Zero DamageClassification: SecretNovember 7, 2005

At 1348C, 224 Enemy ATTACHED TO 4-14 discovered an IED on Route Bridle, 16km W of Rawah, North of the Shark-Fin.

Oh, the shark

(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD)

Improvised Explosive DeviceExplosion ReportBaghdad Police Ops:2 Civilians Killed in Action / 3 Civilians Wounded in ActionClassification: SecretAugust 10, 2008

The explosion occurred when a car was passing in front of the Central Bank of Iraq.

2 Local Nationals killed and 2 Local Nation-als wounded.All were employees of the bank.Checkpoint in the Bab Al Sharke Area.

(EXPLOSIVE HAZARD)Improvised Explosive DeviceExplosion Report

1 CF Wounded in Action

November 22, 2008

The casualty has a suspected broken left foot, with no feeling.They are going to require Air Evacuation.smoke when bird nearsTiger Shark 57 has been pushed to support.

Iraq War Logs and Afghanistan War Logs:• http://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/FDFCEBCF-FF03-7711-32CE7E35D8D0CF24/• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/E919028B-35EB-45CC-915E-EE7134F45397/• http://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/AF4D982C-BFAA-128B-DF59282E0DB3D914/• http://wl.wikileaks-press.org/irq/event/2008/11/IRQ20081122n12521.html

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, “Mack the Knife” as recorded by Clay Aiken on Tried and True (released 06.01.10)

II.Oh The Shark

Oh the shark You keep the world at bay Oh the shark keep the world Oh the shark has Oh yeah, we back! keep the world Fresh kid T Oh yeah, we back! Oh the shark has

You rediscover the web, I’m napping.

My guest tonight, a very funny comedian and actor, known from Knocked Up, Superbad Oh the shark has You keep the world at bay My first kiss with Roberto on the wire was unlike any other kiss I’ve ever had

I know what it’s like to be twenty-two,scared and in shackles too.I’ve been there.I hope none of you ever have to make a choice like this.

You can’t come back down and land before you shoot.

- SAWYER: What’s the answer we most want? - HAWKING: I want to know why the universe exists... Can’t stop, now I know who I am Oh the shark has

Hackers confide in me all the time.I’d go to prison before I’d betray their trust.I didn’t get Manning arrested.He got himself arrested.

I don’t pay for the meter, I remember I was be strong enough to There’s still plenty of time remaining. (De-fense!)

I outed Brad Manning as an alleged leaker out of duty.I would never – and have never -out an ordinary decent criminal.There’s a difference.

- HAWKING: ...and how insignificant and accidental human life is in it...

• Twitter feed from Adrian Lamo (06.01.10 – 06.08.10)

https://twitter.com/6• Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, “Mack the Knife” as recorded by Clay Aiken on Tried and True (released 06.01.10)• Chiddy Bang, “Opposite of Adults” (single released 02.21.10)• Dixie Chicks, “Easy Si-lence” (from Playlist, released 06.01.10)• The Daily Show with Jon Stew-art Episode 15071 (airdate: 06.03.10)• Christina Aguilera, (from Bi-onic, released 06.04.10)• The Bachelorette Season 6, Episode 3 (airdate: 06.07.10)• The 2010 NBA Finals Game 2 (06.06.10)• ABC News, Diane Sawyer inter-views Stephen Hawking (airdate: 06.07.10)

III. [Trust Logs]

PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF MEETS WITH COMMANDER USCENTCOM: (Source: AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 01570, 10 April 07)

New US Central Command Commander, Admiral William J. Fallon, met March 31 with Pakistanti President Pervez Musharraf. They discussed Musharraf’s participation at the recent Arab League Summit. (disap-pointing), Musharraf’s interest in engaging on Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts (as a go-between), his efforts to construct an alliance of moderate Muslim states (slow going), the situation in Iraq (Sunnis need to be given more), continuing concerns about Iran (too unpredictable), and the status of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations and a plea for better understanding of Pakistan’s perspective (can’t trust President Karzai).

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(FRIENDLY ACTION) Cache Found/Cleared Report Artillery: RC NorthTF Warrior North S2Classification: SecretZero Injured/Damaged

December 23, 2009

In the vicinity of Amam Khurd, Sar-e Pol: Sar-e Pol police found a cache of 66 100 milimeter artillery rounds buried in the Amam Khurd neighborhood of Sar-e Pol City. According to the police, the rounds were dumped there by the Russians. They will be turned over to Halo Trust for destruction.

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The source has peripheral access to the Iraqi Islamic party and the Islamic Al-Minar group, as well as eyes and ears access in BasraThe source gained the information through a trusted associate.

Iraq War Logs and Afghanistan War Logs:• https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07ISLAMABAD1570_a.html• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/C083FA15-1517-911C-C5B-9DBE95AE27ADD/• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/0584AC1C-6D30-4E5F-964D-BE62A6BEA293

IV.s/as boy/as a boy

dont wish to be a part of itat least not nowim not readys/as boy/as a boy

i wouldn’t mind going to prison for the rest of my lifeif it wasn’t for the possibility of having pic-tures of me… plastered all over the world press… as boy…

s/as boy/as a boy

the girls call

the CPU is not made for this motherboards/as boy/as a boyim not readys/as boy/as a boyim just kind of drifting now…s/as boy/as a boyim not readys/as boy/as a boyI’m just kind of drifting now…

Manning-Lamo Chat Logs:• http://www.wired.com/2011/07/manning-lamo-logs

Liz Phair, “Girls! Girls! Girls!” (Exile in Guyville, 1993)

V.[A young boy released

several pigeons]

A young boy released several pigeons Pigeons are a likely signaling device.Later during movement, USSF noticed two other possible signaling devices.The first was a separate teenage boy with a mirror,and then in another village a white and red kite was being flown.

Iraq War Logs: • wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/DF47C4F7-461F-47D3-A556-D96B-8BAC3B5C/

VI.JULIAN IN A NUTSHELL

B: What do you ….A: Are you a …B: Are there any …A: You’ve said many times… B: Are you saying … A: When you see … B: Do you fear …A: Julian in a …B: nutshell … Are you a A: journalist?A: What B: do you A: want …B: Are there any instances …A: You’ve said many … B: Are you saying in particular … A: You’ve said many times, ‘smear cam-paign.’ B: Do you feel any state—any government—has a right to any secrets at all?A: Are you saying undue influence on the women… or is it undue influence on the prosecutor? B: When you see references to yourself as anarchic, an anarchist…A: Do you fear that you will end up in an American jail?B: is that an accurate description of what you are? A: [an] undue influence on the women?... I was in the courtroom all these times, and there was talk of forcibly spreading her legs…B: Are you concerned about your safety?A: Holding her down so she couldn’t move…B: Julian in a nutshell what is wikileaks?A: Are you a journalist?B: What do you want to achieve with the release of the video?A: When you see references to yourself as anarchic, an anarchist, is that an accurate description of what you are? B: Do you fear that you will end up in an American jail?A: Would you call yourself a free market proponent?B: Are there any instances [in] diplomacy

or global affairs in which you see secrecy as necessary and as an asset?A: Does that mean you have private sector-focused leaks in the works?B: Well, that’s a very strong charge. A: Are you concerned about your safety?B: And what they’re saying is very strong. A: Megaleaks?B: Do you think that large portions of -- whether it’s the American media or the international media -- have abandoned you… A: Do you think it’s anyone leading the cam-paign against you or is it an opaque group?B: Abandoned you and not come to your defense when people in government call you a high tech terrorist? A: Us? China?B: I’m not arguing…A: How do your leaks … B: Can you give me some examples?A: I’m not arguing you’re a hacker now. B: How do your leaks fit into that?A: Your leak really… B: Megaleaks?A: Really substantially changed the world?B: Us? China?A: Can you give me some examples?B: How do your leaks fit into that?A: Do you think it’s anyone leading the cam-paign against youB: Would you say you’re practicing civil disobedience against breaking the lawA: or is it an opaque group?B: in order to expose greater law-breaking?A: Julian in a nutshell …A: What do you …B: Are you a …B: Are there any …A: You’ve said many times… B: Are you saying … A: When you see …B: Do you fear …A: Julian in a …B: nutshell … Are you a A: journalist?A: WhatB: doA: you B: want?

Interviews with Julian Assange, (04.05.10 - 12.22.10):• The Alyona Show (04.05.10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sYXppiOteM&feature=related• Cenk Uyngur, “The Young Turks” (12.22.10) http://www.theyoungturks.com/sto-ry/2010/12/22/183354/99/Diary/Transcript-of-Cenk-Uygur-s-Ex-clusive-Interview-of-Wikileaks-Founder-Julian-Assange• Richard Stengel, Time Maga-zine (12.01.10)http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040,00.html#ixzz1Gcb9TBO0• Jim Sciutto, ABC News (12.17.10)http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/julian-assange-calls-abc-news-reporter-tabloid-schmuck-12425603 • David Frost, Frost Over the World (Al Jazeera) (12.22.10)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6mcSXge4Qo&NR=1• The Larry King Show, CNN (10.26.10)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSNrrDmUDY• Al Jazeera English (10.22.10) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLeFVVTYWbU&feature=relmfu• Andy Greenberg, Forbes Maga-zine (11.29.10)http://blogs.forbes.com/an-dygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-in-terview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/• TED talk (07.16.2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDdljXDDDuk&feature=related

VII.[CRIMINAL EVENT: MURDER REPORT]

Criminal Event: Murder ReportIn the vicinity of Amin Afandi Sirhan (Route Al Taji):1 Civilian Killed in ActionAugust 1, 2006

1 UNKNOWN FEMALE, (APPROXIMATELY 25 YEARS OLD), WAS FOUND IN AL HUSSAYNIYIA AREA CLOSE TO AN ICE FAC-TORY. SHE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AND SHOWED SIGNS OF TORTURE. THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO JUSTICE MEDICAL.

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Criminal Event: Murder ReportIn the vicinity of Baghdad:2 Civilians Killed in ActionMay 31, 2007

Where: 38SMB 44470 78800 / M840Street: UnknownHouse: UnknownReligious Sect of Victim: UnknownSect of Neighborhood the Body was found in: UnknownVictim shows signs of torture: 1x hands bound1X BODY IS SKELETON APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN HIT IN THE HEAD WITH BLUNT OB-JECT SKULL HAS A LARGE HOLE IN IT AND A LARGE FRACTURE AND HANDS BOUND WITH CLOTH OTHER BODY IS JUST A PILE OF BONES Iraq War Logs:• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/CD2A57FD-E5D4-5737-E37C-325978CBCA50/• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/E12F82C7-D4F6-6278-61DCE5D97B904701/

INTERLUDE:Don’t want to be a part

i encrypt as much as i cannot a single person noticed

i zerofilled the originali don’t want to be a part

i watched that video coldnot a single person noticed

i zerofilled the originali don’t want to be a part


VIII.COMPLEX KEYS

Back to life, back to reality….DoS CIADOD NSAOSINT copy/pastesfalse flag PR games open source Title 10satellite internet Rijndael variantsthis is what i do for friends OGA sent linksLAMP servers sql T W i n k“pink hat” Reykjaviktheres substantial lag i think living such an opaque life I’ve learned my lessons in tightropes.its about securing the keys, using complex keys… (depends on the algorithm… )how safe you keep your private keys MD-DOS .mil squints >shiver< SIPR nowpretty reckless at this pointxanga squints creep me out anarchy in CSVtheres substantial lag i thinkswitches towers DEStrigger happy rednecks brute force PROPHET teamairstrike Gharanidays to break too many chinkstheres substantial lag i think living such an opaque life I’ve learned my lessons in tightropes.its about securing the keys, using complex keys… (depends on the algorithm… )how safe you keep your private keys

Big Boi, “Shutterbugg” (re-leased 6.20.10)


IX. [smoke when bird nears]

smoke when bird nears

smoke when bird nearssmoke when bird nears smokesmoke when bird nears ...birds smoke when bird nears They say, they say, they say they saysmoke when bird nearssmoke when bird nears smoke smoke when bird nears smoke smoke when bird nears They say, they say, they say, they say

smoke I, tears I smoke when bird nears tears I, tears I cannot hide smoke tearssmoke when bird nears I, tears I cannot hide tears smoke when bird nears tears I cannot hide tearssmoke smoke when bird nears something here inside cannot be denied

Afghanistan War Logs:• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/C4766ED8-96DF-CD24-79B973A8BCD52383/

Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” as recorded by Dinah Washington (1955)

X.[The marine that engaged]

The marine that engaged from Post 7 was unable to determine the occupants of the vehicle due to the reflection of the sun in the windshield.

Iraq War Logs:* http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/id/0DB5B033-3131-4080-822E-8B0FAD1C1764/

XI.[We called for illumination at 1630]

IlluminationFor illuminationcalled for illuminationWe called for illuminationWe called for illumination at 1630



1st platoon departed the base at 1600.We called for illumination at 1630.Burst illumination was at 1658.

Afghanistan War Logs:* wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/15FE4F03-DE68-4F24-9B86-5069293BFBF8/

XII.I encrypt as much as I can

I encrypt as much as I canI was short still amVery intelligent could read at threeVery effeminateGlued to a computer screen MSDOS/Windows 3.1 timeframePlayed SimCity obsessively The originalI zerofilled the originalI barely exist

I’m an army intelligence analystI was reduced in rank todayI’m not a violent personI punched a colleague in the faceI’m not braveI’m weakI careI’m not braveI’m weakI’m in more potential heat than you ever were

I keep track of everythingI watch the whole thing unfoldI don’t give specifics unless I have them in front of meI’m an awkward patientI don’t like dogmaI was awestruckI’m a DC guyI’m hereI’m a ghostI’m godlessI’m a messI’m armedI’m crazy like thatI know the feeling.I know I do.I don’t like this person that people seeI behave and look like a male, but it’s not me (CRIMINAL EVENT)but it’s not me MURDER REPORT

but it’s not me 1 Civilian Killed in Actionbut it’s not me January 27, 2009 but it’s not me August 30, 2006 A displaced local national from Little Abu Sayda was removed from his home by the IPs and taken to the palm groves near Abu Gharma and murdered.

but it’s not me (CRIMINAL EVENT)but it’s not me The IPS detained the family.but it’s not me NO DAMAGEbut it’s not me 1 Civilian Killed in Action

Actions have no direct Coalition Forces involvement, therefore do not expect Western media attention. MURDER OF SECURITY GUARD OFF-DUTY In the vicinity of Basrahbut it’s not me (CRIMINAL EVENT) MURDER REPORT January 14, 2007

Unfortunately we have been informed by his colleagues involved in the search (Mohammad Qassim and his family) that they have found Jawad in the Basra City Mortuary.

but it’s not me Religious sect of victim: SUNNI Did Victim show signs of torture: UNKNOWN 141130 TF TOC Received a tip from a trusted source

We cannot 100% verify this information

however from all calls received from trusted employees this indeed seems to be the case

Situation clearly outlines significant problems with the area IP and the populaces ability and/or willingness to trust them.

and I have no-one I trust - There was one moment I guess I was a bit lonely so I opened up the computer and just…. talked.


Iraq War Logs:• http://wikileaks.org/irq/re-port/2009/01/IRQ20090127n12518.html• https://wardiaries.wikileaks.org/id/C91D4B3D-CA8E-4344-AE33-8FBD5CE56220/

Beyoncé, interview in the docu-mentary I AM… World Tour (re-leased 12.26.2010)

composed by ted hearne libretto by mark doten directed by

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