The Sour Thunder

From Rhizome Artbase
Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)
2002
Description

The Sour Thunder is a multimedia, science fiction opera that is performed simultaneously in two separate venues, with video and sound from both performances streamed to the web. The opera narrates parallel stories about language and migration using augmented, acoustic instruments and electronically processed vocals.

Rhizome staff
2021

The Sour Thunder tells a double-sided story blending autobiography and speculative fiction. Sesom travels from a land where scent is language to a land where language is spoken. Mendi travels from Atlanta (the US) to Santiago (the DR). The Sour Thunder explores the role of geography in identity and the idea of language as a technology.

Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)
2 September 2002
Legacy descriptive tags
Narrative, Conceptual, social space, performance, live, language, identity, broadcast, audio, RealPlayer, MP3, HTML
Attribution: Rhizome staff
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2002
Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)