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synesthesia

2010

a game of artistic telephone across the genres

April 21 – May 1

“… strangely prophetic…” – NY Times

In October 2009, a composer/lyricist team was asked to select a fortune cookie. They created a piece based on the fortune. Two weeks later, they presented their work to the next artist in the series. This artist then had two weeks to create a piece based on the work shown to him (never having seen the fortune), and then presented his art to the next artist. She then created a piece…and then another artist, and then another artist… eventually, ten in all.

From April 21st – May 1st 2010, the assembled works of all ten artists will be presented live, in-sequence, at the
Wild Project in New York City’s East Village.

“Electric Pear Productions has taken the grade-school game of Telephone to a new level.”
– Time Out New York

Witness the next stage in the convergence of media. Now in its fourth season, Synesthesia is a live, annual event which unites a select and diverse range of arts and artists for four days only. Synesthesia is an Electric Pear exclusive production, conceived by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan, and staged for the first time in 2007. This year’s show will offer up an evening of original music, theatre, art, film, dance…and surprises!

THE SYNESTHESIA 2010 ARTISTS:

Ari Hest (Singer/Songwriter Extraordinaire)
Jon Morris /Windmill Factory (Fuerzabruta’s Running Man)
Brent Arnold (Electric Looping Cellist)
Mariana Elder & Andrew Elsesser (Musical Theatre’s Next Hot Team)
Thomas Doyle (Micro Sculpture Artist)
Meghan Frederick (Superphysical Dancer/Choreographer)
Brian Bustos (B’way Costume Designer)
Stone Cold Fox (UCB’s House Sketch Comedy Team)
Tariq Cherkaoui (Animator and Motion Graphic Artist)
The Mayhem Poets (Spoken Word/Slam Poet Dream Team)
Joel Bravo (Indie Rock Interstitial Music)
and Adam Ramsey (Mixologist)!!