Elyria is alone, hitchhiking through New Zealand. She has left everything and everyone in her life behind her. As she spends more and more time in her own head, she eventually comes to terms with what it means to escape and the impossibility of escape from herself.
Content Transparency: This production contains the use of theatrical haze, sudden loud noises, and bright flashlights and projectors at audience eye level.
WARNING: This production contains visual stimuli that may cause discomfort and/or seizures for those with epilepsy.
A bold new opera — composed by Tim Holt and inspired by Catherine Lacey’s 2014 novel Nobody Is Ever Missing — is coming to the Voxel this January. You’re welcome to sit or explore the space, following the calls of the soprano soloist, choir, percussionist, and the sounds of other musicians in the distance.
Running time: 50 minutes.
Mind on Fire makes music by living composers and showcases the talents of performing artists, building creative access and collaborative partnerships in Baltimore.
Mind on Fire was founded in 2017 by a small contingent of classical and experimental musicians with a goal to bring new, contemporary classical music back to Baltimore. Mind on Fire takes notated music out of the conservatory and puts it into dialogue with the incredible, radical art ecology of the city. By pairing new classical work with local experimental artists (musicians, poets, dancers, filmmakers, and visual artists), it is our intention to engender a sense of community and camaraderie between a diverse group of art makers and the audiences who follow them.
In the following eight years of operation, they have produced 47 concerts featuring 125 separate performances presented to over 4,500 attendees. When institutional and independent artists work together, the commerce of ideas is often dynamic and surprising. What happens when disparate resources, sensibilities, and expertises are shared in the pursuit of art making? Mind on Fire seeks to answer that question by presenting exceptionally compelling art performances by people of all disciplines and skill levels.