Tri-Stan
Eric Moe, Suzie Silver.
Video Projections, 2005

Video projections for Tri-Stan, a sit-trag/concert monodrama by Eric Moe.

Pittsburgh City Paper Review (PDF)

Excerpt of projected video (Mpeg-4, ~29.5 Mb)

Press Release
   Pitt professor Eric Moe ' s new monodrama, Tri-Stan , is a sit-trag/concert monodrama for mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger and ten players. The project is a setting of “ Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko ” by David Foster Wallace, a piece of short fiction from his collection Brief interviews with hideous men , an updated retelling of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Classical myths are recombined and imbedded in a matrix of mass-media and high culture: 1980 ' s-TV meets grand opera - the Brady Bunch goes to The Ring . Moe ' s work features video projections by multi-media artist Suzie Silver, currently a member of Carnegie Mellon ' s faculty. The program will also include Roberto Sierra ' s Cancionero Sefardi , and Sequitur director Harold Meltzer's Exiles.

   Nessinger and New York' s highly regarded Sequitur Ensemble will perform the work in Pittsburgh on Sunday, March 27, at 8 PM in Pitt ' s Bellefield Hall Auditorium. Tickets through ProArts are $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors, Call 412.394.3353 or visit www.proartstickets.org Tickets at the door are $15 and $10. Pitt students are admitted free.

   Eric Moe ' s music is well known to Pittsburgh audiences. As a composer of what the NY Times calls “ music of winning exuberance ” , Moe has received numerous grants and awards for his work, including the Lakond Award from th American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fromm Foundation, Meet-the-Composer USA, and the Koussevitzky Foundation, fellowships from the Wellesley Composer ' s Conference and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, the Montana Artists Refuge and the American Dance Festival.

   Suzie Silver is an artist working primarily in video and performance. Her work, The Happiest Day recently screened at Pittsburgh FilmMakers. Other works have screened at the New Museum and Whitney Museum in New York; the Worldwide Video Festival in The Hague; Documenta IX Video Festival, Kassel; the London Film Festival; The Moscow Film Festival, gay and lesbian film and video festivals in Austin, Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv; and dozens of other venues worldwide.

   Sequitur takes the next step in performing and recording new and unusual music, linking it to the worlds of theater, visual art and dance. As the “ perfect ensemble ” for theatrical music (Time Out New York ), Sequitur ventures from the concert hall into clubs like The Knitting Factory, cabaret spaces like Joe ' s Pub, and performance spaces like Theatre 80 St. Marks. “ Renowned for its smartly integrated programs ” (The New Yorker), Sequitur attracts new audiences for contemporary music with challenging events that draw listeners in and place composers in context without limiting them.