Thoughts on Music Choice

Part of my goal with this project was to create a submersive experience despite the fragmented nature of it and I feel like the music choice is important as it's the one piece of the puzzle that the audience gets to hear as a whole.

The text aspect represents a fleeting moments throughout a longer time frame of Medea's life as well as the occasional insight into her thought process. The video montage works more specifically to highlight happy moments in her life with Jason before he left her for the Princess. The tableaux/dance highlights the actions laid out in the play - a slightly closer look at a pivotal junction in Medea's life. I wanted the music choice to retain a distinctly opposite feeling from the video montage of happy moments.

I have no doubt that the choice of Darling Violetta's "I Want to Kill You" balances the happy home movie vibe and still provides a very plausible insight into Medea's mind, similar to the way that the Greek chorus often seems to know what's about to happen, what she's thinking and what the final outcome will be while at the same time still watching in enthralled horror. It's almost as though the Greek chorus in Euripides' play has an ancient Greek version of "I Want to Kill You" playing in their heads, mapping out the tragedy to come, but like modern day rubber-neckers, they still just stand by to watch the wreckage and exclaim over the bodies.

My only concern is that the music selection could be a bit distracting to the action occurring below on the Ground Floor. Since it shouldn't be played at an overpowering level, it should really just be like a background noise... above a whisper, but still retaining that quality to an extent.

I am still toying with just playing an instrumental piece, but I'm now 95% sure that Darling Violetta is the way I want to go.

Lyrics for "I Want to Kill You"

I...want...to...kill...you
When you least expect it
I'll bash your brains in
When you least expect it

You're afraid of flying
Afraid of losing your mind
But I don't want to know you
Now there's no time

It's both a lovely and a fearful thing
To be captured by all of your feelings
(CHORUS)
I breathe into you
Into you

You run to me and
Don't even know my name
Desire's slowly becoming
Your great escape

You let me wonder
Now I'll let you burn
I promise nothing
But still you return to me
(CHORUS)
I breathe into you
I breathe into you
You are real

I am walking through the morning
Dandelion stares in my eyes
I wish you were caught by now
I'm afraid of what they'll find
Take the box of magic
Lay it in the back of your mind
Can we wash in the morphine
After we eat we'll be fine
You're the lonely lovers
I've only known a few
Take me within and you'll know what love is...easy
Let me watch you dance
Let me watch you sleep
Kiss her with your tongue
And you'll crawl to me again
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
(CHORUS)
I breathe into you
I breathe into you
You are real
I breathe into you
I breathe into you
You are real