2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, The Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Source Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Composed by Ted Hearne Libretto by Mark Doten Directed by Daniel Fish DATES: OCT 22—25 at 7:30pm LOCATION: BAM Fisher (Fishman Space) RUN TIME: Approx 1hr 15min (no intermission) BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Bloomberg is the Season Sponsor Viacom is the BAM 2014 Music Sponsor Leadership support for music at BAM provided by: Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman Pablo J. Salame #THESOURCE BAM Fisher 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL ENSEMBLE Nathan Koci Music Director The Conductor/Keyboard Courtney Orlando Violin Anne Lanzilotti Viola Leah Coloff Cello Source Taylor Levine Guitar Greg Chudzik Bass COMPOSER Ron Wiltrout Drums Ted Hearne PRODUCTION TEAM LIBRETTIST Sarah Peterson Production Manager Mark Doten Jason Kaiser Stage Manager Garth MacAleavey Sound Engineer DIRECTOR Gil Sperling Video Engineer Daniel Fish Philip White Vocal Processing Engineer PRODUCTION DESIGNER Jim Findlay PRODUCER BETH MORRISON PROJECTS VIDEO DESIGNERS Beth Morrison Creative Producer Jim Findlay & Daniel Fish Jecca Barry General Manager Noah Stern Weber Associate Producer LIGHTING DESIGER Kat Castle Production and Christopher Kuhl Administrative Intern COSTUME DESIGNER On Video: Terese Wadden Ernest Acosta, Dwayne Adams, Iones- cu-Ocnita Alexandra-Vasilia, Matthew ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Annenberg, Ed Bak, Hwa-Mi Barnett, Ashley Tata Rommel C. Barns, Rachel Bier, Judy Brick Freedman, Gregory Brown, WORLD PREMIERE Richard Francis Burst-Lazarus, Zorelly BAM 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL Cepeda, Doug Chapman, Thierry OCTOBER 22—25, 2014 Chauvaud, Christina Choe, Michael Christians, Janet D. Clancy, Sebas- Produced by Beth Morrison Projects tien Cornut, Liz Cunningham, Kerstin Czarra, Elana Frankel, Jakeem Dames, VOCALISTS Tessa Dassatti, Maurice Decaul, Cathe- Mellissa Hughes Soprano rine DeGennaro, Emily Edwards, Grace Samia Mounts Soprano Ellis, Shirley Gadson, Armen Garo, Isaiah Robinson Tenor Miranda Greer, Spencer Greer, Amy Jonathan Woody Bass-Baritone Maude Helfer, Matthew Herman, Mark Jaynes, Aja Jones, Joscelyn Jurich, Sue Killam, Kaja Kuehl, Leon LaRose, About The Source Harriet Lauritsen, Kimberly Lawrence, Arin Maya Lawrence, Schecter Lee, Ju- LIBRETTIST’S NOTE lia Leonardos, Jeffrey Lopez, Nadiana The central fact of the classified Lopez, Elizabeth Mason, Karl Mattson, materials that Chelsea (formerly Greg McHale, Belinda McKeon, Julia Bradley) Manning leaked is their Melnick, Jon Moccio, Corinn Moreno, almost ungraspable scope. They George Mott, Elizabeth Natal, Jay M. include 483,000 army field reports Newman, Stephanie Newman, Arelle from Iraq and Afghanistan and Oberlander, Christopher O’Halloran, 251,000 diplomatic cables; these Wayne Paul, Riley Peters, Hannah were released, along with video of a Pivo, Lara Quiñones, Medhat Rizk, US airstrike in Baghdad, by WikiLeaks Judith A. Roberts, Meghan Robertson, and its media partners in 2010. The Jakeem Roman, Rob D. Rudolph, reporting at the time focused less Grace Schultz, Darryn Sinkler, Yvonne on what the leaks revealed about Slater, Juan Torres, Giselle Ty, Flor M America’s conduct of wars and Vidal, Stephen Winter, Chris Yu. diplomacy than on the personalities involved. While I believe that the The Source was commissioned by content of the leaks is more important BETH MORRISON PROJECTS and than any individual—including JUDY & ALLEN FREEDMAN, with Manning—there are several players additional commissioning support from who were integral to the events; brief JUSTUS & HELEN SCHLICHTING. descriptions of them are below. The Source is made possible by the CHELSEA MANNING (FORMERLY MAP Fund, a program of Creative BRADLEY MANNING) is a US army Capital, primarily supported by the private responsible for the largest Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with public leak of classified information additional funds from the Andrew W. in American history. She was arrested Mellon Foundation, and the New York in May, 2010, and in August, State Council on the Arts with the sup- 2013, was sentenced to 35 years’ port of Governor Andrew Cuomo and imprisonment on numerous counts the New York State Legislature. of espionage, theft, and computer fraud, as well as several military The Source was supported by New infractions. She is serving her sentence Music USA, made possible by annual at the US Disciplinary Barracks at program support and/or endowment Fort Leavenworth. Following her gifts from Andrew W. Mellon Founda- sentencing, she made public her tion, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable transgender status and requested the Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, treatments necessary for her gender William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, dysphoria; these treatments have thus Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, far been withheld. Anonymous. Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation. ADRIAN LAMO is a former hacker who gained notoriety in the early Residency support was provided by 2000s for breaking into the computer MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. networks of Worldcom, Yahoo!, and other corporations—he would expose The libretto is sourced primarily from security vulnerabilities, and then offer the contents of the leaks themselves his services to the companies to help (diplomatic cables, the “Iraq War Logs” them patch their weaknesses. After and the “Afghan War Diary”), and hacking The New York Times, Lamo from Manning’s side of the Manning/ was the subject of an investigation by Lamo chats published by Wired.com. federal prosecutors. He pleaded guilty Other sources include tweets from to a count of felony computer crimes in Lamo regarding his decision to turn 2004, for which he was sentenced to in Manning, an array of questions six months of house arrest and ordered that journalists have posed to to pay restitution. Julian Assange, and selections from interviews, radio, and social media, Just prior to her arrest, Manning drawn primarily from the same time sought out Lamo online, drawn by period as the leaks. his reputation as a hacker, his public —Mark Doten support of WikiLeaks, and possibly his sexual orientation (Manning was aware COMPOSER’S NOTE that Lamo is bisexual and had worked One common trait of the Manning- for LGBT rights in the 1990s). The Lamo Chat Logs and the leaked two engaged in a far-ranging online documents from Iraq and Afghanistan chat, during which Manning spoke of is that every event is marked with a the leaks, as well as her feelings about timestamp. An audio sample, too, herself, her gender identity, life in the is a kind of timestamp: one specific Army, US foreign policy, secrecy, and collection of sounds, singular and her hopes that her actions would lead unique, and reproducible in a way to “worldwide discussion, debates, and that could never be possible with live reforms.” Lamo reported her to the musicians in real time. Every time we authorities, which led to her arrest on hear a sample, we know it originates May 27, 2010 at her base in eastern from a separate context, and in this Iraq. way its “pastness” is emphasized. So, when samples are used in this JULIAN ASSANGE is the co-founder music, I consider it an interaction and and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, and engagement with history. was at the center of a firestorm of attention and controversy during the And how do we engage with the release of the material provided by source of a sample? A pre-recorded Manning. In 2012, facing extradition sound may bring up a rich world of from the UK to Sweden for alleged cultural and historical associations for sexual offenses, he was granted one listener while being heard as an asylum by Ecuador and has lived in the unencumbered sonic object to another. Ecuadorean embassy in London since The many layers of meaning that exist that time. The material provided by in a sample make it impossible for Manning remains the most significant one listener (or composer) to grasp leak in the history of the organization. all of them. This reminds me of the complexity we face when processing multiple sources of information. 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL About the auto-tune: I developed this photos. interactive use of vocal processing with composer Philip White, in our work as the vocal/electronics duo R WE WHO R WE. I think of the auto-tune in The Source as a reflection of the self. It may be an image filtered through endless data on a computer screen, or one neutralized by the distance between Brooklyn and Iraq, or an image of the person we (or Manning) would be if we could play the roles that are expected of us. —Ted Hearne DIRECTOR’S NOTE What do people look like when they look at the leaks? What do people look like when they are looking? When I began working on The Source, I was struck by the sheer volume of material Manning helped make public. It felt impossible to look at it all and yet to not look at it felt like a failure of responsibility. Jim Findlay and I filmed nearly 100 people as they watched a very small part of what Manning exposed. The resulting footage makes up the main visual element of the production. I’m grateful to those people whose generosity with their time, their faces, their emotions, and their myriad ways of looking and being looked at make the visual content of The Source possible. —Daniel Fish Special thanks to Joe Melillo, Alexander Papachristou, Anne Detjen, Daniel Baldini, Rachel Chanoff and The Office, Jim Nicola and Linda Chapman at NYTW, Sue Killam and the Performing Arts Department at MASS MoCA, and Alexandra Kuechler- Caffall. photos: Screen captures, Wikileaks 2014 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL include works for the San Francisco Symphony, Flux Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, eighth blackbird, and Yarn/Wire. Who’s tedhearne.com MARK DOTEN Who Librettist Mark Doten has had his writing TED HEARNE appear in Conjunctions, Guernica, The Composer Believer, and New York magazine.