CMP: Max Murray, Georgic
Georgic is an evening-length work of music theater created by Max Murray.
Taking the plains landscape as its subject, Georgic is a foreboding reflection on the nineteenth century pastoral imaginary. Each of the three performers is both musician and actor, situated in the field of a work-encompassing fixed media component — pre-recorded sound and image both engulfing, and articulated by, the concentrated actions of the live performers moving within a starkly reduced scenic disposition.
Max Murray holds a PhD in music composition with a secondary field of study in Critical Media Practice (CMP) from Harvard. The development of the multimedia performance Georgic was supported by ArtLab during the 2021-2022 academic year, while Murray was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Music. This work was performed at ArtLab by Richard Craig, Noëlle-Anne Darbellay, and Samuel Stoll.