Sound designer David Mesiha says audio series Isolation Suite is a new meld of sound, story, and character
Theatre Conspiracy/Rumble Theatre work has just seen the release of a new video for the song “Don’t Start Thinking Too Early”
David Mesiha
The audio series Isolation Suite, a hybrid of indie rock, poetry and drama, is the soundscape of a man coming UnDone: physically, psychologically, spiritually, and even technologically.
"The form of Isolation Suite is interesting because it’s something between a musical and radio play,” says producer, sound designer and music mixer David Mesiha of the Theatre Conspiracy/Rumble Theatre coproduction. “Often in traditional radio plays, sound is about establishing the world, putting you in the environment of the piece. But Isolation Suite allows sound to be treated as a much more internal and fundamentally inseparable part of the dialogue. So Cold Calculi’s songs are organic, not just transitional material, but also fundamental to the character UnDone’s persona that he has crafted and created, emerging from his head in an authentic way.”
The artist points to Ulla Laidlaw’s just-released video for the show’s song “Don’t Start Thinking To Early”. “The song is not really about the character just waking up and struggling to get on with his morning,” says Mesiha. “It’s much more about his mental state, the experience of dealing with an obstructed view, murkiness, fog of thought.”
Mesiha joined Theatre Conspiracy as artistic director in 2020. Check out his larger body of work at Sonic Canvas Design.
Listen to Isolation Suite on isolationsuite.ca, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other places you find your podcasts.
Post sponsored by Rumble Theatre