Snapshots from the performance (Veronica Lam and Pam Ascroft)

Audio Examples from "What happened after"

Example 1 (MP3, 1.2 MB)

Example 2 (MP3, 995 KB)

Example 3 (MP3, 2.6 MB)

Video Example (QTime, 1.6MB)

The complete scene lasts for 7'40".

Snapshots from the video component (click to enlarge)

Duration: ca. 45'

is a one-child multimedia opera written in collaboration with Veronica Lam and Pamela Ascroft.

The composition is based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
It is orchestrated for a child performer, female voice, bouncing and scratching super balls, plastic corrugated tubes, percussion, piano, video, black lights, and electronics.

Through the series of scenes, the audience becomes a part of the transformational process in which the main character Gerda searches for Kay, her universal reflection. The omnipresent Snow Queen embodies (human) nature in its pure and, perhaps, appealingly dangerous and destructive beauty.

SCENES
1. Enchanted Mirror
2. A little boy and a little girl
3. At the summer garden
4. Prince and princess
5. The little robber girl
6. The Lapland and Finland women
7. At the Snow Queen Castle
8. What happened next

Pamela Ascroft composed the narration. The majority of the texts used in the scenes originate in the following poems written by Veronica Lam.

1. A little boy and a little girl
Hey that’s mine!
NO, it’s not!
Yes, it is!
NO, it’s the government!
I’ll BUY it!!
You can’t buy it. It’s already PAID FOR!
I’M GONNA TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND BUY IT!!
No you’re not! I’m telling the teacher that you are Mojo Jojo in disguise!!!

2. At the summer garden
Pollen, pollen in the air--
who is fairer than fair.
Pretty petal, pretty as poison
you are the prettiest!

3. Prince and princess
Oh you know what?
The princess never takes a bath!
And neither does the prince
And they stink up the long path.
Oh you know what?
The princess doesn't know math!
And neither does the prince
And they think 1 plus 1 is three.
Oh you know what? The princess picks her nose
And gives it to the prince
And he thinks it's just fine!

4. The little robber girl
In a forest
A wooden cottage
is what I steal the best
I keep the horse and carriages
and throw away the rest.
In a forest
A lonely carpet
is all that I have left.
I keep the horse and carriages
and throw away the rest.

5. The Lapland and Finland women
Hello, How is the stealery today?
Very fine confectionary, with not how what.
Well, then it is adversary to rant and rave!
Huggalugga convulsion to you.

6. A Wish
I wish there was a place called love
where true friends eat raspberries
and swing into the sky and nothing bad happens.