The Sour Thunder

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artist: Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)

inception: 2002

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The Sour Thunder is a multimedia, science fiction opera that is performed simultaneously in two separate venues, with video and sound from both performances streamed to the web. The opera narrates parallel stories about language and migration using augmented, acoustic instruments and electronically processed vocals.

attributed to: Rhizome staff

inception: 2021

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The Sour Thunder tells a double-sided story blending autobiography and speculative fiction. Sesom travels from a land where scent is language to a land where language is spoken. Mendi travels from Atlanta (the US) to Santiago (the DR). The Sour Thunder explores the role of geography in identity and the idea of language as a technology.

attributed to: Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)

inception: 2 September 2002

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Narrative, Conceptual, social space, performance, live, language, identity, broadcast, audio, RealPlayer, MP3, HTML

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artist: Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)

title: The Sour Thunder

inception: 2002

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access URL: http://www.blacknetart.com/sour

inception: 2002

associated with: Mendi+Keith Obadike (Mendi Lewis Obadike, Keith Obadike)