“They do sing, but they’re not breaking the fourth wall.”
The album will give audiences a chance to hear some of the songs more fully.
Butler describes the 1970s as the height of the recording industry in terms of technological possibility.
Stereophonic album cover.Playwrights Horizons
“It’s been downhill from there.
In terms of quality, we’re still using microphones and wiring [from then].
The sequence of electrons was established in the seventies.”
Juliana Canfield in STEREOPHONIC.Julieta Cervantes
“This is the era where sound is the composition,” he adds.
“You’re composing in sound, you’re composing in electrons etched onto a tape.
That’s your oil paint.
The cast of ‘Stereophonic’.Julieta Cervantes
How those electrons come out of the speakers is the composition more than notes on the page.”
The cast of ‘Sterephonic’.Julieta Cervantes
