Practice
Whitney George is a composer, conductor, and interdisciplinary artist whose music traverses the affective terrain between tragedy and ecstasy, fragility and strength — bringing together romantically delicate intimacy and the spectacular darkness of the macabre. The work is haunted by ghosts and/of love, and coloristically explores the mysteries of irrationality, nightmare, and memory, sonically seeking lost objects and hidden subjects.
Across installation, stage, and film, she builds environments to be inhabited rather than watched — 1919 New Orleans under a serial killer's shadow, a 1920s speakeasy in literary Harlem, a Chinatown family inside the 1900 Bubonic Plague, a princess fleeing a tower in a Grimm-descended court. Source, setting, and image move through ensemble writing, operatic structures, scored theatre, radio drama, and film score, and often back again.
