REDCAT Spring Studio (Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater at Disney Hall)
May 18th 2008
Los Angeles, CA

Sylvia Desrochers, soprano, Paul Cummings Bass
Bruce Gallego, electric guitar, Paul Bailey, Kaossillator and Laptop

Music: Henry Purcell/Paul Bailey
Video: Paul Bailey
Libretto: LA Times Homicide Blog lat.ms/92YkHg

Requiem for a High Homicide Enclave is a mashup based on excerpts from the LA Times Homicide Report which documents murders that takes place in Los Angeles County using blog posts, comments, and Google Maps combined with a deconstruction of Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1694).