64 Libretti

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas
Sound/Light Installation now showing through November 21, 2008

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA 98105 USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp @ jackstraw.org

Creative Team

Sound Byron Au Yong
Light Randy Moss
Video Jean-Stephane

Audio Engineers Tom Stiles, CJ Lazenby

Librettists Eugenie Chan, Bret Fetzer, Aaron Jafferis, Archana Kumar, Carola Luther, Caroline Murphy, Vivian Umino, Edisa Weeks

Singers Josie Davis, Emily Greenleaf, Jeremiah Oliver, David Stutz

Percussionists Stuart McLeod, Dean Moore, Benjamin Morrow, James Whetzel

Project Manager Pike Pin
Costume Designer Emily Carlsen
Videographer Eric Rockey
Research Erica Howard
Logo Wing Fong

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas is thankful for support from Creative Capital's Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; 4Culture's King County Site-Specific Performance Network; Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts; and Jack Straw Productions

23 Bump and Grind

剝 Bō |¦¦¦¦¦

This is the bump and grind.
This is the bump and grind.
Woohoo,
tassles fly.
A spurt.
A squirt.
Mile-high:
glug glug glug.

This is the bump and grind.
This is the bump and grind.
Boom chaka chaka chaka boom.
Boom chaka chaka chaka boom boom boom.

Gimme an H.
H.
Gimme a 2.
2.
Gimme an O.
H2 Oh-oh,

My god.
I’m dripping,
I’m salivating,
positively wet.

Split me.
Split me.
I’m da bomb.
Split me.
Split me.

I’m the big kaboom.

Uranium,
tritium,
plutonioum,
lithium,
bump and grind.

The big H:
H H H H H,
hydrogen,
hydro,
hydro,
gen gen
generation da bomb

Split me.
Ura…
my hands.
Tri…
my eyes.
Plu…
my body
Lith…
my blood.

My god
I’m drip…
I’m sa…
pos…
Wet.

My god my god my god my god.

Gimme air.
Gimme earth.
Gimme fire.
Ohh…
Gimme wa…

The thirst.

Please
Please
Please
Please
Please

A small cup please.


Libretto by Eugenie Chan