Encryption

- a solo performance with sound by Stephen Pruitt.

Every moment you exist your brain is filtering out thousands of bits of information it deems unnecessary to your survival. At all moments of your life, you are surrounded by wildly fluctuating electrical currents floating through the air, each one of them carrying things like music, ideas, secret codes, pictures, love letters… all of it flowing through you, right now. We perceive most of the world around us only when a small part of it – the smell of coffee, the sound of an air conditioner kicking on, a glint of light off a window – draws our attention to it. There is an enormous amount of information that we never perceive, but surfaces anyway… in dreams, myths, distractions. Encryption is an exploration of what lies on the edges when we’re not paying attention. It involves stories about late night DJs, flying monsters and ufos, secret codes, short wave radios, and yes, death. Oh, and it’s funny too.