Invocation, a performance piece Laurie and I have been working on for maybe 9 months, finally made it’s debut at URBAN-15 on November 4th, 2016.

Here is some information from the press release:

INVOCATION is a new performance art piece by San Antonio artists Erik Bosse (writer, film-maker, and sound artist) and Laurie Dietrich (writer, photographer, and performance artist). 

An experiment in enhanced storytelling, INVOCATION is comprised of sixty short pieces of flash-fiction, paired with photographs and soundscapes. However, at each show the audience will hear only thirty as, taking turns, the artists will randomly draw numbers during the show which correspond to particular stories, images, and pieces of music or sound effects. As projected images appear and disappear and the soundscape builds—evolving, generative—a story emerges. Your story might be the same as that of the artists or the person sitting next to you, but probably not. Invoking the muses to give shape to these seemingly disparate text selections, images, and sound elements means invoking as many different stories as there are people in the room.


This event is part of URBAN-15’s Sonic Provocation series, an experimental project whose aim is to provide a setting for sound artists to showcase original material, taking it out of the laboratory and into the ears of the public. Sonic Provocation offers artists the creative freedom to present their work beyond the constraints of audience expectation—and in turn offers audiences the opportunity to experience something acoustically different and unique.

Below is a full run, recorded during our final rehearsal. As each performance is different, this is just one of numerous possible iterations.