alana amore colvin

Structured around a set libretto and a score live-composed by experimental free-improvisers, FOUR PORTRAITS follows an amateur-scholar-river-hermit as he is evicted from his cabin by a social worker and distracted by visions of three historic women: the innovative, 16th c. English translator Lucy Hutchinson; the San José-based Ur-radio-DJ Sybil M. True Herrold; and the Jamaican BBC radio host Una Marson. All the while, their friendship grows, as does the scorn of the people of Headsprutt.