Sam Scranton and Mocrep respectfully request that you attend The Health, a celebration of the life force. The Health is an evening-length musical ceremony that imagines health not as a property of individual bodies, but as a vital, cosmic force that flows through all things. It suggests that all matter is both beneficiary and victim of the agency and vitality of The Health. Human, virus, cheetah, zebra, rock, water. The Health incorporates forms drawn from the healthcare industry, diagnostic tests, hold music, meditation music, and places them in an expanded musical, visual, theatrical landscape. It asks: if health were an American religion, what might a proper theology look like? What might a ceremony feel like? A cosmology? The Health celebrates the life force in its weight, silliness, and joy.

Runtime: approx 80 minutes. no intermission.

Mocrep and Sam Scranton perform The Health.

The Health was written by Sam Scranton in close collaboration with Mocrep.

Visual, theatrical, lighting, costumes and staged elements devised by Sam Scranton and Mocrep.

About Sam:

Sam Scranton is a composer/performer. He has been described in New Music Box as "an artist taking wholehearted risks" and in the New York Times as a "killer drummer".

Sam plays percussion and electronics in Beautifulish (with Katherine Young), Honestly Same (with Zach Good, Mabel Kwan, Lia Kohl, and Zach Moore) and Physique (with Neil Quigley). He plays with small, amplified objects processed through a synthesizer. Beautifulish released its self-titled debut on Shinkoyo in 2020, and Physique released Curve Totem on Amalgam in 2021.

Sam also composes works for ensembles large and small. Sometimes the works are conceptually driven, sometimes they are concerned with abstract sound. He has worked with ensembles and performers such as Mocrep, Nois~, International Contemporary Ensemble, Jack Quartet, Nadar, Weston Olencki, Spektral Quartet, Gyre Ensemble, ZRL, among others.

Sam has created sound installations with collaborators Natacha Diels, Zach Moore, and Baudouin Saintyves. These have taken the form of a guided tour, a psychedelic waiting room, and swarming sonic creatures.

Sam has presented his work nationally and internationally at festivals, conferences and performance series such as the 2018 Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Indexical, Composit, NUNC! 3, New Music Gathering, the International Conference on Music and Minimalism, Outer Ear Festival, and Omaha Under the Radar. Sam's music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Borealis Festival Radio Space, WFMT, and released by Parlour Tapes+.

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