“Psychic Driving surrounds the audience with a hallucinatory landscape of audio surveillance, hospital sonification, and clandestine broadcasts, inspired by the CIA brainwashing experiments of the 1950s, in which subjects were force-fed LSD then played looped audiotapes. Four performers chatter, sing, and nosedive from desks in an intricate physical and musical score that seamlessly combines musical samples with live performers” —HERE Arts Center

Psychic Driving is an evening-length piece that mashes up musical sampling and physical theater to reflect on sound in the modern age of brainwashing and torture. The piece was shown in parts as a work-in-progress at HERE's Culturemart Series in 2015, and was further developed through a Puffin grant and workshops at Bennington College. It was a finalist for the MAP Grants.

Performers: Genevieve Belleveau, Michael Chinworth, Joanne Hyun, Kamala Sankaram