Ototoi (2015) by Kate Soper by Ogni Suono published on 2017-01-03T04:13:07Z performed at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI October 28, 2016 Noa Even & Phil Pierick, saxophones OTOTOI (transliterated Greek) is an onomatopoetic cry of wild distress and is the first utterance out of the mouth of Kassandra in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Her gift of foresight has brought her unimaginable horror: she is buffeted with the vision of her imminent murder by Clytemnestra, who describes Kassandra as “a swallow, possessed of her own barbaric song, strange, dark.” As the agonized girl pours out mangled descriptions of atrocities, one wonders about the construction of her inner reality: how does she receive these visions, and what is the sound of the voice that brings them? Ototoi uses the two players, their instruments and their voices, to dramatize this dialogue between the supernatural whisperings of the future and the muttering dread of the present. —Kate Soper
