Finding Your Voice Through Predator Songstress

Imagine a time when you lost your voice. What did it look like? Feel like? Sound like? In Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Predator Songstress, performed and recorded in 2015 at On the Boards in Seattle, WA, it looks like Ximena, the protagonist, lying on a stage in a singular box of light—drowning but trying to stay afloat. It feels painful.