PRESS
Press for sound designs by charles hagaman
“[The] sound design... provides a microscopic amplification that furthers the journey into characters’ minds we wouldn’t otherwise enter.
Rarely, if ever, does every element — score, text, singers, instrumentalists, conductor, director, sets, costumes, lighting, sound design — all come together. This is that rarity.”
The Los Angeles Times reviews TRADE/Mary Motorhead by Emma O’Halloran (04/28/2023)
“Train with No Midnight (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)… plunged audiences into a pungent, purgatorial cabaret world that totally immersed and mesmerized me. David Lynch would have been proud.
Interludes reviews Train with No Midnight by Joseph Keckler (01/18/2019)
“[The music] is rather wonderful, weaving a richly melismatic vocal line into a strikingly coloured orchestral score delicately enhanced by electronic effects. Never sterile or mechanical, it seems to have a living organic pulse.”
The Telegraph reviews The Wanton Sublime by Tarik O’Regan (08/27/2015)
“With the electronics wizardry of Charles Hagaman altering her utterances in real time, [Lucy] Shelton’s resonance circulated throughout the room, drawing the audience into a world of antiquity, yet hypnotically articulated by contemporary technology.”
Seen and Heard International reviews Voices by John Chowning (09/16/2015)
