Derek Phillips and I collaborated on a production of John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing, initially for the celebration of Cage’s centennial. We then staged the piece at Stanford University for the Performance Studies International conference in 2013.

“Derek Phillips’s soundscape is as eerie and playful as Hunter’s performance of the text.  In the fashion of Cage’s work creating sounds from found objects, Phillips rubs a stone across one microphone, then crumples leaves in front of another. These sounds—the sounds that Cage continually proclaims he loves so much—fill the room with a sense of aural homage…Hunter’s eyes dart, delightedly, around the audience. His delivery is perfectly playful. They loop and thread themselves within and between the text, becoming, simultaneously, nothing other than themselves and something very much beyond themselves.” – Rebecca Chaleff, PSI 19 Performance Blog