Carnelian is a contemporary mythology, created as an artifact for a deep future. Named for the stone, which is believed to give courage in speaking, Carnelian is an eclectic musical work that exists as film, live performance, and album. In three acts – Dawn, Afternoon, Dusk – three characters await the imminent arrival of a cataclysmic event, referred to as the “Boom.” 

With songs and script written by Brown and co-composed by Samuel Beebe, the work offers a complex take on contemporary conditions marked by polarizing rhetoric, authoritarian structures, and the looming threat of human extinction. Brown based the characters — Necyria, Orachrysops, and Bicyclus, and the Auctioneer — on archetypes associated with the animistic qualities ascribed to fire, earth, air, and the void. Each character contends with their own definition of power, whether it be natural, political, technological, or spectacular. 
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