It's not only that the spectacular lighting and sound designs of Adam Silverman and Gregory Clarke rip up the stage with shadows and flashes and rumbles.
There is no clear intent to "Four Voices, Inside Out," set to music by Blindman Kwartet with sound designs by Erin Nicholls and Mr. Yarden.
The show, which can be an adrenaline rush, is best appreciated as a sort of overblown music video with stark lighting, billowing smoke and headache-inducing sound designs.
More recently the younger Mr. Adams, 26, has been living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he pursues his wide-ranging interests, including playing bass in new-music groups and creating sound designs for multimedia works.
For "Coastlines," an exhibit of land and sea images that will open on April 25, students from the University of Texas at Dallas are composing interpretive sound designs that will be played on speakers throughout the show.
It's a tricky task that Ms. Menkes accomplishes through long takes and wide-angle compositions, layered sound designs and oblique editing schemes, all of which make time and space seem like subjective dimensions, vulnerable to the warping effects of mood and memory.
