Mirrored to the Core
Mirrored to the Core (MttC) is a fictional account of what could happen when two voice hearing lovers (schizophrenics) telepathically link up. When Paddock was younger, he would hear original orchestrated compositions that were like nectar in his head. These were a form of ‘voices’ as heard by other people who hear voices sometimes too.
So, when the opera director Rosalind Parker contacted him about a collaboration, he agreed to offer up his current project MttC; a love story about telepathy. Both Parker and Paddock wanted to present the heard voices in the form of operatic voices/opera singing connecting to Paddock’s experience of hearing music as voices.