Dis­tant Res­o­nances Tril­o­gy

Res­o­nance holds dual sig­nif­i­cance for us: musi­cal­ly, it describes the inter­ac­tion of sounds and vibra­tions; social­ly, it cap­tures the inter­play between peo­ple and their ideas, opin­ions, and actions. In social and cul­tur­al con­texts, res­o­nance man­i­fests as agree­ment, rejec­tion, sup­port, or resistance—connecting with audi­ences’ exist­ing pat­terns while either recon­fig­ur­ing them or intro­duc­ing some­thing fun­da­men­tal­ly new.

“Dis­tance Res­o­nance” is a three-year con­cep­tu­al project explor­ing res­o­nances that emerge from medi­at­ed and per­son­al con­nec­tions to dis­tant events, deci­sions, peo­ple, and geographies—and how these rever­ber­ate into the here and now. We, the music the­ater col­lec­tive “Sound­ing Sit­u­a­tions,” aim to cre­ate a res­o­nant space link­ing the simul­tane­ity of live per­for­mance with glob­al occur­rences by trans­mit­ting ideas, sound, and artis­tic inquiries. Through this mutu­al “set­ting into vibra­tion,” our projects inter­weave polit­i­cal events, social urgen­cies, and emo­tion­al encoun­ters.

Con­ceived as artis­tic research, the project com­pris­es three dis­tinct per­for­mance for­mats: a mul­ti-per­spec­tive music the­ater pro­duc­tion (Wag­n­er World­wide- Kamp­nagel, Tischlerei/​Deutsche Oper), a silent dis­co music the­ater piece for pub­lic space (War Whis­pers — Kamp­nagel, BAM Fes­ti­val, Berlin), and a music the­ater work (Here Comes the Sun /​ Secret Sun — Nord­wind Fes­ti­val, Kamp­nagel). These for­mats respec­tive­ly address media res­o­nances, res­o­nances of con­nect­ed­ness, and res­o­nances of the self.