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Merge /​ Buzzing Bridge

The music the­ater MERGE plays with how the process of record­ing makes us who we are – how real and fic­tive record but­tons, rep­e­ti­tion, sounds, music, and lan­guage cre­ate our iden­ti­ties. In a pho­to­graph from 1906, a crowd in south­ern Rwan­da gath­ers for a mag­i­cal event in front of a small appa­ra­tus on a table. Behind the table is an […] Details
two indi­vid­ual pieces on col­lec­tive­ly gath­ered infor­ma­tions are per­formed simul­ta­ne­ous­ly on Kamp­nagel Ham­burg /​ Elis­a­bethkirche Berlin and Buja Sans Taboo, Bujum­bu­ra

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Rwan­dan Records

Rwan­dan Records is a sound instal­la­tion, record­ing stu­dio, radio play, archive and live con­cert all at once. It com­bines pre-colo­nial his­to­ry with sto­ries from the present and invites the audi­ence to immerse them­selves in the sto­ries shared by Rwan­da and Ger­many from a per­son­al and glob­al per­spec­tive. Details
pre­miered at Haus der Kul­turen der Welt, and fur­ther per­formed at Kamp­nagel Ham­burg. The musicthe­atre piece inau­gu­rat­ed the per­form­ing arts space at Hum­boldt­fo­rum Berlin

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Tran­form­ing Trans­mis­sion

The walk-in music the­atre piece “Trans­form­ing Trans­mis­sion” com­bines Hamburg’s colo­nial past with sto­ries from the area of the East African Great Lakes. The audi­ence itself becomes the orches­tra on its way through HafenCi­ty. The sound­track is cre­at­ed for each per­for­mance as a live stream con­cert with musi­cians in Ham­burg and Bujum­bu­ra. Details
mobile music the­atre hap­pen­ing at Kamp­nagel Ham­burg and Buja sans taboo, Bujum­bu­ra simul­ta­ne­ous­ly

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Mus­rar­opera

“Mus­rar­opera” is a mobile-radio­phon­ic-opera devel­oped in a his­tor­i­cal­ly charged quar­ter of Jerusalem, lay­ing between fan­cy shops, the Pales­tin­ian area of Damuskus Gate and the ultra­ortho­dox Mea Shearim. Mus­rara is a mir­ror of the city, Israel and the com­plex­i­ty of the Mid­dle East, inhab­it­ed by peo­ple of divers cul­tur­al, reli­gious and polit­i­cal back­grounds, keep­ing the explo­sive coex­is­tence of the […] Details
Win­ner of the Music Thetare Now Price 2018 as one of the 10 best inter­na­tion­al exper­i­men­tal musicthe­atre pieces between 2015–18
select­ed for the arts res­i­den­cy of Nag­ger school of arts and soci­ety, Jerusalem