Sounding Situations

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Near My Ears

To be in a time of war”, a text by the Lebanese philoso­pher Etel Adnan. Adnan, is the start­ing point for a ram­ble through the streets of a city cen­ter. Simul­ta­ne­ous to war reports and world events, tourists stream towards the city cen­ter, home­less peo­ple, work­ing peo­ple, chil­dren at play, par­ty-goers, fol­low their every­day lives. As a mobile music the­ater, […] Details
live audio walk through a city with local musi­cians and text by Etel Adnan

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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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ZERO, Land der Zukun­ft

Live audio walk with live music con­nec­tion to Sal­vador da Bahia, inde­pen­dent­ly acces­si­ble with own smart­phone cre­at­ed on invi­ta­tion to Dystopia Fes­ti­val Berlin Brazil 2020 — a col­lab­o­ra­tion with matthaei&konsorten and Sound­ing Sit­u­a­tions Details
mobile con­cert walk com­mis­sioned by Dystopia Fes­ti­val Berlin 2020

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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

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CERN‑a

is a project to research fun­da­men­tal struc­tures of acoustic par­ti­cles with­in dif­fer­ent glob­al envi­ron­ments. The par­ti­cles are made to col­lide togeth­er at close to the speed of light. The process gives the researchers clues about how the par­ti­cles inter­act, and pro­vides insights into the fun­da­men­tal laws of artis­tic nature. Details
Vila Sul Res­i­den­cy /​ Robert Bosch schol­ar­ship