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Jul 24
Artist Taryn Simon: The Art Of Mourning
Louisiana Channel released the documentary about Taryn Simon and her sound installation “Start Again The Lament” which I helped her realize in the Cisternerne Kopenhagen.
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Jul 24
Samson Live Stream
On July 12, “Samson” was broadcast live on Arte.tv:
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Jul 24
Today’s Premiere in Aix-en-Provence: SAMSON
Today, the opera “Samson” by and after Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) celebrates its world premiere at the Theatre L’Archêveché in Aix-en-Provence.
Info: https://festival-aix.com/en/programmation/opera/samson
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Jun 24
Be Safe With Us
At the end of June, Gesche Piening will be premiering a new theater work in Zirka, the center for interdisciplinary spatial and cultural work in the Kreativquartier, where she will set up a theater course of six panic rooms in which the audience can take a one-hour tour in a risk-free environment to confront their fears, examine their perceptions and become aware of their multi-layered need for protection, stability and security.
I have contributed a bit of music to this, including the one heard in the trailer.
World premiere
Friday, June 28, 2024 from 3.30 pm
Saturday, June 29, 2024 from 3.30 pm
at ZIRKA (Dachauer Str. 110 c, 80636 Munich)
The course starts every 10 minutes from 3.30 pm and lasts 60 minutes from start to finish.
Tickets are available here:
t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/shop/hochx-theater-und-live-art=sei+uns+sicher
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Apr 24
Samson Sound Design Recordings
A wonderfully productive night recording session with the fantastic percussionist Mathias Lachenmayr in his pop up studio. We recorded unusual sounds from percussion instruments, for example played with super ball, for the upcoming „Samson“ music theatre piece conceived and directed by Claus Guth to be premiered 5th of July at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, composed and conducted by Raphael Pichon.
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Mar 24
Another day in the office
Hello from the huge Copenhagen cistern, where I am currently realizing Taryn Simon’s large-scale sound installation “Start Again The Lament“.
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Sep 23
Farewell, Doppelgänger
Farewell, Doppelgänger, I’m heading home. Thank you, Claus Guth, for the trust you have given me. Thank you Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch for your incredible talent and musical beauty, and again for trusting me. Thank you Park Avenue Armory for making this project possible by giving trust to Claus and Jonas.
In the end, isn’t it always about trust?
Thank you Mark Grey, Michael Levine, Urs Schönebaum, Roland Harvath, Yvonne Gebauer, Sommer Ulrickson, Constance Hoffmann and Juana Restrepo and many more for being great collaborators!
Performance photos by Monika Rittershaus.
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Sep 23
About Doppelgänger in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Thanks to Jutta Czeguhn for this beautiful article about our “little” endeavor here in New York.
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Aug 23
Doppelgänger @ Armory Hall, NYC
Schubert’s “Swan Song” as music theater
World premiere Sept 22, 2023, Park Avenue Armory, New York City
with Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor) and Helmut Deutsch (Piano)
Direction Claus Guth
Set Design Michael Levine
Costume Design Constance Hoffman
Lighting Design Urs Schöenebaum
Sound Composition Mathis Nitschke
Sound Design Mark Grey
Video Design rocafilm
Movement Direction Sommer Ulrickson
Dramaturgy Yvonne Gebauer
Franz Schubert’s ” Swan Song” is a collection of songs written in 1828 – the year of the composer’s death. The starting point of our narrative is a military hospital where men stand between life and death, as if caught in a time loop. Jonas Kaufmann, one of the men, experiences an emotional journey through moments of happiness and disappointment during this stagnant time. At first, he finds comfort in memories of his lover and nature, but in the second half of the evening he sinks more and more into pain and loss, expressed in songs like the one about the “unhappy Atlas.” He encounters himself shortly before his death, in a final moment of shock and realization.
I contribute sound compositions based on Schubert’s music, which connect the songs and offer the possibility of scenic design. We have already conceived and launched the piece for a premiere in 2020. Now finally the evening is coming out and I am admittedly very excited!
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Jun 23
Inside Mphil: Spring
In 2019, Gunter Pretzel and I created a clever app that makes the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra sound virtually on a meadow behind the Munich Gasteig. As if the musicians were set up there, you walk between the musicians with your smartphone and headphones and step into the sound of the orchestra. You hear and experience the orchestra as the musicians themselves experience what’s happening, and you can choose who you want sitting next to you: the violins, the oboe, the timpani or whatever you want to hear.
4 years later, I have now built an update! You can now have the experience anywhere in the world, no matter where you are! All you need is an open-air meadow. Also, the app is now in English.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mphil.InsideMPhil01
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inside-mphil-spring/id1463187244
You can listen to a recording of the fourth movement of the Spring Symphony by Robert Schumann, recorded with the Munich Philharmonic in March 2019 under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado. See here with what enthusiasm he tried out the app: