Opera Lab Berlin takes inspiration from pioneers of electronic music such as Wendy Carlos, SOPHIE, Pauline Oliveros and Éliane Radigue in their new performance. They celebrate overcoming mechanical-acoustic sound production and going beyond heteronormative boundaries.
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KEY VISUAL A Guide to Self-Synthesis
Together with trans singer-songwriter Marlene Bellissimo, known from The Voice of Germany, Opera Lab Berlin explores the sonic potential of electronics for defining your own parameters in A Guide to Self Synthesis. Its transformative, transgressive power and frequencies of (self-)expression become the focus of the performance, for which composer Evan Gardner creates a pluralistic combination of notated but non-restrictive sound fields.
What possibilities does synthetic sound production offer? How do queer harmonies and trans oscillators sound? Following the principle of Mauricio Kagel's instrumental theater, singing and dancing, music from synthesizers, motion-tracking technology, composition and choreography come together in A Guide to Self-Synthesis, a new utopian and emancipatory celebration of electronic music.
"One of the most experimental and refreshing musical theater groups in the Berlin’s independent performing arts community" (Siegessäule)
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Funded by initiative neue musik berlin e.V. and Impuls neue Musik e.V.
Participating artists
Marlene Bellissimo (Entwicklung, Performance & Musik)
Samuel Chalela Puccini (Film & Video)
Aléinor Dauchez (Harpsichord Skulptur)
Evan Gardner (Künstlerische Leitung, Entwicklung, Performance & Musik)
Paula Häfele (Produktions Management)
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (Text)
Peach Kander (Text)
Jayson Keery (Text)
Pauline Oliveros (Musik)
Rapheal Papo (Musikalische Leitung, Entwicklung & Performance)
Eliane Radigue (Musik)
Boris Schenk (Licht Design)
Sadie Shea (Entwicklung, Performance & Koreographie)
Susan Stryke (Text)
Susan Stryker (Special Guest)
Charles Theonia (Text)
Oscar Vaurs (Sound Design)
Franseca Verga (Entwicklung & Performance)
Daniel Zea (Sound Design, Entwicklung, Performance & Musik)
Felix von Dohlen (Live Sound)
