| DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV - RELICT (35'): | Libretto by Egor Zaytsev, World premiere |
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| Soprano: | Esther-Elisabeth Rispens |
| Video artist: | Dimitry Martynov |
| Stage direction: | Daniil Posazhennikov |
| Dramaturgy: | Egor Zaytsev |
| Production: | La Biennale di Venezia – CIMM, Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale |
| TIMOTHY CAPE - STILL DROWSY (30'): | Text collated by Timothy Cape, World premiere |
| Soprano solo: | Esther-Elisabeth Rispens |
| Performance by: | ARS LUDI - Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi, Gianluca Ruggeri |
| Production: | La Biennale di Venezia – CIMM, Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale |
Music
BIENNALE COLLEGE MUSICA - DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV / TIMOTHY CAPE
Daniil Posazhennikov - Relict -
LINGUISTIC MANTRAM FOR VOICE
In RELICT words split into morphemes, morphemes – into phonemes, the human voice into sounds. The phonetic roots grow together in a linguistic mantram, the sound, the movement of the lips and tongue become a starting point of an urge towards the listening of archaic. RELICT opens in its processual movement, the artefacts turn into extension, into a line, which we follow – to the mystery, to the creation act, to the beginning, to the secret – while singing the essence of the language, singing the natural phenomena, manifesting the human voice. The signs of phenomena form a semiotic libretto of the action, which enables the spectators to look into the depths, the source of the relict world.
Timothy Cape - Still Drowsy -
PERFORMATIVE MUSIC THEATRE FOR VOICE, PERCUSSION TRIO AND SOUND DIFFUSION
On the stage we meet an ambitious freelancer launching herself full-tilt towards her career goals, multitasking roles of entrepreneur of the self, self-administrator, self-motivator and PR manager... of herself. It’s not work, because she’s doing what she loves. She is her work. Espresso machines clatter, beans grind, throat gulps, emails whoosh, a head nods, a mouth networks and smiles, a brain struggles to find the right words, the right emotioal tone. Voices of self-help success gurus echo, “if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, we all have the same 24 hours in a day...” we spiral inwards, downwards, ever faster, fragmenting, becoming coffee, becoming machine.