In collaboration with Ensemble Modern, we conceived a spatial sound composition inspired by the correspondence novel of Hölderin. Music and Sound-Recordings and Playbacks merged into a constant musical dialogue between past, present and future.
OUR ROLE Sound Artist // CONCEPT Kiriakos Hadjiioannou // CHOREGRAPHY, DIRECTION Kiriakos Hadjiioannou and Fabrice Mazliah // PERFORMANCE Tamara Bacci, Nancy Stamatopoulou, Fabrice Mazliah, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou // Music Ensemble Modern. Eva Böcker, Megumi Kasakawa, Giorgios Panagiotidis, Sava Stoianov, Dietmar Wiesner // Sound Director Alexander Kolb // Costumes Orsalia Parthenis // Light Design, Technical Director Jost von Harleßem // Stage Design Urs August Steiner // Dramaturgy Margarita Tsomou, Bernhard Siebert // Oeil Intérieur, Production Assistant Katerina Drakopoulou // Production Management Antibodies. Mamaza (Johanna Milz), Ensemble Modern (Edda von Gerlach) // Production Antibodies, Mamaza and Ensemble Modern // Co-production Kaserne Basel and cresc... Biennale für Moderne Musik Frankfurt Rhein Main // Support Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater der Kantone Basel Stadt und Basel Land, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung // Photos Jörg Baumann // Year 2017
Longing for a perfect world, Hölderlin’s early romantic figure of Hyperion oscillates between manic-depressive and hallucinatory, euphoric states. His attempts to unite art, nature, love and revolution in harmony fail. Exhausted, Hyperion withdraws to a Greek island, where he devotes himself to writing letters.
Addressing the elliptic form and the time-offset between writing and receiving the letters, which the Hölderlin’s Novel consists of, musical phrases were recorded live and played back in a circulating and ever fading „memory sphere.
