A performative ecology for soprano, spoken voice, double bass, bass recorder, electronics (4 channel distribution), two drums, Shibari performance and dance, duration 1 hour.
Performed 5 June 2024, 20:00 @SOHO STUDIOS Vienna as part of the festival MUSIC AFTER NATURE and in cooperation with the ISCM International Society of Contemporary Music Austria.
Performers
Juliet Fraser, vocalist / Elie Halonen, Shibari artist / Satu Hakamäki, dance / Pia Palme, bass recorder+text performance / Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass+performance
Credits
The piece including the music, scores, texts and storyboard was developed and put together in a longer collective process by Satu Hakamäki, Elie Halonen, Juliet Fraser and Pia Palme. Music was composed/developed/improvised by Pia Palme, Juliet Fraser and Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka. Texts (written and improvised) by Pia Palme.
Lisa Horvath accompanied the staging process and light design, acting as external eye for the performers during rehearsals.
Costume idea+realisation by Elie Halonen. Christina Bauer, sound design, Osvaldo Alvarez, lighting.
Produced in cooperation with the ISCM International Society of Contemporary Music Austria. The artists further appreciate the financial support of the BMKÖS Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien) for the performance and the compositional process, the District of Ottakring, Vienna, and of the SKE Fund of the austro mechana for their creative and compositional process, and the EU Mobility Fund for supporting the travels necessary during their creative and compositional process.
Fotos by Elisabeth Flunger and Pia Palme
