X - suite filante (2006/07)

Opéra-Vidéo by Katharina Rosenberger / Ivan Talijancic (WaxFactory)
Inspired by the work of French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, the two artists set diverse performance languages on a collision course: combining cinematographic images with theatrical action, and live performance with electronic and acoustic music, sound gets visible and space audible. The three vocal artists: Sylvia Nopper, Leslie Leon and Leila Pfister together with the ensemble für neue musik zürich, function on stage as a modern chorus in dialogue with the dual-layer video projection.
With: Sylvia Nopper(Soprano), Leslie Leon (Mezzosoprano), Leila Pfister (Mezzosoprano), Erika Latta (Acting), ensemble für neue musik zürich // Composition: Katharina Rosenberger //Direction: Ivan Talijancic // Video: Antonio Giacomin // Dramaturgy: Iva Sanjek // Stagedesign: Spela Ursic, Nejc Batistic // Costumes : Giomar Giraldo // Light: Daniel Müller, Blaise Dutoit // Production: Thomas Keller (Verein Freqwerk), Production Videoshoot: Georg Bringolf

Performances: August 18 (premier) to 21, 2007, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Rote Fabrik, Aktionshalle, Zürich, September 1 to 4, 2007, Festival La Bâtie, Théâtre du Grütli, Blackbox, Geneva, Switzerland >more

Interactive Sound Installation
The audience is invited to control with their body movement the unfolding of a musical composition. An Max/MSP driven interface allows via motion capture to perform realtime sound synthesis and re-spatialisation of previously recorded acoustic music.
Technical development in collaboration with GMEM (Centre National de Création Musicale) in Marseille, France >more

composition for orchestra
inspired by the ancient Japanese metalworking technique, the sounds of various metal objects have been recorded, analyzed and orchestrated into the ensemble, divided into 28 solo voices.
premiered by Orchestre de Nîmes, Jean Deroyer, Nov. 19, 2005, Théâtre de Nîmes, France

sound design for the play by Matthias Lehmann
through wireless headphones the audience is lured into the minds of four young passengers on a nightly train ride. The spoken text runs on four different channels, which leaves the audience with four versions of the play.
premiered on September 17, 2005, Theater Tuchlaube, Aarau, Switzerland

Interactive Sound Installation, based on myths and historical accounts of the mountainous region "Valais" in the south of Switzerland.
equipped with wireless headphones, the audience follows a spiral shaped path and depending on their decision to sit down a chair or not, the visitors encounter and listen to the stories of lost souls of the underworld

video sound installation, with Maria Mayer and Matthias Lehmann
20 minute looping projection of a side road in lower Manhattan. The surround sound suggests events and encounters that have happened in the past in that street, two phone booths invite to listen to the memories of various people that have lived in Manhattan. An immersive environment that stimulates and triggers own memories and associations. A mingling place of everyone's memories, stories and actual events that have happened at some point, somewhere...