klangzeitort: Musiktheaterwerkstatt

Sinopsis

Pagan Celebration is a multimedia opera in 5 movements, which through the use of acoustic extremes and poetic images, takes agency over the miseries that built symbolic and cultural capital in societies like Argentina. The precarious, austerity as a result of emptying, the sense of belonging in distress. To present resistance in the face of invasion constitutes the skeleton of Latin identities and mobilizes it. Celebrating as an act of resistance proposes an antithesis of the docile and malleable body, vindicates the spirit and brings togetherness. In the face of growing dehumanization policies, returning to the collective body implies a valorization of the entity of the other. This other constructs me and I construct them. In this construction we create values of listening, of appreciation and we offer resistance to the plundering of our human and cultural capital. 

1. Ouverture. FIxed electronic and video
2. my voice breaks when i cry. Voices, guitar, cymbal and double bass.
3. SPIT . Cello, double bass and touch designer.
4. death tastes like future Drums, guitar, voices and double bass.
5. pagan celebration Fixed electronic. 

This Opera contains extreme sounds and strobo lights. You are invited to wear earplugs and sunglasses if it can make your experience more comfortable. 

Audience is encouraged to move freely through the room during the piece. However if someone has the need, there are chairs available. 

Performers

Johanna Schmalöer cello and voice

Sid Werner double bass

Arne Braun drums

Cyrill Ferrari guitar and sound assistance

German García touchdesigner and visual assistance. 

Lara Alarcón composition, voice, light and sound design

with contributions from 

Juana Sallies commissioned video for movement I  and ‘’dos troncos que se sostienen’’ field recording in movement I by 1200km/h platform from Macarena Aguilar Tau.

Set of speakers from the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchestra. 

All field recordings recorded by Alarcón in Argentina except the one mentioned above.

All images in Ouverture filmed by Juana Sallies in Ushuaia, Argentina. 

Poster program by Pierina Lategola.