20 & 21 August, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
Production: SIMATOROS
Genre: Music
Time: 21:15
Duration: 70′
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A concert that, through the creative use of multimedia, John’s Revelation and digitally altered Fayum mummy portraits, touches upon the mental trauma of the age-old, constantly lurking destruction that is nowadays called climate crisis. The production includes multiple projections and a surround sound system, audiovisual digits created in real time, an actress performing with live music, debates between scientific discourse and sacred texts, multilingual accounts of liturgical rituals from across the world, as well as heretical speech delivery by the actress, along with an unexpected use of soundscapes by the musician and Studio 19st. The performance is grounded on the standpoint that man is not the centre of this universe but just a guest in it, and that the climate crisis is a huge chance to establish a culture of a Sacred Indestructible for our common home in the present day.
Creative team
Concept, design, script, selection of excerpts from Revelation and other texts, original music score and live music performance, selection of works/borrowings and live performance of them, classical and midi guitar, co-creation of soundscapes and visionscapes, live sound material interaction system operator, sound/visual design: Yorgos Mouloudakis
Delivery of excerpts from Revelation and other texts, performance in filmed excerpts and live performance, visual references (masks) to dead persons’ portraits and religious places, the sound imprint of a mourning person and of a fate talking in the language of the texts, the symbolic imprint of a creature on the planet that in times of crisis becomes both the punisher and the punished: Sofia Hill
Visual script, videos, photography, filming, sound/visual design, prepared and live visual script, projections: Vassilis Kountouris
Sound design, audio recording and mix of texts with prerecorded music, tetraphony in the studio and on stage, sound set, prerecorded and live sound script, sound operator: Kostas Bokos
Sound editing, video editing, surround sound system, video installation: Studio 19st