MEDIATHEK

[kʌu̯ ɪn junifɔɹm] is a multidisciplinary opera-project.

Music, theatre, fashion design, fine arts and graphic design work together in order to create a new world in which they coexist emancipated and work intertwining. In the beginning electronic sounds illustrate the entrance into this world, where three characters live together in a burning house. Fire is a central element of the whole piece; the development of the music throughout the whole opera is based on the development of a fire, by beginning with loose little motifs that grow together slowly, blazing up towards the end, finally dying down quietly.

Each one of the three characters has his own musical process combined with an own instrumentation, which, on the one hand, symbolizes his nature and, on the other hand, the fate that threatens him and from which each one tries to escape, without success. So their determination takes its course, accompanied, transmitted and probably caused by two other, non-human, creatures. In their last moments the three characters, each, undergo a development from singing to sprechgesang to speaking which symbolizes their fading vitality.

It is not clear what fate threatens each one of them or why the house is burning. And overall much stays intelligible, because everybody (except one of the creatures) talks in a fantasy language. One has to get oneself onto another level of comprehension. Thereby one is able to experience the situations of the characters without the distance of rationality – by the rich acoustic and visual expressions of the different disciplines involved – and one is by this experience – paradoxically – able to understand them better.