MEDIATHEK

Chamber Opera in 10 Scenes by Michael Maierhof (Composition) and Steffen Pohl (Text) for Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Actor, and Ensemble with oscillating systems, motors and tape.

The centre of the chamber opera EXIT G is the broken sound of the human voice – the acting and singing individual who’s tones get splitted by simple analogue objects to enable an emotional and tonal experience of the contemporary distortion of the subject.

With the help of specifically developed mechanical vocoders (some activated by motors) to encroach the singing of the opera characters. By using certain preperations and applications also the sound of the instruments is strongly modified. To make this a special experience the musicians are placed around the audience which is seated in an amphitheatre setting.

This scenic and musical setting is opposed to the narration of an actor telling of the everyday life of the young bike messenger Valentin living and working in Hamburg, Germany.
For this modern hero his dangerous job is beloved, more than just routine, and without alternative. And this though this formerly cool profession is threatened and losing many of their clients to the possibilities of digital transmission modes or nowadays the 3D printers.
Daily he’s speeding through Hamburg to make his living, defies the conventions and perfidy of traffic, communicates with friends and fellow bikers – but he’s at a loss with the looming end of his relationship with his girl friend Karolina, and the expensive housing situation in Hamburg does not make it easier to plan a shared future.

Listening to the music and singing of EXIT G, the viewed scenery, the heard and partly performed plot, the musicians among the audience, all these items will not provide an objective story, but in every single experience of members in the audience these levels are connected to a possible unit – the opera.