MEDIATHEK

The stage is completly dark. Slowly a buzzing or humming sound appears. A single spot light slowly fades up – sound and light seem to interact – or not? A second spot light appears, others follow. The frequencies of the sound slowly change. The buzzing sounds now associate insects, it could be a place in nature. Suddenly all spot lights seem to move, a light sculpture starts to move towards the audience. Minutes seem to pass with only minimal changes in the landscape of sound and light. They both seem to become more rhythmical, the buzzing sounds anticipate a loose melody. The sculpture slowly moves on, until it reaches the audience. The light becomes unbearable bright, deep frequencies emerge. How to response to such a sensual confrontation?

// FLIMMERSKOTOM uses the technical apparatus of the theatre stage: the lights, diaprojectors and a scaffold. Sound and music throughout the performance have their origin in the light. We recorded the sounds of the theatre lamps (that are normally seen as interference), filtered and composed a soundscape for the whole performance. Certain lights are also live-ampflified via copper pick-up-coils, that react to the electromagnetic fields of the lamps. Our main performer on stage is a scaffold equipped with theatre lamps. It is moved by a performer-body, who constantly appears and disappears. The lights throughout the performance are choreographed via the light desk and continually change their appearance: they form clusters, rhythmic entities and melodic progressions – light is confronted with musical structures. Sound interacts with light during the performance in very different ways, so that the viewer himself has to make connections between the layers. Sometimes the sound seems directly synchronous to the light, then they fall apart, the music is contrapuntal, then again the lights seem to directly produce the music. FlIMMERSKOTOM plays with the source and fictionalisation of sound and light and with their synchronicity.

// FLIMMERSKOTOM is an experimental Music-Theatre Performance. The theatre space itself becomes a light and sound installation, but also a choreography in time. The elements and materials that normally produce visibility on stage, become hearable performers. FLIMMERSKOTOM poses the question: How would vision and sight sound like, if we could make them hearable?

// The Project was invited to the KÖRBER-STUDIO 2015 in Hamburg.