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il vento/schwärmen (= „the wind/ to swarm“) is a music theatre of the Berlin composer and singer Margarete Huber. A poetic and theatrical space music, ranging from the most delicate and tender moments to storms . Natural and urban sounds of 4 - channel composition are combined with live singing and the sounds of the audience, which is actively involved in the performance. "Il vento" makes audible, how a single individual human beeing can change a (sound) envirement fundamentally. And also themasize the fascination and extasy of producing sounds and actions together in swarms of people . "Il vento" also is a very personal tribute to the time, that the composer spended in that city, and a tribute to the swarm of people with whom she was living at the time , and the raving about this time. Practical Realisation: The singer starts the performance with explaining the variations of the voice-actions of the partizipating audience (mainly breathing in different ways), that are conducted by 3 light-circles, that comes over the groups of public. The singer stands behind a light-mixer, and conducts the audience with turning of or on the light even in a very delicate dynamic way: less light means more quiet voice sounds. A few speaker of the audience should train a few words or sentences of the libretto, a few very intimate hearttouching statements. Than the light goes out and the room is completely dark.The singer starts with live-singing (“Pensieri”= Thinkings) and the pre-recorded music comes like an echo out of a 4- channel-loudspeakers. In the middle of the completely dark room sits the audience, and the singer now conducts the audience with the light circles that comes over public and touches them in a very directly sensual way, so that they can really feel and act almost dreamlike.Their breathing sounds are completing the music with impressive breathing waves, like mysterious winds, storms, breezes, tempests.Natural Multichannel- effekt! And sometimes in the darkness a single speaking voice is hearable, with a few words. The pre-recorde music is mainly very full and rich of very different musical parameters like soundscape from the forest, city, speaking and singing voices, baroque church organ and e-piano-with circuit-bending sounds, string instruments, birds and so one. Dreamlike or like remembering and swarming about something. The music ends with the words “ volo” (= i am flying) and after that only the last wave of the live-breathing public remains...