MEDIATHEK

In the piece "Teleprompter Paradise", a team of four musicians and performers are looking for possible new connections between electronic music production and its performance in our digital age. Nowadays, we can make music only by moving the fingertips over the touchpad of our computers. But what does it mean to present this kind of music to an audience? What could be the potential of staging this music, of placing performing bodies to a fixed track played by the computer?
 "Teleprompter Paradise" raises up these questions of fixed music in a melodrama scenario. Two twins unfold a playground between home studio and concert stage. In an atmosphere somewhere between digital euphoria and post internet melancholia the two perform their music for each other and for the audience. Between song fragments and audio drama parts, the twins themselves become multi-functional instruments: They play bittersweet electronica with their eyelashes and synth symphonies via mind control. With their voices, wireless DIY-gear, multicolored wands, real and fake gestural sensors, they probe future forms of instrumentality and performance practice. Quoting genres such as opera or contemporary EDM the twins guide the audience through a set of short scenes until everything becomes indistinguishable  - like themselves.