Kubus In Concert

Audio piece for 24-voice choir, two narrators, a spoken word artist, grand piano & playback tape, 55'

As a mixture of radio play and modern choral piece, »The Moon Tapes« follows the word sound of a textual basis: two koala bears orbit the world in a spaceship. With their antenna ears erect, they listen to the songs of the Laconic, the Semantic and the Antipodean, who – supported by their choirs – sing the high song of the arrival of a space capsule down on earth. For a long time, the koala bears have been researching the song of the stars in their spaceship, recording the »The Moon Tapes« and sending them in a capsule towards Earth. When the capsule lands, there is a moment of absolute silence. In a grand finale, the Laconic, the Semantic, and the Antipodean celebrate the arrival of the poem....

Production: SWR 2014
With: SWR Vokalensemble, David Bennent, Bernhard Schütz and Ken Yamamoto

For a portable self-built electronic instrument, ca. 20 - 25' (premiere).

»Liminal Lines« is a live electronic music performance by Viola Yip with her self-built portable instrument. She uses her body movements as a tool to develop a choreography between sound and movement that challenges traditional notions of techniques and execution.

This wearable instrument, built in the shape of a dress, consists of various audio cables that carry sound signals. Yip's body movements allow for a wide range of distances, pressures, and speeds with the dress, creating a hybrid human-machine performance instrument. This allows her to create complex lengths that she modulates over time.

For voice, electronics, trumpet & snares, ca. 20 – 25' (UA).

In their performance at ZKM, Lea Bertucci and Ben Vida present a multi-channel adaptation of their new work »My Words Came Out Slow and Odd«, a text-based composition for voices and electronics, trumpet and reeds. This work pushes the boundaries of language and intelligibility, expanding the human voice through creative electronic processing while exploring the threshold between sense and nonsense. What new forms of communication emerge when language is in a constant state of morphology? How quickly can we recalibrate to allow the projection of complex meanings onto abstractions? »My Words Came Out Slow and Odd« is a clattering, psychedelic swirl of heteroglossic smudges and stutters.