Hyperion is a spatial sound composition with Ensemble Modern. Live musical phrases are recorded and played back through loudspeakers around performers and audience.
OUR ROLE Sound Artist // CONCEPT Kiriakos Hadjiioannou // CHOREGRAPHY, DIRECTION Kiriakos Hadjiioannou and Fabrice Mazliah // PERFORMANCE Tamara Bacci, Nancy Stamatopoulou, Fabrice Mazliah, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou // Music Ensemble Modern. Eva Böcker, Megumi Kasakawa, Giorgios Panagiotidis, Sava Stoianov, Dietmar Wiesner // Sound Director Alexander Kolb // Costumes Orsalia Parthenis // Light Design, Technical Director Jost von Harleßem // Stage Design Urs August Steiner // Dramaturgy Margarita Tsomou, Bernhard Siebert // Oeil Intérieur, Production Assistant Katerina Drakopoulou // Production Management Antibodies. Mamaza (Johanna Milz), Ensemble Modern (Edda von Gerlach) // Production Antibodies, Mamaza and Ensemble Modern // Co-production Kaserne Basel and cresc... Biennale für Moderne Musik Frankfurt Rhein Main // Support Fachausschuss Tanz und Theater der Kantone Basel Stadt und Basel Land, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung // Photos Jörg Baumann // Year 2017
The work is developed around Holderlin's figure of Hyperion and the novel's structure of memory, longing, and delayed communication. Musical phrases are recorded live during the performance.
These phrases return through loudspeakers as circulating and fading memories, surrounding the performers and audience.
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