Name: Nova - Imperfecting Perfection
Start: 2019-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-06-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Orchesterzentrum/NRW

Artist

Admin

Regia

Kay Link

Direzione d'orchestra

Composizione

Franz Danksagmüller

Scenografia

Video

Virgil Widrich

Costumi

Gesa Gröning

Luci

Oleg Prodeus

Cantante

Soprano

Anna Herbst

Nova

Tenore (+1)

Valdemar Villadsen

Seth

Baritono

Gerard Quinn

"the wholeness" / the system

Violista

Olof von Gagern

Viola

Orchesterzentrum/NRW

Orchesterzentrum NRW Dortmund / Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentags

Nova - Imperfecting Perfection

Producer

Dortmund

Germania

Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentags

Nova - imperfecting perfection

Staged

Opera

Approvato

World premiere of Franz Danksagmüller's opera NOVA - IMPERFECTING PERFECTION in Dortmund. Directed by Kay Link and Oscar-nominated movie director Virgil Widrich.

The score is largely based on the never-ending, transcendental and irrational number π, from which various melodies, rhythms and tuning systems are derived. Live electronics modulate the voices of the singers and the sound of the viola with the number π and various algorithms, acoustically expanding and connecting them with virtual sound generators. At the same time, Franz Danksagmüller works with various sonifications – tonal translations of data derived from human existence: economic cycles, climate cycles, data relating to human interactions, etc. A sonification enables Nova and the listening audience to apprehend and experience the cycles in a sensory way. Finally, artificial intelligence creates music: based on Hidden Markov Chains, algorithms themselves perform live composition based on sets of predetermined rules.

English

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