Artist

Admin

Stage director

Kay Link

Conductor

Franz Danksagmüller

Set designer

Virgil Widrich

Costume designer

Gesa Gröning

Lighting designer

Oleg Prodeus

Video designer

Singer

Anna Herbst

Nova

Valdemar Villadsen

Seth

Gerard Quinn

"the wholeness" / the system

Olof von Gagern

Viola

Orchesterzentrum NRW Dortmund / Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentags

Nova - Imperfecting Perfection

Producer

Dortmund

Germany

Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentags

Orchesterzentrum/NRW

Nova - imperfecting perfection

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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

Nova - Imperfecting Perfection by Danksagmüller, From (2019/2019), Directed by Kay Link,, Conductor Franz Danksagmüller, Orchesterzentrum/NRW, Dortmund, Germany

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