Overview of pre-event participatory installation
35 minutes of excerpts
All photos by Malte Bülow Photography
Calls to this number
are being diverted
(staged music-theatre for 2 soloists and an ensemble of 3 )
[2024]
DURATION:
ca. 90'
INSTRUMENTATION:
Accordion doubling voice
Violin doubling voice
Clarinet in Bb doubling tin whistle in C, melodica and voice
Cello doubling classical guitar and voice
Percussion doubling keyboards and voice
Audience participation
Pre-event participatory installation (in a foyer space or similar)
Live electronics, visuals and light run in Logic Pro X, Max 8 and QLab
First performed during a 3-show run at Teater Refleksion 02.02.2024-04.02.2024
Team:
Composition/concept: Matthew Grouse
Produced by: Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
Soloists: Andreas Borregaard (accordion and voice) and Anna Jalving (violin and voice)
Ensemble musicians: Hsiao Tung Yuan (percussion, keyboards, voice), Kirstine Elise Pedersen (cello, guitar, voice), Joss Smith (clarinet, whistles, melodica, voice)
Staging/directing consultant: Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Sound technician: Morten Elkjær
Production assistance: Jacob Ridderberg and Frederik Sakham Contributions to installation and visuals: Jan Giedroyc
Voice acting: Jan Giedroyc, Lily Grouse, Sam Wilson, Harry Gorski-Brown, Mathilde Schelin, Matthew Grouse
In partnership with: Current Resonance, Teater Refleksion, K!ART, Don't Look Back records
Documentation: Camera/Videography: Spektrals
Post-production audio: Matthew Grouse
Photography: Malte Bülow Photography
AUT is grateful to the following foundations for financially supporting the project: Statens Kunstfond, William Demant Fonden, Det Obelske Familiefond, Augustinus Fonden, Dansk Komponistforening , KODA Kultur, CAC Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fonden, Statens Kunstfond, Aarhus Kommunes Musikpulje
About the work:
Evening length music-theatre set in an absurd call centre. At the data collection agency ‘Re-sounding Success’, call centre workers equipped with instruments sit behind their computer screens, waiting (played by Andreas Borregaard and Anna Sakham Jalving). While they wait to be transferred, the hold-music of each company on their call-list is played by a live house band that can only be glimpsed as silhouettes behind an illuminated screen. (hold-music trio: Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao Tung Yuan and Joss Smith). Operating at the boundaries of new music, experimental theatre involving audience participation, and interactive installation art, the project’s central themes land on the unsettling musicality buried in repetitive labour, cold-calling and workplace technology; the psychological effects of hold-music; and existential questions surrounding time, purpose and agency.
PERFORMANCES:
Produced by Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere - Teater Refleksion, Aarhus - 04.02.2024 - 15.00
Produced by Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere - Teater Refleksion, Aarhus - 03.02.2024 - 19.00
Produced by Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere - Teater Refleksion, Aarhus - 02.02.2024 - 19.00