Gyre & Gimble (2015-2016)Chamber opera:-Voices: silent soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, choir (soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone). Instruments: 4 percussionists (3 steel sheets, timpani), strings (vl, vla, vcl, double bass - mainly played with transducers), midi controller keyboard (1 player). Unplayed instruments: 2 pianos, tam-tam, metal sheets, bass drum, snare drum (all of them utilized as sound boxes for transducer loudspeakers), prepared air fans, transducer loudspeakers.-Premiered at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (July 2016)-Jana Baumeister (soprano), Amira Elmafda (mezzo soprano), Minseok Kim (tenor), David Pilchmeier (baritone)-Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatsorchester Darmstadt,-Johannes Harneit (conductor)Based on fragments from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” videohome
Gyre & Gimble (2015-2016)
Chamber opera:
-Voices: silent soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, choir (soprano,
mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone).
Instruments: 4 percussionists (3 steel sheets, timpani), strings (vl, vla,
vcl, double bass - mainly played with transducers), midi controller keyboard
(1 player). Unplayed instruments: 2 pianos, tam-tam, metal sheets, bass drum,
snare drum (all of them utilized as sound boxes for transducer loudspeakers),
prepared air fans, transducer loudspeakers.
-Premiered at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt
(July 2016)
-Jana Baumeister (soprano), Amira Elmafda (mezzo soprano),
Minseok Kim (tenor), David Pilchmeier (baritone)
-Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatsorchester Darmstadt,
-Johannes Harneit (conductor)
Based on fragments from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”
video
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