Performance: On Stage
New music theater by Pablo Garretón for ensemble, live electronics, 4-channel audio and multi-screen installation
ABOUT
Transparence is a piece about transparency in our digital society. A society in which – with regard to easily available information – trust as a social practice becomes obsolete and gives way to control. Thus, the transparency society has a structural proximity to the surveillance society.
Understanding human needs becomes relative for those who have power over data. Those who understand Big Data understand behavioral patterns and social phenomena before the individual can even guess at them. Correlation replaces causality and the question of why “becomes superfluous in the face of it-is-so.”
Transparence is a music theater for ensemble and video installation commissioned by Pablo Garretón in 2022.
WITH
Sarah Heemann – flutes
Raik Weidemann – saxophone
Matthias Schuller – trombone
Felix Knoblauch – piano / synthesizer
Anna Neubert – violin
Pauline Buss – viola
Rebekka Stephan – violoncello
Pablo Garretón – sound direction
Pablo Garretón – composition, sound direction and electronics
Hendrik Manook – sound engineering
Paul Pappe – stage design
Nicolas Tolchinsky – Architectural advice
Felix Knoblauch – artistic direction