Laure M. Hiendl

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   Songs for Captured Voices (2021)
   music theater (album version)

   Please also download the libretto and the photo booklet.

   
   

2. A memento of the unspoken: The new piece of music theatre "Songs for Captured Voices," by Philipp Bergmann, Sandra E. Blatterer, Laure M. Hiendl, Göksu Kunak, Elaine Mitchener, Nico Navarro Rueda, Thea Reifler, Djibril Sall and the ensemble KNM Berlin centres around human voices that have been instrumentalised time and again throughout history and become the object of asymmetrical power negotiations. Audio recordings from German prisoner-of-war camps from the First and Second World Wars serve as the background of this project, as do acoustic recordings taken from the setting of current asylum procedures. The recordings themselves are not played or reproduced onstage; rather, the capture of these human voices acts as a starting point for attentive listening: the original music composed for this project allows what remains unspoken and hidden, what exists in the in-between sounds and blurriness, to resound.

   Due to circumstances, the music theatre "Songs for Captured Voices" will be released as an album version online. This version includes a sound recording of the music as well as a booklet with the libretto and photographs of the stage work.

   Composition Laure M. Hiendl
   Libretto Göksu Kunak a.k.a. Gucci Chunk
   Voice Elaine Mitchener
   Performance and Choreography Djibril Sall
   Music Ensemble KNM Berlin
   Direction Philipp Bergmann und Thea Reifler
   Light Sandra E. Blatterer
   Costume Nicholas Navarro Rueda
   Photography Rita Couto
   Production ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
   Graphic Jamila Wolfgruber

   Credits
   A production by Bergamann/Reifler/Hiendl GbR in cooperation with radialsystem. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The preliminary research was supported by the Initialförderung Fonds Darstellende Künste. A composition commission by the radialsystem, funded by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. Media partners: Ask Helmut, ExBerliner and tip Berlin.

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   Berlin, Germany
   February 18, 2021 | radialsystem

   
   
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