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Deus In Machina – A Ritual

composition, State Theatre Nuremberg 2024, Webseite

In this ritual, you connect to an artificial neural network: the AI provides texts, the audience listens to them on headphones and speaks them out loud. I developed polyphonic humming choruses for this mechanism, which the audience is given on different channels via the headphones. However, the common humming was also played back to the headphones using a room microphone so that the acoustic isolation of the headphones could be overcome for a moment. In addition, different atmospheres were created, always consisting of one level for the PA and one level for the headphones. In addition to various AI-generated materials, the central element was above all the synthesis of ocean sounds as a strong motif of the ritual for the desired community.

directing
stage & costume design
  • Sangyeon Lee
dramaturgy
  • Fabian Schmidtlein
starring
  • Pola Jane O' Mara
  • Joshua Kliefert