Artistic Direction
menu2022
BIENNALE MUSICA 2022-OUT OF STAGE-Teatro Piccolo Arsenale-TIMOTHY CAPE/DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC THEATRE
BIENNALE COLLEGE MUSICA
COMPOSER
TIMOTHY CAPE (1991)
STILL DROWSY, 2022 (30’) ***
performative music theatre for voice,
percussion trio and sound diffusion
Text collated by Timothy Cape
Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, soprano
Ars Ludi
Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi,
Gianluca Ruggeri
DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV
RELICT, 2022 (35’) ***
linguistic mantram for voice,
percussion trio, video and electronics
Libretto by Egor Zaytsev
Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, soprano
Ars Ludi
Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi,
Gianluca Ruggeri
Daniil Posazhennikov, stage director
Egor Zaytsev, dramaturgy
Production La Biennale di Venezia – CIMM,
Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale
DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV - RELICT -
LINGUISTIC MANTRAM FOR VOICE
In RELICT words split into morphemes, morphemes – into phonemes, the human voice into sounds. The phonetic roots grow together in a linguistic mantram, the sound, the movement of the lips and tongue become a starting point of an urge towards the listening of archaic. RELICT opens in its processual movement, the artefacts turn into extension, into a line, which we follow – to the mystery, to the creation act, to the beginning, to the secret – while singing the essence of the language, singing the natural phenomena, manifesting the human voice. The signs of phenomena form a semiotic libretto of the action, which enables the spectators to look into the depths, the source of the relict world.
TIMOTHY CAPE - STILL DROWSY -
PERFORMATIVE MUSIC THEATRE FOR VOICE, PERCUSSION TRIO AND SOUND DIFFUSION
On the stage we meet an ambitious freelancer launching herself full-tilt towards her career goals, multitasking roles of entrepreneur of the self, self-administrator, self-motivator and PR manager... of herself. It’s not work, because she’s doing what she loves. She is her work. Espresso machines clatter, beans grind, throat gulps, emails whoosh, a head nods, a mouth networks and smiles, a brain struggles to find the right words, the right emotioal tone. Voices of self-help success gurus echo, “if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, we all have the same 24 hours in a day...” we spiral inwards, downwards, ever faster, fragmenting, becoming coffee, becoming machine.
BIENNALE COLLEGE MUSICA
COMPOSER
TIMOTHY CAPE (1991)
STILL DROWSY, 2022 (30’) ***
performative music theatre for voice,
percussion trio and sound diffusion
Text collated by Timothy Cape
Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, soprano
Ars Ludi
Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi,
Gianluca Ruggeri
DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV
RELICT, 2022 (35’) ***
linguistic mantram for voice,
percussion trio, video and electronics
Libretto by Egor Zaytsev
Esther-Elisabeth Rispens, soprano
Ars Ludi
Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi,
Gianluca Ruggeri
Daniil Posazhennikov, stage director
Egor Zaytsev, dramaturgy
Production La Biennale di Venezia – CIMM,
Centro di Informatica Musicale Multimediale
DANIIL POSAZHENNIKOV - RELICT -
LINGUISTIC MANTRAM FOR VOICE
In RELICT words split into morphemes, morphemes – into phonemes, the human voice into sounds. The phonetic roots grow together in a linguistic mantram, the sound, the movement of the lips and tongue become a starting point of an urge towards the listening of archaic. RELICT opens in its processual movement, the artefacts turn into extension, into a line, which we follow – to the mystery, to the creation act, to the beginning, to the secret – while singing the essence of the language, singing the natural phenomena, manifesting the human voice. The signs of phenomena form a semiotic libretto of the action, which enables the spectators to look into the depths, the source of the relict world.
TIMOTHY CAPE - STILL DROWSY -
PERFORMATIVE MUSIC THEATRE FOR VOICE, PERCUSSION TRIO AND SOUND DIFFUSION
On the stage we meet an ambitious freelancer launching herself full-tilt towards her career goals, multitasking roles of entrepreneur of the self, self-administrator, self-motivator and PR manager... of herself. It’s not work, because she’s doing what she loves. She is her work. Espresso machines clatter, beans grind, throat gulps, emails whoosh, a head nods, a mouth networks and smiles, a brain struggles to find the right words, the right emotioal tone. Voices of self-help success gurus echo, “if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, we all have the same 24 hours in a day...” we spiral inwards, downwards, ever faster, fragmenting, becoming coffee, becoming machine.
Last updated on