OPERA of ENTROPY | MTTW 2016
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Thomas J. Jelinek
OPERA of ENTROPY
Postdramatic music theatre by Jorge Sánchez-Chiong and Thomas J. Jelinek
Premiere
A co-production of NOMAD.theatre and MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN, in cooperation with mediaOpera, Tanzquartier Wien and ZENTRALWERK Dresden.
A post-dramatic music theatre of negotiating our present against the world crisis scenario of disintegration, along the narrative lines of authentic characters.
We make history every day, each of us creates reality. Every minute.
Entropy increases every second. Disorder, discontinuity, disinformation, dissolution and disintegration create concrete entropic phenomena. Destabilisation of Europe, the social fabric, corruption, climate change, suicide bombers, war create depression, ADHD in young people, disorientation, burnout, weakness in decision-making. People are becoming increasingly involved, but just as many are taking refuge in repression and the fun society.
In an interactive installation that creates a communicative and musical resonance space through the active presence of the audience, a fractal of our present is created. A contemporary opera.
More about the play at: www.nomade-theatre.eu
Artistic direction, installation and system architecture: Thomas J. Jelinek Composition and sound architecture: Jorge Sánchez-Chiong Technical concept, video: Peter Koger Sound technologyFlorian Bogner Dramaturgy and productionGeorg Steker Text, discourse dramaturgy, actors: Marian Kaiser Cello and voice: Marie Spaemann aka MELA Sound art and programming: Pit Noack Photographic body installation: Christina Hartl-Prager Performers, mathematics: Max Hoffmann Conceptual installation, economy: Gerald Nestler Cryptography, Feminist Discourse: Lucie Strecker Co-composition, guitar: Florian Kmet Technical installation and game programming: Thomas Wagensommerer Video, actress: Louise Linsenbolz Multi-percussion, soundscape development: David Christopher Panzl Guest experts: Hanada Al Refai (mathematician, political activist, from Syria, as a refugee in Vienna) Margarete Jahrmann (media artist, professor at the University of Art Zurich) Stefan Glasauer (Neuroscientist, Professor at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich) Armin Medosch (artist, media expert, journalist, professor at the University of Media and Arts Belgrade)
