Our installation Ex.pose presented us with many challenges. We didn’t bury the head in the sand and stuck to our vision. We are happy to announce that expose will be on display at Schiffsbauergasse for another month starting Tuesday at dawn!
The show can be visited without tickets, registrations or access restrictions.
The last weeks of this year we enjoy working on our new dance and media installation EX.POSE. We were filming in the green box with the Dancer Raha Nejad, arranging, keying, animating, organizing, writing and composing Musik together with Marcel Siegel.
Choreographer Anja Kozik developed a dramaturgy that deals with the process of becoming aware of oneself as well as exploring and confronting inner boundaries. We are curious and looking forward how our 360 degree installation at Schiffbauergasse Waschhaus open air stage will look like in the big scale! It will run from the 12th of January until the 28th of February.
After being postponed again and again because of the pandemic, »Woanders« finally took place again at WUK Vienna in Oktober 2021. We were very happy to be part of the first Austrian show of »Woanders«. Based on the poetry of the author and filmmaker Thomas Brasch from the former GDR, the musician Masha Qrella and her ensemble have developed a theatrical concert around the topic of identity conflicts, named »Woanders« (German for »somewhere else«). Xenorama augmented the concert with contextual stage mapping and animations, surround sound design and an audio-visual multi-channel installation.
RELIEF | A topographical film and sound study | Open Air 18. & 19. September 2021 | Waschhaus Potsdam
«RELIEF» is inspired by the question of how a digital independent algorithm would musically interpret natural landscapes which have been increasingly affected by human presence.
Based on drone footage, the result is a landscape film illustrating varying topographies and applying an original soundtrack to them using only custom-programmed algorithms for sound design and composition.
This way, the textures—themselves as silent witnesses of rapidly progressing change, and as historical memory of topographical character and forms—are being given their very unique voice in line with contemporary understanding. The dramaturgy is unfolded by the aesthetic illustration and juxtaposition of natural and anthropogenic terrains from a bird’s eye view, which are used entirely for the generative synthesis of the soundtrack.
Furrows render sequences of frequencies, forestation unfolds shimmering granular sound spectra while liquid surfaces are transformed into multi-layered ambient textures.
RELIEF is a cooperation between Xenorama and Marc Eisenschink.
The project is funded by Fachbereich Kultur und Museum der Landeshauptstadt Potsdam and put into practice in cooperation with Waschhaus Potsdam GmbH.
18. – 19.09. 2021
Waschhaus Potsdam gGmbH
Schiffbauergasse 6
14467 Potsdam
Exciting things ahead! Corona turned our original plan of a concert into a 360° film: For REFLECT we are preparing an audiovisual experience in three scenes with Kammerakademie Potsdam and Waschhaus Potsdam.
What does the word »ISLAND« mean to you?
What feeling does it evoke?
9 Languages.
17 Takes on the matter.
A Brief impression of our immersive multi-channel audio book »A Secret Archipelago«, installed in Potsdam, on the Isle of Friendship. Thank you to Localize Potsdam for hosting, funding and supporting the piece, as well as ALL curious participants (of which there were many) !!
Info & full printed Text Book:
http://xenorama.com/portfolio/archipel
Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/xenorama/archipel
Full Stereo Mixdown and Original Voices (parallel German translations omitted for stereo compatibility):
https://soundcloud.com/the-solar-nex…/…/a-secret-archipelago
Upcoming saturday, 18th January 6pm in POTSDAM: »Unterwegs im Licht«
Xenorama and Stelzen-Art are performing »Imago Caeli« at the Alter Markt in Potsdam. Stilt dancers with inflatable costumes are being staged and augmented with mobile projections and music. Showtime 6pm — be there early, we’re very excited!
Event website: https://www.potsdam.de/event/unterwegs-im-licht-2020
Webinfos: http://xenorama.com/imago-ceali
Logistical Partner: Volkswagen Automobile Potsdam
A collaboration between Xenorama and the Berlin-based painter Helge Leiberg. An abstract journey through the history of Stendal, rendered as façade painting with an exclusive post progressive soundtrack on the Justizzentrum »Albrecht der Bär« at the #LichttageStendal.
Logistical Partner: Volkswagen Automobile Potsdam
Justizzentrum »Albrecht der Bär«
Scharnhorststraße 44,
39576 Stendal
October 17th – 19th, 7pm
In a short radio interview with the SWR2, our very own Richard Oeckel talks about the process of composing the music for large-scale projection mappings. He elaborates on the special team that he forms with Tim Heinze as well as the process of realising audiovisual ideas from scratch. In the special case of the show WALLS OF PERCEPTION, the topic of working with a mix of real and software-based instruments is also a crucial aspect. Enjoy listening to the interview!
