Art&Science Event: "Choreatmosphere" at Hochschule für Musik und Theater (HfMT) in Hamburg

Text: Jennifer Fandrich

In the last months we had two successful presentations of the Art&Science Project of TRR181. In February there was a first presentation of the music piece “Choreatmosphere: spatial intuitions of energy” by Victor Ernesto Gutiérrez Cuiza aka VictorPiano. The multimedia composer worked closely together with our TRR PhD candidate Valentino Neduhal. This 20 minute piece is divided into five smaller movements. Valentino and Victor created a very atmospheric piece with data from Valentino and his supervisor Prof. Dr. Nedjeljka Žagar from Universität Hamburg. In a room full of speakers in a 360 degree arragement at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg we listened to the composition that also included a live performance of flute player Gabrijela Sušek. Currently Victor is working to transfer the piece to a stereo system, so that it´s possible to listen to it also without this very specialised 360 degree speaker system. The audience was touched and fascinated after each of the three presentations – Nedejljka even said she could hear the gravity waves – that is of course the expert scientist speaking, but it was incredible fascinating to hear the sounds moving through the whole room. We hope now to be able to present this piece to a wider audience again some time.

I would like to thank everyone and especially the ones I haven't named in the text who helped realizing these events. We are looking forward to more repetitions and new projects.