BÚSQUEDA DE ÓPERA
Blank Out
(2015)Libretto and film script by Michel van der Aa, based on Texts by Ingrid Jonker in a translation by Antije Krog and André P. Brink (E)
S-Bar-choir-soundtrack(4channel); film(3D).
Bar and choir only on film
Abreviaturas (PDF)
Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam
Michel van der Aa, director
Compañía: Miah Persson, Roderick Williams / Nederlands Kamerkoor
A profoundly humane story and a technological innovation: Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out combines emotion and high tech. In this stage work, interactive 3D film and live electronics accompany the soloistic tour de force for a soprano. Her male counterpart answers on the 3D screen. Childhood memories, urban solitude, and traumatic life experiences stand in the focus of this work, which is based on the life and work of the South-African authoress Ingrid Jonker, who suffered a tragic death. Blank Out creates a sonic landscape in which music and noises are generated from the movements of the 3D camera – guided by the singer alone, without orchestra and conductor. The camera reacts to her emotional expedition, allowing fascinating worlds to arise out of a miniature model.
Dramatic