POSTPRODUCTIONS

2020 – 2021

music theater/concert for three performers



Postproductions is a performance conceived as both a concert and a proper musical work. Following the instructions of a "composer-curator", three participants present exclusively pieces borrowed from other composers, visual artists or authors. The works mobilized for the occasion share two characteristics: they are all text-based and involve at some level the use, or rather the misuse, of techniques and technologies of conservation, transmission and reproduction of sound. This triad of terms, synonymous with documentation or more generally with the mediation of perceptual experiences, is also the basis of the organization of the work. Verbal scores exist as part of the situation in three distinct forms: as such, i.e. as descriptive and or prescriptive text of a sequence of actions, as the actual, integral and valid actualization of them and, finally, as documentation of their earlier occurrences.

The performance is accompanied by a "libretto" including a presentation essay, the totality of the verbal scores played, projected or documented as well as a system of cross-references having function of "meta-partition" –verbal too– in which the public can find all the decisions of the "composer-curator" as for the implementation of the pieces and their origin. The listener has therefore, in addition to a diachronic implementation of the works, a synoptic support giving him total access to the contents of the concert.




music theater/concert for three performers, video, laptops, various microphones, instruments and objects + clandestine libretto

performance:
11.09.2021, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich

performers:
Benjamin Jaton, Killian Perret-Gentil, Raphaël Belfiore

production:
IGNM Zürich

embedded works from:
Peter Ablinger / Vito Acconci / G. Douglas Barrett / Robert Bozzi / George Brecht / John Cage / Budhaditya Chattopadhyay / Nicolas Collins / Bernhard Garnicnig / Scott Fitzgerald / Takehisa Kosugi / Christine Kozlov / Johannes Kreidler / Isaac Linder / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Richard Maxfield / Igal Nassima / Bruce Nauman / Non-Cochlear Posting / Tobias Reber / Terry Riley / Sean Smith / The Institute Of ACES / Michael Trommer / Ben Vautier / Michael Winter


libretto (pdf)
upcoming:       21 - 24.03.2024, Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel / Contents: exhibition              21.03.2024, Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel / Contents: performance evening with Frantz Loriot                –