Recordings
Daisy, Daisy: Udo Wüstendörfer (Recording Producer), Lisa Harnest (sound engineer),
Artur Büschel, Stefan Emrich (sound technician), 2020 Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt
Le Chant de Zidane – Tuba Mirum, Nekropolis: Österreichischer Rundfunk [Radio Österreich 1], Christoph Maria Holzer (sound engineer), Stefan Höfel (Recording Producer), 2022 Bregenzer Festspiele
Lullaby of the unborn, Le Chant de Zidane – Tuba Mirum (fragments): Felix Dreher (sound engineer), 2024 Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA), Frankfurt
Theory Mediations: Tommaso Campagna, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
composition, dramaturgy Brigitta Muntendorf dramaturgy Moritz Lobeck Theory Meditations, Voice Geert Lovink sound direction (live) Norbert Ommer electronics (live) Lukas Nowok Sound engineers Christoph Maria Holzer, Norbert Ommer, Felix Dreher Master Felix Dreher
Ensemble Modern
Flute, piccolo, bass flute: Dietmar Wiesner
Oboe: Christian Hommel
Clarinet: Jaan Bossier, Hugo Queirós
Horn: Ona Ramos Tintó
Trumpet: Sava Stoianov
Trombone: Uwe Dierksen
Piano, sampler: Ueli Wiget
Percussion: David Haller, Rainer Römer
violin: Jagdish Mistry, Giorgos Panagiotidis
Viola: Megumi Kasakawa
Violoncello: Michael M. Kasper
Double bass, electric bass: Paul Cannon
Special Guest
Ney-anbān Saeid Shanbehzadeh
In 2022, the trans-digital musical theatre show MELENCOLIA – a Show against the Indifference of the Universe celebrated its premiere at the Bregenz Festival, performed by Ensemble Modern. In 3D audio landscapes, the musicians of Ensemble Modern encountered virtual guests such as the Iranian ney and anban virtuoso Saeid Shanbehzadeh and their own digital twins. The writings of the media theorist and internet critic Geert Lovink played a central role in conceiving the work. Now MELENCOLIC MEDLEY is released as a vinyl album that blends audio material from MELENCOLIA with sadness mediations and hopecores by Geert Lovink. They point to »digital melancholy and try to countermand the colonization of our inner worlds«. The Meditations on Sadness by Geert Lovink can be read in the folder in English and Persian translation.
