brigitta muntendorf

Public Privacy #5 ARIA

music / video
Brigitta Muntendorf

premiere
April 2016 | Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik

performer / written for
Malgorzata Walentynowicz

duration
9:00 min

technical setup
video projection (16:9, three options: a) prerecorded video or b) live camera in front of the performer c) both projections), stereo-tape, sampler with local amplification + sampler program (for example NI-Kontakt), TC Helicon Voicelive 2 effect device for voice

for sampler/voice and fixed media

Excerpt Public Privacy #5 ARIA // Terzwerk TV

In ARIA, but also in the following “Public Pricacy #6 bright no more” for solo voice, there is no interaction with YouTube instrumentalists, instead it is about the staging of the inner world and the dialogue with the presenting self. The series explores the form I call Social Composing and the related question of the demarcation between the private and the public.

“Come into my inhabitable world”. With this spoken sentence the pianist opens Public Privacy #5 voice ARIA and enters into an interplay between spoken words and triggered samples of a voice. The voice is sighing, soughing, singing. Is it possible to be touched in any way by a digital voice, by a sample? Have our perceptions, our feelings and our relationships already changed in the age of post-digitality? Public Privacy#Aria invites us to enter the territory of an interplay between retrieval and creation.