VaMH Präsentation #88 • Brigitta Muntendorf Sound dramaturges on the example of ORBIT - A War Series Brigitta Muntendorf

Monday, 29.04.2024 - 11:30 • ligeti center Veritaskai 1 21079 Hamburg VaMH Präsentation #88 • Brigitta Muntendorf Sound dramaturges on the example of ORBIT - A War Series 3D-Audio Space Oratorio for AI Voice Clones and Electronics Immersion requires its own dramaturgies to bring music, narrative, and the role of the audience into a specific engagement for this medium. The 3D-Audio Space Oratorio ORBIT - A War Series, premiered at the Biennale Musica Venice 2023, explores dramaturgies and narratives that partially originate in virtual reference spaces, such as Environmental Storytelling, and new formats based on an interaction between composition and reception. The use of sound synthesis, AI, and deep learning technologies for digital voice and singing generation creates immortal warriors and a posthuman, techno-futuristic choir that proclaims the opera of the future, both sensuous and political. The use of artificial singers seems a logical consequence of immersion: In a space where sound takes on actions and performance, it is automatically the audience that, as a physically present entity, is assigned a new role. Brigitta Muntendorf In her works, German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf creates a sound cosmos of analogue-digital expression with her often large-format music, dance theatre or 3D-sound projects. Her most recent compositions include ARCHIPEL (Ruhrtriennale/Theater der Welt/Tanz im August, 2021), a project with dance company MOUVOIR and architect Sou Fujimoto, and MELENCOLIA (Bregenzer Festspiele, 2022), a transdigital music theatre for Ensemble Modern. In 2023, she presented ORBIT – A War Series at the Biennale di Venezia, a 3D-Audio space oratorium based on Nancy Spero’s War Series about the wars against the female body for AI Voice Clones and electronics. Muntendorf is recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Composers Prize and the German GEMA German Music Authors’ Prize. In 2023, the recording of her Trilogy for two pianos was awarded with the German Record Critics’ Award. Her works are presented at international music and art festivals such as Kyoto Experiment, ULTIMA Oslo, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Munich Biennial, Hollandfestival or Festival d'Automne Paris. Her current research happens in scientific-artistic collaborations with partners such as d&b audio and S+T+ARTS / Ars Electronica. Since 2018 she is professor for composition at the HfMT Cologne and director of the Institute for Contemporary Music. https://brigitta-muntendorf.de/ .......................................... Monday, 29.04.2024 - 11:30 • ligeti center Veritaskai 1 21079 Hamburg VaMH Präsentation #88 • Brigitta Muntendorf Sound dramaturges on the example of ORBIT - A War Series 3D-Audio Space Oratorio for AI Voice Clones and Electronics .................................................................. “Präsentationen” ist eine Vortragsreihe des Verbands für aktuelle Musik Hamburg zu verschiedenen Positionen aktueller Musik. In der Vortragsreihe stellen Musiker:innen, Komponist:innen, Klangkünstler:innen und Theoretiker:innen ihre Arbeiten vor oder sprechen zu einem spezifischen Thema aus dem Bereich der aktuellen Musik. Eintritt zur Präsentation ist frei. .................................................. "Präsentationen" is a lecture series of the VAMH on various positions of contemporary music. In the lecture series, musicians, composers, sound artists and theorists present their work or lecture on a specific topic from the field of contemporary music. The series of presentations is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ........... Video recordings of the presentations: https://vamh.de/presentations/videos