∞ Mister Breath ∞

Musical and visual sketches for the operatic performance setup.

Mister Breath, costume design by Sophie Paternotte
a 3 minute pitch

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a musical sketch combining the composed music and previously produced techno tracks by DJ Aschka
a musical sketch of the composed music (Sibelius Ultimate)
“the life we live” by DJ Aschka
“Cable remix” by DJ Aschka
“Breaking” by DJ Aschka

CHOIR sketches in Sibelius Ultimate (which means no words)

1/ CHOIR in Part 1 (during text see page 9 to 11) 

Eventually choir sings with following vowels:
Soprano: aa
Alto: ee
Tenor Uh + eye
Bass: Uh + oo

2/ Waltz for Part 2 (text on page 12)

Eventually choir sings with following text:
CHOIR: (a cappella & in Waltz style)
You are. I am. I am. You are. There. Here. Now. 
With a snake. Eating its tail. Like a circle around us. 
We stare and feel. We feel and stare. We gaze at the gaze. 
The snake turns into an 8. Eating its tail. Touching its tale.
We switch to two circles. And play. living statue.
There. Here. Now. We are. We exist. We have life. We breathe. 

3/ Rap in Part 3 (text on page 18)

scores for DJ, violas & wind will be added later
Hereby a recording of Sigrid speaking and tapping on the table.
CHOIR (as a rap music) 
Hey, you there! Hey, you here! Welcome to the most mysterious gifts of nature. 
Welcome to the source of life. Water as a source of food, a rail to something, a ground for cleansing and purification, an element to breath in and an element to breath out… 
Life lives in all its aspects. Let’s embrace it. Let’s pump it up! 

Scenographical Sketches

scenographical sketches

Another project in the making: The Nightingale

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Portfolio

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Some references to previous work

Tryout at the Tristero House (Brussels) of “THERE HERE NOW”.
Work in progress for a performance installation.

From the archives of Visual Kitchen, a VJ collective co-founded by Sam Vanoverschelde

A few excerpts from “Patterns in a Chromatic Field”, composed by Morton Feldman, as played at the premiere at Festival van Vlaanderen – Kortrijk on april 25th 2013. 
Cello: Arne Deforce
Piano: Yutaka Oya
Visuals: Visual Kitchen
Recording of a concert at Concertgebouw Bruges, 17-09-05 with recorder ensemble Apsara, Eavesdropper on electronics and Visual Kitchen on video. Blending wood and electricity on all levels…
years after its realisation, the electronic tape piece Murtuos Plango, Vivos Voco remains one of the most fascinating adventures in electroacoustics and one of Jonathan Harvey’s best pieces. On invitation of the Gaida Festival (Vilnius), artistic curator Lieven Bertels and the video collective Visual Kitchen devised a video installation to complement this piece and to invite listeners to engage with the ‘surround sound’ nature of the piece more actively. The audience is invited to become part of a sequence of abstract video tableaus projected on a square surface on the floor.

Other visual Kitchen performances in the classical realm:

“Aquarius”
Opera by Karel Goeyvaerts.
Directed by Pierre Audi
Musical Direction by Sian Edwards
Stage Design by Christophe Hetzer
Produced by Holland Festival and Vlaamse Opera
Performed by Nederlands Kamerkoor,  Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera, Warre Borgmans
Karel Goeyvaerts composed this opera, his magnum opus, commissioned by the Antwerpen’93 European Cultural Capital organization, but never saw the first staging, as he passed away shortly before. Visual Kitchen created the visuals for the backdrops. Photo credits: Vlaamse Opera

Opera composed by Luciano Berio
Voice by Mike Patton
Visual Kitchen produced the video’s accompanying the audio tapes that are played during the performance
Conducted by Georges-Elie Octors
Performed by Ictus Ensemble, Nederlands Kamerkoor 
commissioned by Concertgebouw, Brugge
Visual Kitchen produced the video’s accompanying the audio tapes that are played during the performance
Unfortunately, there’s nothing more but this picture in the archives.