VORTEX #2 - PANDEMIC WHIRLS

DAY 2: PANDEMIC WHIRLS

“...the arts have been suffocated under weapons and kicked into the mud...” H.Schütz

Performance multimedia concert

• Heinrich Schütz (1885-1672)
  Make haste, God, to save me, Lord, to help me , SWV 282
  O Jesu, nomen dulce , SWV 308
  O misericordissime Jesu , SWV 309
  
  Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
  Lamento d'Arianna from: Arie e Lamenti
  “Si Dolce È Il Tormento” from: Arie e Lamenti (libro nono)

  Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
  Canzoni, libro I, No.8 à basso solo
  Canzoni, libro I, No.6 à basso solo

  Canzoni, libro Ib, No.5 à basso solo
  Canzoni, libro I, No.7 à basso solo
  Canzoni, libro I, Canzona seconda detta la Bernadina
  Aria detta la Frescobalda

  Dong Zhou (*1992)
  UA Sound Installation

  occupation
  Pia Davila. soprano
  musica assoluta
  Thorsten Encke. conductor

  During Schütz's time, musical life came to a complete standstill due to the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent plague. Schütz used the time to make a pilgrimage to Venice; did he meet Monteverdi there? It is an unproven assumption.
  Is there a parallel to today? Or is this the fundamental difference: Back then people composed in honor of a believed God, today people themselves intervene in life like a god. Biotechnology and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI or AI) are already completely transforming human life. Nobody can say what will happen. Enough material for a multimedia installation in which not only the performers but also the musicians themselves are required as actors. Live music by Heinrich Schütz, Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi collides with a video-sound installation by the young Chinese multimedia artist Dong Zhou.

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