Concept / Installation / Staging > Penelope Wehrli; Voice / Dance > Rickie Eden; Barock Ensemble > Lauttencompagney Berlin; Musical Concept / Sound Space > Sam Auinger / katrinem; Costume > Ellen Hofmann; Motion-Tracking / Video Software > Dominik Rinnhofer; Audiosoftware > Joa Glasstetter; Camera / Image Processing > Sirko Knüpfer; Technical Director / Machine / Construction > Peter Buchheit; Dramaturgic Advisor > Detlev Schneider In the beginning the space is silent. Eurydice’s image has dissolved. Orfeo led Euridice up from the underworld. On this path he was not allowed to turn back at her. But he turned around, and Eurydice disappeared. Orpheus must turn around in order to constantly re-invent Eurydice. camera orfeo is a spatial score made up of several parallel and linked image and sound levels, mirrored projection surfaces and projectors moving on tracks between which visitors can move about freely.
Monteverdi’s central aria „Possente Spirito“/„Orfeo son Io“ (10:17) and a short movement succession on video performed by the singer and performer Rickie Eden are cut into 1453 sequences and saved in a databank.
The movements of the audience and the spacial objects’ are recorded in certain time intervals by motion tracking and thus cause images and sounds to be triggered.
It is unforeseeable what musical and visual-choreographic permutations will occur: The aria from Monteverdi’s Orfeo segmented into its individual instrumental voices and breathing phrases (540 minutes of material are generated in this way); the endoscopic recording of the singer’s vocal cords while singing the aria; the fragmented and multiplied/ mirrored projections of the walking performer and individual letters of the alphabet.
At irregular intervals music and images are suddenly interrupted: a sound-live-feed from the urban environment outside of the space is introduced and the audience’s movement, seen from a bird’s-eye view, is projected 1:1 on the wall. After a period of two minutes the motion tracking begins again.