PHØNIX16
BALKAN ROUTE

// video projections

The Balkans connect the Orient and the Occident, and are the cradle of European democracy. At the same time, it has also been the scene of wars and dictatorships for centuries – and recently for a refugee drama that has shocked the world.

The Balkan route of the Berlin vocal ensemble PHØNIX16 begins in Turkey and leads via Greece, Serbia and Croatia to Slovenia. It tells of death, suffering, expulsion and oppression, of homelessness, but it also tells of resistance to terror and ultimately even of a defiant love of life and the utopian hope of togetherness and happiness.

Vocal works by Iannis Xenakis, Ivo Malec, Branimir Sakač and Vinko Globokar are confronted with electronic music from the Balkans of the 1970s. And so this concert also becomes a musical expedition into a musical terrain that is unknown in this country and into an epoch that, although it is not so long ago, is largely unknown. Works can be heard that seem like pre-echoes of the most recent tremors.

http://phoenix16.de/ultraschall-balkan-route

The venue the audience have been used as a projection surface making a spacial projection captured by additional haze/fog that filled the whole space. The projections have been synchronised with music, considered the surround sound and coming as abstract images in all shapes and sizes from all the corners of the venue.

Performed at the Ultraschall Festival Berlin (Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, January 2017)