OUT OF SIGHT –
Invisible Voices

Compositions by
Superposition and Hannes Seidl
Premiere: 14./15. February 2025.

Blender
In “Blender”, the singing of sounds, vocal noises and scraps of speech are interwoven into an organism whose identity remains ambiguous. The listener encounters the multi-layered voices of a hybrid being that sounds both human and artificial: a fabric of sung and synthetic vocal harmonies, manipulated voice samples, grunts and hisses, breathing, voice output from a learning computer and glitches.

Superposition
The two artists and musicians Julius Bockelt and Sven Fritz have been working together as Superposition in the context of Atelier Goldstein since 2014. Their experimental music performances use Casio keyboards, learning computers, modular synthesizers, percussive elements, field recordings and their own voices. Their improvisations have been presented at MMK Frankfurt, Museum Folkwang in Essen, documenta fifteen in Kassel and the Goethe Institute in Tokyo, among others.
Website: www.atelier-goldstein.de

Lend Me Your Ear
The piece takes the English phrase of the same name literally and so I asked artist friends to lend me their ear and send me recordings of places they hear where they live. The result is a multi-perspective (dream) journey through Philadelphia, London, Brussels, Hong Kong and Cairo. With contributions from Charles Kwong, Natalia Orendain, David Helbich, Jacqueline George and amicus e. quorum.

Hannes Seidl (*1977) often works as a composer in collaboration with other artists on concert music, music theater and installations. His focus is on cross-genre formats, such as the performative exhibition format “We Can Be Heroes” (2021) or radio concerts such as “You Are Here” (2020) and “Good Morning Deutschland” (2016). He has received numerous international awards and regularly performs internationally with renowned contemporary music ensembles. Hannes Seidl lives in Frankfurt a. M.
Website: www.hannesseidl.de