Sound installation, 10 min
Before shows, Grosse Halle
«Welcome to Body-Opera, this opera will allow you to focus on sound and the body. Body-Opera is dedicated to your body, it examines different ways in which you may feel and embody the sound – this is the libretto for the opera. In Italian opera means «work»… and we understand it as work through sound, work with and about sound.»
Perception is embodied; we do not experience music as an abstract intellectual process through our brain, ears and eyes only. Sound is a frequency, a vibration, and a very dynamic material, which also «touches» our body and our emotions.
Body-Opera is dedicated to the audience; it explores the relationships between the human body and the sound and reflects on the physical nature of the main element of music. Body-Opera is composed for vibrating transducer speakers which are hidden in pillows, located on yoga mats arranged in a performance venue. Transducer speakers not only project sound, but also vibrate with specific frequencies, what allows experiencing sounds in a very immersive way.
Body-Opera is accessible each day of the festival before the first show:
26.11 17:30-18:30
27.11 19:00-20:30
28.11 13:00-14:00
Sound performance, min. 60 min
home edition – book online
for more info please scroll down
18:00-19:30 Grosse Halle
«Symphony No.3 connects any point to any other point, it allows unrestricted movement between fields of possibilities, themes, categories, it territorializes and deterritorializes the soundscape.»
Symphony No.3 is composed for 222 small wireless speakers that are arranged around the concert space by performers. Symphony No.3 consists of five movements that can be looped or played in any order.
Wojtek Blecharz: «The most intense period of work on Symphony No.3 happened during the 1st lockdown, in isolation, when experiencing live music, both in concerts and clubs, was taken away from us. Music became forbidden and different forms of expressing sound (singing and dancing) became potentially dangerous to our health. In many ways we started mourning live sounds…either the human voice, an ethereal pianissimo of a string orchestra or a heavy, embodied bass on a Monday morning in a club…»
Originally, Symphony No.3 was supposed to be premiered in a large hall at Donaueschinger Musiktage, where the audience could walk between the speakers like they would walk between the «paths» of a sound-garden, but smaller spaces, or spaces with several rooms are also possible to present the piece. The festival in 2020 and 2021 was cancelled.
At BONE_21, symphony No. 3 will be performed Sunday after sundown at Grosse Halle.
Additionally, Wojtek will offer two very exclusive experiences of Symphony No. 3 at private households in Bern. If you would like to book this experience, please write an email with three possible time-slots of 1h each during the days of 26.-27.11.
to: symphony3@boneperformance.com.
Both festival-attendees and non-attendees are welcome to request a session. Please mention your situation in your email so that people who are not able to attend this, or other festivals, due to vulnerability to the pandemic or for other reasons, can be prioritized.
Credits:
Composition/performance: Wojtek Blecharz
Costume/assistance: Nico Navarro Rueda
Wojtek Blecharz (they/them)
is a composer and has been curating the Instalakcje music festival at Warsaw’s Nowy Theater since 2012, featuring non-concert music: sound installations, performance installations, sound sculptures, music videos, music theater and others. Blecharz has also directed three of his opera-installations Transcryptum (2013) commissioned by Grand Theater National Opera in Warsaw, Park-Opera (2016) commissioned by Theater Powszechny in Warsaw and Body-Opera commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2016).