- Program Notes
- At the data collection agency ‘Re-sounding Success’, call centre workers equipped with instruments sit behind their computer screens, waiting (played by Andreas Borregaard and Anna Sakham Jalving). While they wait to be transferred, the hold-music of each company on their call-list is played by a live house band that can only be glimpsed as silhouettes behind an illuminated screen. (hold-music trio: Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao Tung Yuan and Joss Smith). Operating at the boundaries of new music, experimental theatre involving audience participation, and interactive installation art, the project’s central themes land on the unsettling musicality buried in repetitive labour, cold-calling and workplace technology; the psychological effects of hold-music; and existential questions surrounding time, purpose and agency.
- Recording Notes
- Performance date and venue: 04.02.2024 - Teater Refleksion, Aarhus
Team:
Composition/concept: Matthew Grouse
Produced by: Aarhus Unge Tonekunstnere
Soloists: Andreas Borregaard (accordion and voice) and Anna Jalving (violin and voice)
Ensemble musicians: Hsiao Tung Yuan (percussion, keyboards, voice), Kirstine Elise Pedersen (cello, guitar, voice), Joss Smith (clarinet, whistles, melodica, voice)
Staging/directing consultant: Anna Sofie Keller Brandsborg
Sound technician: Morten Elkjær
Production assistance: Jacob Ridderberg and Frederik Sakham
Contributions to installation and visuals: Jan Giedroyc
Voice acting: Jan Giedroyc, Lily Grouse, Sam Wilson, Harry Gorski-Brown, Mathilde Schelin, Matthew Grouse
In partnership with: Current Resonance, Teater Refleksion, K!ART, Don't Look Back records
Documentation:
Camera/Videography: Spektrals
Post-production audio: Matthew Grouse
Photography: Malte Bülow Photography
- Performer Credits
- Anna Jalving, Andreas Borregaard, Joss Smith, Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao-Tung Yuan
