Musik für das Ende
Soundstreams
Claude Vivier's masterpiece: where everything becomes endless silence
His music had the scent of vanilla and incense, said the critics. And they were enchanted by it. Loneliness, death, love and eternity are the outspoken Leitmotifs in the work of the Canadian composer Claude Vivier. His energy comes as a curious contrast to his obsession with death. In Musik für das Ende, a sound ritual for a twenty-strong choir and percussion, he ceremonially describes the transition from life to death, in which mankind, purified, finally becomes one again.
programme
Claude Vivier (1948-1983)
Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele
Musik für das Ende
Il faisait nuit (monologue, inspired by Claude Vivier’s letters and diaries)
Claude Vivier (1948-1983)
Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele
Musik für das Ende
Il faisait nuit (mon
performers
Soundstreams: ensemble
Paul Ahmarani: actor
Chris Abraham: director
Zack Russell: playwright & associate director
David Fallis: music director & synthesizer
Judith Bowden: set & costume designer
Kimberly Purtell: lighting designer
Adam Scime: sound designer
Soundstreams: ensemble
Paul Ahmarani: actor
Chris Abraham: director
Zack Russell: playwright & associate direc