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Peter Breitenbach | Sound Artist

Immersive sound works - installations, performances,
sound dramaturgy, and design.



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Arcana Swarm

by Kat Válastur


Dance | Sound Design | Composition | Live Mixing




“The sound, the objects, the diffuse light, the emotional states of suspension, the karst and exalted movements - all of this seems bizarre and puzzling, sometimes disturbing and frightening. And everything together results in the image of an obsessive-compulsive neurotic society - that seems to be its present diagnosis here. There is no well-tempered equilibrium, only states of constant excitement.
This is nothing new as a diagnosis, but it is accurate and perfectly staged by Kat Valastur in one of her most haunting pieces.”
- Frank Schmid, rbbKultur (21-11-2019) [Source]




Concept, script & choreography: Kat Válastur
Performance: Juan Pablo Cámara, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Gaetano Montecasino, Ogbitse Omagbemi, Tamar Sonn, Sarah Stanley, Tiran Willemse
Light design: Martin Beeretz
Sound design: Peter Breitenbach
Set design: Leon Eixenberger
Costume: Kat Válastur
Dramaturgical advice: Einav Katan-Schmid, Maja Zimmermann Outside eye: Alexandra Balona / Yiannis Papachristos 
Assistance choreography: Kévin Quinaou
Production management: HAU Artist Office / Sabine Seifert
Touring & distribution: HAU Artist Office / Nicole Schuchardt

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Video, editing: Kat Válastur
Music: Peter Breitenbach (Composition for ›Arcana Swarm‹)
Images, documentary photography: Richard Drew, Sebastiao Salgado, Robert Frank
Paintings, art works: Jan Van Eyk, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jacopo Pontormo, Théodore Géricault, Pieter Bruegel, intertwined with excerpts from the piece ›Arcana Swarm‹



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