Peter Breitenbach
is a sound artist whose work traverses sound installation, performative sound art and sound for theatre and dance. In his installations and performances he is investigating the relationship of movement and sound, through the development of software and hardware as part of sculptural objects and instruments.
Dreaming Collectives. Tapping Sheep.
(State 3)
by Rimini Protokoll
Theatre | Compostion | Sound Design
About
With their series State 1–4, Rimini Protokoll sets out to explore phenomena of post democracy. “Dreaming Collectives. Tapping Sheep” is one out of the four theater productions and is exploring potentials and dangers of the digitalisation for the processes of democracy. [Source]
Sound Design and Composition:
The set-up consists of 120 mobile phones, which are networked via a server. From a compositional perspective, this network is forming a surround system with 120 discrete channels. This sound set-up is complemented by a quadrophony and by several speakers on the ceiling. During the play, spectators are asked to inquire about the phone's screen. The answers are selected via the touch screen and collected and analyzed by the artificial intelligence IRIS. Each of the answers is associated with a color and a sound. The statistical distribution becomes audible as sound transmitted by the loudspeaker of the phones. In addition, the corresponding colors are projected as a statistical distribution.
Sound example:
- Concept, script, direction: Daniel Wetzel
- Co-author: Ioanna Valsamidou
- With: Kostis Kallivretakis, Vassilis Koukalani
- Stage: Magda Plevraki
- Software System Design and Implementation: Dimitris Trakas (VIRA)
- Music, Sound Design: Lambros Pigounis, Peter Breitenbach
- Light, Technical Director: Martin Schwemin
- Dramaturg: Julia Weinreich
- Director assistance, Research: Andreas Andreou
- Assistance, Research: Annette Müller
- Director assistance: Nora Otte
- Stage assistance: Natasha Tsintikidi, Anna Alma Quastenberg
- Assistance Szenographie: Guy Stefanou
- Gui design: Renia Papathanasiou (VIRA)
- Video-Animation: Grit Schuster
- Video: Mathias Oster
- Live Statistic Video: Caspar Schirdewahn
- On the Video: Detlef Rohrmann
- Voices: Rosa-Mathilde Muck, Oskar Loßnitzer, Zoï Wetzel
- Production manager State 3: Violetta Gyra, Paula Oevermann
- Project coordinator State 1-4: Jessica Páez
- Third Eye, Dramaturg State 1-4: Imanuel Schipper
- Production assistence Rimini Protokoll: Anna Florin
- Intern: Mathias Oster, Caspar Schirdewahn, Dimos Klimenof, Vassilis Lianos, Konstantina Ypsilopati (CGS Athen)
- Stage Manager: Normen Schäfer︎
Photos by Martin Merkur
Book:
Rimini Protokoll: Staat 1–4: Phänomene der Postdemokratie
by Imanuel Schipper
Photo by Martin Merkur
Performances:
- Dresden, Schauspielhaus Dresden
- Dusseldorf, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
- Zurich, Schauspielhaus Zürich