PHACE | IRRÉALITÉS / UNREALITIES

Peyee Chen, voice

PHACE
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Maria Chlebus, percussion
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin

MEDIA
Thomas J. Jelinek, room staging
and lighting design

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

Confrontations between the real and the imaginary have been a part of human coexistence for thousands of years. Societies created mythologies, stories, fairy tales and communal dreams, stimulating the imagination and producing a distinct “cultural body” in an effort to explore the real and transform it through the imagination. Based on the concept of morphism and dysmorphism, IRRÉALITÉS / UNREALITIES by Januibe Tejera examines how music can connect the diversity of this cultural body, not based on cultural similarities, but organized by an acoustic reality. Tejera, whose work lies somewhere on the borders between various musical styles and scenic arts, transfers the mechanisms of communal imagination into a musical reality. Using autogenerative sound models, the work is imagined in real time for voice, ensemble and electronics, creating a new vocabulary of unrealities and unreal sound models. With a distinctive sound identity for each musician and electronic improvisation, the project creates a sonic reality in which the boundaries of voice, instruments and electronics are no longer perceptible, but are mixed into a large and limitless, unreal and dysmorphic sound space.