۝ Liederbuch der Apokalypsen ۝ Songbook of the Apocalipsis

Liederbuch der Apokalypsen is an A/V composition for a choir with extended techniques, live electronics, live video, and tape. The piece articulates an ecosystem of vocal performative practices based on a post-human and materialistic perspective of voices and beings. A trans synthetic approach to vocal transitions and interpolations between human, animal, and robotic performative practices. Blending choral performance, electronics, and video art into apocalyptic themes from a post-human perspective. Envisioning a cosmic revelation where an otherworldly entity delivers a vision of the world's end, the performers embody a range of voices through extended vocal techniques and experimental vocal processing—from human to animal to machine.

The work is structured as a songbook (»Liederbuch«) that invites reflection on the doomed cosmos of hyper-technical knowledge even as it calls for new ways of coexisting as we witness the end of the »white dazzle night« of the Enlightenment. The piece was developed during a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program residency in 2024, co-produced with and featuring video design by the artist Dafne Narvaez Berlfein.

The performance premiered with sold-out tickets at the 2025 edition of the CTM Festival in the venue Radial System during the Berlin winter.

Liederbuch der Apokalypsen

Piece lenght: 37-39 minutes

Choir

Audrey Chen,
Anna Clementi,
Alessandra Eramo,
Nina Guo,
Christian Kesten,
Elisabetta Lanfredini,
Ligia Liberatori,
and Ute Wassermann.

Live video& mapping

Dafne Narvaez Berlfein

Stage design

Dafne Narvaez Berlfein & Agustín Genoud

Cameras, video technical setup & operation

Orange Ear

Composition, voice & live processing

Agustín Genoud

Choir | Voices

This choir is envisioned as a tool for hacking the vocal sound performative proceses, is an important step of an ongoing research in vocal practices and it’s performative nesting through vocal producing beings (mammals, birds, robots and exovocal systems).

The aim is to explore techno-vocal performative practices that oscillate between human, animal & robotic vocalizations from a post-human and new materialistic perspective. The piece is a journey through multiple vocal worlds that articulate organic and artificial, human, machine and animal.