DOME_LIVE 038 The Horsefly, the Hornet, and the Longhorn Beetle
Electronic/Sound Art
Classical/Contemporary
Szervezés:
DOME_LIVE 038 The Horsefly, the Hornet, and the Longhorn Beetle
This programme is held in Hungarian.
Three bug-eyed lads set out on a journey: the foolish wasper, the begging bloodsucker, and the forgetful mystic. They buzz, they stomp, they dream – and we peek after them through a caterpillar-chewed leaf. What would you see if you were an insect? What would you hear if your six legs were tapping restlessly among the dewdrops?
This musical performance is different every time. It always consists of ten to fifteen episodes, but we choose them from a large pool, and even the order of identical parts is different. Like when you walk in the forest: you never see the same thing twice. One evening the puppets awaken, another time the lily-of-the-valley heads start to chime, a third time the shadows detach from the characters. The stories fit together modularly, like leaves on the branches – they always form a different pattern, yet every combination comes together into a meaningful whole.
The sound material is built from recorded buzzing of real insects, percussive musical noises, and electronic sounds. Adél Jordán’s voice guides the audience between the three characters, while the 36 speakers of the Sound Dome fling the sounds around as if you were inside the nest – or inside the tree where the longhorn beetle gnaws forward ring by ring through the years. János Bali has been working with spatially moving insect sounds for almost a decade, and for this piece the sounds of three insects in flight – the horsefly, the hornet, and the longhorn beetle – proved to be the most interesting. Hence the title.
Olga Kocsi’s visual work creates a neuro-safe dome-style visual world adapted to the features of the sound dome and to the audience’s sensitivities.
The visual world consists primarily of animations based on subtle movements and slow transformations, analog montages, and hand-drawn elements, which closely follow the structure of the sound material and the narration, breathing together with them.
The goal of the visual concept is to create a safe, receivable, and inclusive experience that is accessible even for viewers with sensitive nervous systems, while preserving the poetic, surreal, and reflective character of the work.
The texts and small, open-ended stories are shaped by the poet Mátyás Sirokai, who, after having guided us into the world of trees and rocks in previous volumes, now evokes the world of insects with the help of the magic of poetry. The episodes are formed from the free germ-ideas of all the creators and fit together as they do in nature: logically, yet surprisingly.
Why now, why for us? Because insects are disappearing, and sometimes we forget that we live in the same world with them. This piece does not preach – it is magical, humorous, and mysterious. But at the same time it asks: who observes the observer? Who puppeteers the puppeteer? And if buzzing, gnawing, and whispering are already music, then perhaps our speech is just another insect sound in the great symphony.
25 minutes. Different every evening. For children and adults.
Creators:
Composer: János Bali
Visuals: Olga Kocsi
Text: Mátyás Sirokai
Narration: Adél Jordán
Percussion: Dávid Burcsik, Dániel Láposi, Benjamin Mohácsi
Dear Visitor, We kindly inform you that during the event, photographs, audio recordings, and/or video recordings may be taken. By attending the event, you consent to the recording of such materials through your implied conduct.
In the underground levels of the House of Music Hungary lies the Sound Dome. This is where the program begins, with a short film providing an unusual acoustic and visual experience, after which the visitors are shown an increasing number of similar films.
