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 quirky lads set out on a journey: the foolish wasp-wizard, the begging bloodsucker, and the forgetful mystic. They buzz, they stomp, they dream – and we spy on 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 from a large pool, and even the order of identical parts varies. Like when you walk in the forest: you never see the same thing twice. One evening the puppets wake up, another time the lily-of-the-valley heads begin to chime, a third time shadows peel away from the characters. The stories fit together modularly, like leaves on branches – they always form a different pattern, yet every combination comes together as a meaningful whole.
The sound material is built from recorded buzzing of real insects, musical noises of percussion instruments, and electronic sounds. The voice of Adél Jordán guides the audience among 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 its way forward ring by ring. János Bali has been working with spatially moved 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 imagery adapted to the characteristics of the sound dome and to audience sensitivities.
The visual world consists primarily of animations built on subtle movements and slow transformations, analog montages, and hand-drawn elements which, closely connected to the structure of the sound material and the narration, breathe together with them.
The aim of the visual concept is to create a safe, accessible, and inclusive experience that is available even to 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, having already guided us into the world of trees and rocks in earlier volumes, now evokes the world of insects with the help of the magic of poetry. The episodes take shape from the free idea-seeds of all the creators and fit together the way things do in nature: logically, yet surprisingly.
Why now, why for us? Because insects are disappearing, and we sometimes forget that we share a world with them. This piece does not preach – it is magical, humorous, and mysterious. But at the same time it asks: who is watching the watcher? Who puppeteers the puppeteer? And if buzzing, chewing, 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:
Composers: János Bali, Dávid Burcsik, Dániel Láposi, Benjámin Mohácsi
Visuals: Olga Kocsi
Text: Mátyás Sirokai
Narration: Adél Jordán
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.
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