Silence of the Mermaids
Michał PepolSinging is the essential strength of mermaids, and working under their spell is a perverse dream of many a musician. I would also like to have this power of a mermaid and always be able to seduce an audience. But this would require an unconditioned opening into the dark side of my subconscious. A meeting with a mermaid is a meeting with myself, one most sensitive and delicate, and at the same time a self-censored fraction of my hidden self. So let this be a concert-liberation from conventions, genres, habits and expectations. Let this be a concert-hybrid, just like a mermaid is. Let's look the mermaid in the eye and listen to her. While listening to her, let's listen to ourselves. Let's get seduced by the polyphony of the human voice, cellos, and the inhabitants of the ocean. – Michał Pepol
PROGRAM
Kaija Saariaho Spins and Spells (1997)
Franz Kafka Milczenie syren
Tomasz Sikorski Milczenie syren (1986/87)
Jimi Hendrix (arr. M. Pepol) 1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
Franz Schubert/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (arr. M. Pepol) Erlkönig
Philip Glass Orbit (2013)
Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett (arr. M. Pepol) Song to the Siren
SCRIPT, PROGRAM Michał Pepol
COSTUMES Monika Kaleta
VOICE Magdalena Cielecka
CELLOS, PIANO Michał Pepol, Whales
SOUND DESING Robert Migas
LIGHTING DESIGN Patryk Adamski
PROJECT INSPIRED BY THE EXHIBITION SYRENA HERBEM TWYM ZWODNICZA AND COMMISSIONED BY THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW
PARTNER Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej
See also
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Cinema of Moral Anxiety
Theater
10–12.05Cinema of Moral Anxiety
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Winter Light
Theater
25–27.05Winter Light
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Metamorphosis
Theater
31.05–02.06Metamorphosis
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Silenzio!
Theater / Dance
28–30.06Silenzio!