A Guide to Self-Synthesis

In the organizer's words:

With its new performance, Opera Lab Berlin takes the pioneers of electronic music Wendy Carlos, SOPHIE, Pauline Oliveros and Éliane Radigue as its role models and celebrates the overcoming of mechanical-acoustic sound production beyond heteronormative boundaries.

Together with trans singer-songwriter Marlene Bellissimo, known from "The Voice of Germany", Opera Lab Berlin explores the potential of electronics in defining its own parameters in "A Guide to Self-Synthesis". Her transformative, transgressive power and multiple frequencies of self-expression become the focus of the performance, for which composer Evan Gardner creates a pluralistic combination of notated but non-restrictive sound fields. The US-American university lecturer and activist Susan Stryker, one of the pioneering academics in the field of (trans)gender studies, is expected on stage as a special guest with her own contribution.

What possibilities does synthetic sound production offer? What do queer harmonies and trans oscillators sound like? Singing and dancing, music from the synthesizer, motion-tracking technology, composition and choreography will become a new, utopian and directly emancipatory celebration of electronic music based on the principle of Mauricio Kagel's "instrumental theater".

"One of the most experimental and refreshing music theater groups in the capital's independent scene" (Siegessäule)