Orchestrascope

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Zonzo Compagnie

We go back in time to the beginning of the rich history of film. The discovery of the moving image appealed to the imagination and the possibility of special effects gave a boost to creative ideas. However, providing the films with sound was still a challenge. Therefore, a musician or orchestra accompanied the performances live, a foley artist mimicked the sounds in the film, and sometimes an actor brought the lyrics live.

For the performance Orchestrascope, video artist Erato Tzavara and composer/musician Filipe Raposo chose a series of films from the early cinema era and gave them a fresh look. Filipe provided these films with new music and gets behind the piano himself. Surrounded by an orchestra and assisted by foley artist Rémi Decker, he breathes new life into them.

To make the show complete, the audience, too, gets a role in this extraordinary circus of image and sound. In this production, Zonzo Compagnie once again experiments with sound and music and the possibilities of involving the audience in a playful dialogue.

credits

performance Filipe Raposo (piano), Rémi Decker (foley artist) & local orchestra composition​s​Filipe Raposo​ video design Erato Tzavara​ technical ​c​oordination ​Mike Neyens​ concept & production Zonzo Compagnie coproduction Fabrica das Artes (Centro Cultural de Belém) ​& Opéra de Rouen Normandie​ with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union