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Broken Ghost Consort at Sophienkirche
Courtesy of Georg Wissel | Posted on February 13, 2023
When
Fri, March 17, 2023
20:00
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Matthew Goodheart's Broken Ghost Consort combines live performance with immersive electroacoustic sound environments, performing works that inhabit a hybrid world of composition, free improvisation and sound installation. The ensemble is based on the use of "reembodied sound" techniques, in which gongs, cymbals and other resonant instruments are activated by small transducers attached to their surface and controlled by computer so that they sound autonomously. Alongside these 'ghost instruments', live performers interact with written, structured and spontaneously improvised material in an evolving series of works that explore the nature of sound, performance, materiality and space....