„pan dora“ is based on Bernhard Weiss’ music for the butoh-performance „PanD’orA - Shades of Hope“ by DaniMayu and her Company MayuKan. Sounds and fragments of the original soundtrack are condensed into an independent track. „pan dora“ consists exclusively of partially heavily processed recordings of acoustic instruments (gongs, kamalen goni, windchimes, cymbals and tibetan singing bowls) and field recordings.

The performance was to have taken place in Vienna in early November 2020, but had to be cancelled and postponed indefinitely due to a lockdown.

About the piece „PanD’orA - Shades of Hope“:

After 20 years of being a butoh performer and choreographer, DaniMayu revived her Company MayuKan in order to create her new piece „PanD'orA - Shades of Hope“. In her new production Dani Mayu is honouring her body of work by incorporating quotes from over 30 pieces of hers.

Starting from Pandora's Box, the members of the Company show different aspects of hope in the tension between the general positive connotation of today and in the sense of Friedrich Nietzsche, who in „Human, All too Human“ describes hope as the worst of all evils.

MayuKan:
Concept / Choreography / Costumes & Stage: DaniMayu
Dance: DaniMayu, Jule, Michaela Mab, Runa Hatariy, Stephanie Tietz, Theresa Grießenberger

butoh-danimayu.com

Music played, recorded, produced and mixed at home by Bernhard Weiss, 2020
Fieldrecordings recorded at various places in Portugal and Switzerland by Bernhard Weiss, 2011

Pan Dora

This track was created for the SEQUENCE7 compilation. You can download it here:
www.futuresequence.com/sequence7/

Varanasi (Sequence7 compilation)

Dasylirion is a track taken from the EP "but oh". You can buy it here: http://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/but-oh

Dasylirion

Hoya is a track taken from the EP "but oh". You can buy it here: http://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/but-oh

Hoya

Adlumina is a track taken from the EP "but oh". You can buy it here: http://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/but-oh

Adlumina

part of the album "ta vira"
http://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/ta-vira

feat. Maria Grünbaum (clarinet)

part of the album "ta vira"
https://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/ta-vira

feat. Maria Grünbaum (vocals)

They

part of the album "ta vira"
https://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/ta-vira

Skin

Cordion is a Duo-Project of Ramona Kasheer and Bernhard Weiss. The track "Tag und Traum" is taken from their EP "still" (2009).

Cordion - Tag und Traum

Ihn Sides

part of the album "ta vira"
bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/ta-vira

Ideas

Fafner (alternate mix)

Norma (for Estoal Dance Company)

Part of the compilation "Ambient selection part I" by the Argentinian label Temiong. 

You can download the track here: https://temiongrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-selection-part-i

Please support the participating artists by paying for the music!

Ambient Selection Part I

Train du Nord

This track is created entirely with the sound of a 12 stringed Kamel-Ngoni from Westafrica.

Ngoni

Bernhard Weiss is a composer/producer, percussionist and multiinstrumentalist from Vienna/Austria. 

Besides his work as a percussionist in numerous bandprojects he creates music for contemporary dance performances, butoh performances and theaterprojects featuring all over the planet.

Collaborations include Kanazawa Butoh Kan, Mayu Kan, Matthew Smith, Ramona Kasheer, Maria Grünbaum, rollingpoint, Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki, Brigitte Deutsch, Lilian Fritz, Christina Gaismeier, Lore Heuermann, Katie Duck, National Theatre Rijeka, Salon Flux, Studio Dance Company Zagreb and many others…

His releases include two albums and one EP:
re member (2013)
ta vira (2014)
but oh (2014)
You can purchase it here: https://bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/

As a DJ he founded the platform Globelastica, where „adventurous“ music from all over the world is presented: www.mixcloud.com/globelastica

Bernhard Weiss

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