Heinrich tanzt 2016 - Fremde Nähe
Percussion recorded with Dine Doneff aka Kostas Theodorou

http://mathis-nitschke.com/wp/heinrich-tanzt-2016/

Fremde Nähe - with Dine Doneff

Sounds for my text "Now Listen!" on Medium.com

05 Starkes Wellenrauschen

04 Sanftes Wellenrauschen

02 Vogelzwitschern Wald

01 Knacken Im Wald

Worthless. Placeless. Katharina has lost everything: the lover, the job, the apartment. In her fight against oblivion she develops extreme, hateful energies. The bustle on Münchner Freiheit serves as a stage for a fictional character who is about to exceed the normative limits of social behavior once and for all. 

A travel agency – a place of longing for faraway places – is transformed through this music-theatrical performance into a zone with a sharp focus on the here and now. Using headphones the audience slips into Katharina’s head and occupies the aural perspective of the protagonist outside of the square. At the same time, as an object in the shop window, the audience members become part of the installation themselves. 

Musically, KATHARINA takes aspects from Henry Purcell’s opera ‘Dido & Aeneas’ and remixes them with elements from Drum’n’Bass and a harpsichord which always accompanies the development of the character: instead of dying of a broken heart like Purcell’s Dido, Katharina is transformed here into a fury.
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released December 21, 2018 
opera installation in public space by Mathis Nitschke 
Libretto: Thomas Jonigk, Performer: Martina Koppelstetter, 
Harpsichord: Goska Isphording 

September 14-17, 2016 (10 performances) @ DER Reisebüro, Münchner Freiheit 6

KATHARINA

For my composition and production of the music for a documentary film I recorded the soloists Roman Bunka on the oud, Marine-Amélie Lenoir on the oboe, Maria Reiter on the accordion and Sachiko Hara on the piano. Listen to a few excerpts here:

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