Dancers: Allegories of Water, Rock, Mineral, Metal, Sand, Earth, and Wood; Earthen; Eden.
Musicians: 5 Computers with main- and solo-programs; ritornelli with violoncello, electro-acoustic guitar, sound antennas, and electroacoustic wind instruments (Iyricon).
Place: On Earth. The Erdenklanguhr, the 5 music-computers, and the sound antennas are integrated into a scenery consisting of water, rock, minerals, metal, sand, earth, and wood.
The premiere of ERDENKLANG is the attempt at a new music-theatre: the attempt of a fusion of the visual and acoustic experience of our environment. The visualization of ERDENKLANG begins with dance. The movement releases sounds causing new forms of movement by the dancers which in turn release sounds again. The composed symphony is called in live via various synchronous computers, dance both controls and visualizes the music. Independent improvisations by renowned soloists lead - together with the dance-improvisations - to sound experiences going beyond the symphony. Thus, with the help of aleatoric moments, composition and improvisation blend into an inseparable entity. Erika Gangl, choreographer and director of this First Computer-Acoustic Dance-Theatre presented at ARS ELECTRONICA, has been concerned with similar problems for years.
This first performance with the "Tanztheater 46" which she founded together with the composer Alfred Peschek - is a premiere combining her dance-theatrical images with the computer-acoustics of the music-computer team from the "Electronic Forester's House".
