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Ars Electronica 2002
Sintflut
Detlef Heusinger/A
The Flood, metaphor for apocalypse and primal myth not only in Western culture, is a theme with great contemporary relevance. Sintflut (flood) is a composition for orchestra and computer, visually staged as a video triptych. Based on the apocryphal book “Henoch,” the project is a blend of Akkadian, Hellenistic and Yahwist flood legends. Henoch, God’s scribe, antediluvian patriarch and ancestor of Noah, makes his way on a dream-journey during which mythological figures and chimeras appear to him and bear witness to human conceit. Obviously, we already find ourselves in the aftermath of a global catastrophe…
Source: Pascal Maresch
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