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 …

Slowakisches Philharmonisches Orchester / Conductor: Manfred Mayrhofer
Music: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and experimental studio of the SWR’s Heinrich Strobel Foundation, Freiburg
A cooperation of: Ars Electronica and Brucknerhaus

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