TEUFELSBERG SPECTRAL CHORAL

Antenna

Choir recording on a cold war antenna dome, Berlin - Teufelsberg (the Devil´s Moutain).

This project uses the profoundly evocative mental landscape emanating from this site as a trigger for a musical/coral composition, were the relation of sound with its immediate phantom, the acoustics of the space, are the core element.

On the antenna crypt/axis/cave/totem a cosmological strategy will be set in the sense of creating a symbolic narrative for the unfolding of the sonic movements,  contours and a dynamic direction through time & space, using formal elements of silence, texture and ecstatic sound in a ritualization of this dome spherical space.

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Orientated by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha it combines a specific work with voices and informal coral ensembles, with an interest on the highly evocative proprieties of collective chanting, materializing the physical evocation of time.  

Recordings of June 2010 with a choir of:

• Catarina Miranda
• Mariana Caló
• Francisco Queimadela
• Pedro Serrano
• Lorenzo Sandoval
• Isabelle Philippe
• Chiara
• Alex
• Nathan Thomas

This project is produced by Piso and Soopa collectives, thanks to Projekt Teufelsberg (Ulduz, Shalmon and Mohamed).

Also thanks to: Luís Mendonça, Sara Pereira, João Alves, André Wakko and Wolfgang.