Simon Bahr

The stage setup of “…And Sugar” consists of a screen with a black and white video projection and a piano, resembling early day silent movies. However, in certain respects it is transferred to the present: the automated piano plays itself and the black and white surface of the video is digitally reinterpreted by means of a binary rasterisation and transformation.

Recorded at Neue Aula, Folkwang Uni, Essen, on 06.07.2021.

audio, 4-channel / ambisonics

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the sonic genetic manipulation of a cinematic Hollywood sample: In a recursive process, children and grandchildren with increasingly complex strands of DNA derive themselves from its extended gene pool and are lost one by one to the anarchy of white noise.