FULL LENGTH: 90'

Evening length music-theatre set in an absurd call centre.

The documented performance took place at Teater Refleksion, Aarhus 04.02.2024 (the final show in the premiere run)

About the performance: At the data collection agency ‘Re-sounding Success’, call centre workers equipped with instruments sit behind their computer screens, waiting (played by Andreas Borregaard and Anna Sakham Jalving). While they wait to be transferred, the hold-music of each company on their call-list is played by a live house band that can only be glimpsed as silhouettes behind an illuminated screen. (hold-music trio: Kirstine Elise Pedersen, Hsiao Tung Yuan and Joss Smith). Operating at the boundaries of new music, experimental theatre involving audience participation, and interactive installation art, the project’s central themes land on the unsettling musicality buried in repetitive labour, cold-calling and workplace technology; the psychological effects of hold-music; and existential questions surrounding time, purpose and agency.

INSTRUMENTATION:

Accordion doubling voice

Violin doubling voice

Clarinet in Bb doubling tin whistle in C, melodica and voice

Cello doubling classical guitar and voice

Percussion doubling keyboards and voice

​Audience participation

Pre-event participatory installation (in a foyer space or similar)

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Live electronics, visuals and light run in Logic Pro X, Max 8 and QLab