© Fotos: TÒ SU, Juha Hansen
MERGE
Collaboration with Sounding Situations for stage and video for a music theatre / 70 minutes | Hamburg, Germany and Bujumbura, Burundi, Rwanda
In the music theatre MERGE, Sounding Situations plays out how the process of recording makes us what we are. Whoever presses the record button has power, framed for themselves and the others. Through repetition, sounds, music, language become part of our identity. In MERGE, the musicians and performers become sound carriers that turn the stage into a sounding negotiation space: Who owns what and who belongs where? Who accepts whom, as something foreign or as their own? MERGE will be performed in Hamburg and Bujumbura: at the same time and vice versa, Burundian and Rwandan artists are looking for something worth recording.