MURMURATION
SHANGHAI 2016
For the opening of Shanghai Interactive Theatre Festival (SHIFT) DASDUR’s Christian Steinhäuser and Electric Universe’s Boris Blenn composed a 60-minute trans-electronic concert set in an ever-changing multimedia live sculpture produced by phase7 performing.arts under the direction of the show’s creator Sven Sören Beyer. The concert features live musicians, traditional Chinese instruments, local children and youth choirs and dancers, all embedded in the sculpture and accompanied by elaborate light and video art. 35 unmanned quadrocopters/drones are the protagonists of the open-air performance of MURMURATION. The quadrocopters dance as a swarm of bright lights scattered across the sky, as if by magic drawing the audience into an artistic universe which excites all the senses.
Location: Auto Expo Park, Boyuan Road No. 7565, Anting, Shanghai, China
Credits
| Artistic director / Show by | Sven Sören Beyer |
| Composition | Christian Steinhäuser, Boris Blenn |
| Musicians phase7 | Christian Steinhäuser, Boris Blenn, Martin Rosengarten, Marc Eisenschink, Markus Hauke |
| Musicians Silk & Bamboo | Erhu: Shilin Zhang, Dizi: Hongyuan Zhang, Pipa: Zhongxiang Tang, Jing Shi |
| Cello | Fang Huang |
| Children’s Choir | Little Star Choir, Conductor – Jin Yang |
| Youth Choir | Shanghai University Choir, Conductor – Jiayu Li |
| Light Design | Bjoern Hermann |
| Video Art | Hajo Rehm, Asaf Etiel |
| Interactive Art | Frieder Weiss, Matthias Härtig |
| VJ | Safy (VJ Sniper) |
| Choreography | Lydia Klement |
| Dancers | Jun Dong, Meng Chen, Jun Hua, Jing Liang, Ran Yi, Qianmeng Zhao, Duo Duo, Lina Hu |
| Costume | Pedro Richter |
| Project Manager | Jana Posth |
| Project Assistance | Marieke Janßen |
| Music Producer | Jason Zwolinski |
| Local Music Supervisors | Thom Guo, Michael Wang |
| Festival Director | Frank Chen Qiang |
| Quadrocopters | CollMot Robotics, Budapest |
| Concept | Sven Sören Beyer, Christiane Neudecker |
| photos by | Johannes von Jena |