Borderline Festival 2018 | 2nd Day
Μedea Electronique | Echo and Narcissus
Dates
Tickets
Venue
Time & Date
Information
Tickets
Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 23 MAR 2018, 17:00
General presale: from 28 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 7 €
Reduced, Onassis Stegi's Friends, Groups 5+ people, Unemployed, People with disabilities & Companions: 5 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Duration
60 minutes
Introduction
From the myth of Echo and Narcissus, which first outlined the concept of media, to the digital 21st century. Undertaking the roles of composer and librettist and inspired by these two mythological figures, live coding presents a digital opera addressing contemporary themes.
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Ovid's tale of Narcissus, who is transfixed by his own reflection, and Echo, who is condemned to wander disembodied through eternity, is staged by Medea Electronique using live coding and code poetry: the code is written in real time and generates the opera's sound as well as its libretto. Transcribing the properties of opera into its digital equivalents, the libretto is sung by live performers.
The libretto of “Echo and Narcissus” is displayed with surtitles in English as the programming language python supports only English words.
