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Orchestrascope

multimedia av performance for kids

We go back in time to the beginning of the rich history of film. The discovery of the moving image appealed to the imagination and the possibility of special effects gave a boost to creative ideas. One thing that was still a challenge, however, was to provide the films with sound. Therefore a musician or orchestra accompanied the performances live, a foley artist mimicked the sounds in the film, and sometimes an actor spoke the lyrics.

For ORCHESTRASCOPE, video artist Erato Tzavara and composer/musician Filipe Raposo chose a series of films from the early cinema, dusted them off and edited them for this performance. Filipe provides them with new music and gets behind the piano himself. Surrounded by an orchestra and assisted by foley artist Rémi Decker, he breathes new life into these old films.

To make the show complete, the audience, too, gets a role in this extraordinary circus of image and sound. In this new production Zonzo Compagnie once again experiments with sound and music and the possibilities of involving the audience in a playful dialogue.

For Orchestrascope, we created with Ed Devane a custom interactive controller with large buttons, which triggers short clips and also manipulates the orchestra on stage. Children are invited to the stage to play with the Orchestrascope controller, which manipulates light, video and a whole orchestra. 

Credits: 

Composition – Filipe Raposo
Video design – Erato Tzavara 
Stage directing & script – Purni Morell
Light design – Manuel Abrantes & Ana Catarina Carocinho Carvalho 
Technical design – Arthur De Vuyst

Performance
Filipe Raposo (piano)
Rémi Decker (foley artist)
With – Local Orchestra (tbc)

Photos by Maria Silva

A production by Zonzo Compagnie in coproduction with Fabrica das Artes (Centro Cultural de Belém) and Opéra de Rouen Normandie. With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Thanks to Ed Devane.

Premiered at

Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal

Date

November 2022

Currently on tour