2 parallel films and a composition for city noises, speech and instrumental sounds.

‘The Audience’ is the 7th and final act of Peter Ablingers opera ‘Cityopera Graz’. A work for two films, two ensembles and two computer-controlled pianos.

The Austrian director Edgar Honetschläger has created a visual side to Ablingers opera and together the two artists have formed a piece, which is founded on the aesthetic parallel action of music and film under the heading of the “utopia of art”. 

‘The Audience’ is a cinematic experiment and a reflection of the global phenomenon "city".
Los Angeles, Tokyo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Brasilia are represented by one single woman: the seduction. Aimlessly she wanders through cityscapes, most of them painted by Honetschläger himself. Frame by frame she dives through an analog world toward a digital surface. The Japanese writer Yoko Tawada has created the words for ’the seduction’, and Peter Ablinger has composed the music.

‘The Audience’ works with a complementary widening of horizons - for the innovative experience of cinema in alliance with the “Klangrede” of an authentically modern music.
The projected performance shows a set-up with two films showed simultaneously on two screens, on and between which, filmed and painted images of real cities can shift and slide back and forth and over each other. The ‘soundtrack’ by Peter Ablinger is compounded by city-sounds, recordings of speaking and instrumental sounds.

In cooperation with Øst for Paradis the cinematic version of ‘The Audience’ is shown.

Before the showing Peter Ablinger will in conversation with Joanna Bailie give an introduction to the film and his artistic practice.

FACTS:
Los Angeles, Tokyo, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Brasilia, Vienna, 2005
Starring: Yukika Kudo, Ali Janka, Rüdiger Andorfer, Viktor Bucher, Christof Cargnelli, Paul Divjak, Thomas Draschan, Thomas Eller, Ernst J. Fuchs, Michael Kienzer, Kurt Kladler, Wilhelm Mahringer, Tom Meyer, Florian Reither
Texts: Yoko Tawada
Music: Peter Ablinger
Camera: Martin Putz
Editor: Kurt Hennrich
Paintings/ Set design/ Camera: Edgar Honetschläger
Line producer: Karin Tonsern
Producer: Edoko Institute Vienna / Com Institute Tokyo
Premiere at the Steirischer Herbst, Graz
Time: 69 minutes