In “Osmosis” the internet and bi-directional streaming technologies form a membrane between two physical concert spaces between which performers interact. The two spaces involved are radically different from each other, the audience can visit both and search of what gets through the membrane – and what doesn’t.
OSMOSIS was a concert event, highlighting how telematically connected spaces always confront each other asymmetrically. Their telematic connection is part of a continuous space in which information is fragmented and selectively reassembled. Like the biochemical process of osmosis in which molecules diffuse across a cell membrane from one level of concentration to another, in telematic connections certain elements such as sound, physicality, movement, and empathy are diffused across spaces, each being transmitted differently and thus perceived differently at their respective destinations.
Special attention was paid to the decomposition of visual objects and perspective across two separate stages. By arranging two telematically connected spaces within the campus building of the Zurich University of the Arts, the project created a possibility for the audience to visit both sides of the telematic arrangement in two consecutive performances—one side per performance—and therefore perceive the asymmetry between the two “spaces.”
Patrick Müller, overall direction, concept
Matthias Ziegler, concept, music, flute
Joel De Giovanni, image, sound cubes, staging
Benjamin Burger, staging, direction
Johannes Schütt, audio engineering, streaming
Martin Fröhlich, motion capture, projection mapping, streaming
Hannah Walter, sound cubes
Roman Haefeli, IT, streaming
Patrycja Pakiela, live mix
Oliver Sahli, virtual platform
Dominique Girod, contrabass
Sylwia Zytynska, percussion
