Lillevan and Morton Subotnick have been performing live together during 2010-2011
Premiere August-2010 in Bregenz, (during staging of Subotnick’s opera “Jacob’s Room” at Bregenzer Festspiele, Austria – see below)
Recent shows at:
Lincoln Centre, New York (Unsound Festival)
Club Transmediale, Berlin (grande opening ceremony)
Radar Festival, Mexico City
Unsound Krakow, Poland
Museum of Modern Art, Liechtenstein
Fluc, Vienna
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
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Clip of Lillevan + Morton Subotnick at Bregenzer Festspiele 2010
Interesting interview in Berlin’s De-Bug
www.mortonsubotnick.com
Morton Subotnick @ wikipedia
Fluc, Vienna
Set-up in Liechtenstein
Club Transmediale, Berlin
Lincoln Centre, New York
Lillevan and Morton Subotnick met during collaboration on Subtnick’s opera: “Jacob’s Room” a chamber opera for four soloists, four cellos, keyboards and electronics by Morton Subotnick
Co-production with soniq performing arts, Berlin, with funding from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds in association with the European Arts Centre in Hellerau
Jacob is a survivor – and yet he cannot live because he is repressing the memories of an awful experience in his childhood. A woman appears and takes Jacob on a journey through his own mind, a journey into Jacob’s Room. Here he must confront the horror of those extreme emotions that accompany his experience of a holocaust. Jacob remembers; he remembers the cries of his mother, who died for her son; he remembers his grandfather’s cries of lament and his anger: anger at an unjust god, anger at all of mankind.
Morton Subotnick’s opera Jacob’s Room is like a prayer, like an appeal for safe conduct, a collective cry for help. The hypnotic loops of Subotnick’s music transport the audience to a musical prayer room, a place between dream and reality, a place of associations in which sounds, memories and images blend together.
Morton Subotnick’s career as a composer has been subject to two major influences: his passion for combining music with other media, and his experimentation with electronic music. His new opera Jacob’s Room has been developed in close collaboration with the production team and is the result of a common artistic conception.
Musical director: Ari Benjamin Meyers
Production, space and costumes: Mirella Weingarten
Moving imagery: Lillevan
With: Katharina von Bülow, Ruth Rosenfeld, Florian Just and Tom Sol