Felix Kindermann
Choir Piece

In staging The Ghent Singers as a moving sculpture, Felix Kindermann’s Choir Piece questions our relationship with the term togetherness, mirroring today’s Zeitgeist along with its societal distortions. Through rearrangement, fragmentation, and techniques of acoustic distortion, the work creates a feeling of alienation, destabilizing the interrelated appearance and effect of the choir as a familiar cultural asset, blurring the lines which are dissolved through the play with essential opposites like harmony and disharmony, the individual and the collective.

Choir Piece’s commissioned score, Composition for Separated Musicians by American composer Natalie Dietterich, applies Kindermann’s far reaching intervention on the coherent structure of the ensemble, such that its harmony remains in tact. Using Kindermann’s text, her composition allows for a permanent spatial modulation of the singers, whilst staying connected via acoustic set pieces, despite their actual spatial modulation. As the sound of the voices fills the volume of the museum, German choreographer Florian Fischer translates the themes of separation and connection into movements that play out over the entire exhibition space.

• Concept and text: Felix Kindermann
  
• Composer: Natalie Dietterich
  
• Choreographer: Florian Fischer
  
• Choir: Ghent Singers
  
• Sopranos: Juliette Allen, Marion Bouwens, Liza Dedapper, Morgan Heyse
  
• Altos: Jolien De Gendt, Sonia Sheridan Jacquelin, Jonathan De Ceuster, Paúl Sojo
  
• Tenors: Geoffrey Degives, Guillaume Huybrechts, Hendrik Mispelon, Ivan Yohan
  
• Basses: Andrés Soler Castano, Wouter Vande Ginste, Jan Moeyaert, Mark Trigg
• Projectsponsors: Mark & Svenja Lüdemann