Orpheus, by Christof Littmann

Orpheus

by Christof Littmann

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1.	Orpheus' Theme 11:00	info	buy track
2.	The Elevator 04:47	info	buy track
3.	Orpheus' Theme 2 07:39	info	buy track
4.	A Satyr Chase 03:24	info	buy track
5.	To Tame a God 05:48	info	buy track
6.	Foyer 04:20	info	buy track
7.	The Descendant Part 1 07:01	info	buy track
8.	The Descendant Part 2 07:43	info	buy track
9.	Oglu 03:35	info	buy track
10.	Turn of D. 03:16	info	buy track

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In this collaboration between COMMEDIA FUTURA Theater in der Eisfabrik and Landerer & Company from 2013, the Orpheus story is retold as a multimedia experience.
As a result, the sound track is forgotten and replaced by a sound reduced to its bass frequencies that metamorphoses almost imperceptibly, yet still heard, into an inferno of sound which abruptly stops only to reform. Industrial sounds rain down, a grappling rhythm, a soothing piano theme, all accompanied by dancers in slow motion. A kaleidoscope of sounds from and for the underworld produced as a backdrop.

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released December 29, 2013

Original music from „Orpheus Heartbeats“
composed by Christof Littmann
Directors: Maura Morales, Felix Landerer, Wolfgang A. Piontek
10 tracks, duration: 58:35

Coverphoto: Ralf Mohr

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klangklang Hanover, Germany

Christof Littmann lives and works in Hannover, Germany. Besides music for film and TV, he wrote music for more than 60 theatre-, and dance pieces by now.
Christof researches the relation between noise and music: „Let´s make us sensitive again for the beauty of sound and the sometimes ugliness of so called music. ... more

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