Der Sprung – Beschreibung einer Oper

Episodes

1. 8

   Prolog

   Jetzt würde sie es schaffen The computer also performed the frequency analysis on three short stretches of noise (underlying the phone call) which were turned into parts with radio-play character: the Prolog, the Intermezzo and the Epilog. The algorithm–designed to

   Jan 2, 2013
2. 1

   1. Akt – 1. Szene

   Ich kannte sie, Herr Kollege The first scene of the first act features a fictitious dialog between the two professors that were shut by the philosophy student, one of them is deadly wounded – the other one will survive. The

   Jan 2, 2013
3. 1

   1. Akt – 2. Szene

   Wir hatten immer ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihr The second scene of the first act gives an account of the protagonist’s behaviour from the perspective of her neighbors. The beginning statement „we always had a good realtionship with her“ sung

   Jan 2, 2013
4. 1

   1. Akt – 3. Szene

   Heute habe ich beschlossen Another fascinating technology introduced to music research, theory and composition is neural network simulation. Originally invented in the 1940s to mimic the behavior of nerve cells, it was first abandoned in favor of Artificial Intelligence and

   Jan 2, 2013
5. 1

   1. Akt – 4. Szene

   Die Waffe soll eine aus dem Mittelalter sein The fourth scene (a solo with occasional entrances of the other voices) consists of three crescendos. The first crescendo is a Renaissance pastiche with a sudden twist into the contemporary idiom; the

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6. 3

   Intermezzo

   Jetzt ist der Scheitelpunkt endlich erreicht Intermezzo is scored for keyboard, wired (or synthetic) choir, narrator and electronics (the choir consisting of 8 singers can be replaced by sampled voices). ‘Wired’ refers to the interaction between the computer and the

   Jan 2, 2013
7. 2

   2. Akt – 1. Szene

   Die Zuschauer wollten eine Erklärung While the first act deals more with the events leading up to the crime, the second act introduces a new element: the element of contemplation and self-reference. Brasch describes the unsympathetic reaction of fictitious spectators

   Jan 2, 2013
8. 2

   2. Akt – 2. Szene

   Sie habe mich schon früher gekannt The aim of this scene was to conjure up images of a nostalgic Jewish stedtl life with music alluding to Klezmer and east-European folklore, which as the scene unfolds, is contrasted by an obsessive

   Jan 2, 2013