MPedokles
About the sound design
In the concept of MPDokles the ancient greek philosopher Empedocles appears to be a complete juvenile idealist and phantast that, via his artificial bulky language seems to be falling out of the real wold
Referring to Comming-of-age-films a young actress plays all three roles of the third sketch of Hölderlin’s piece „Empedokles“ in the real surrounding of the Toni-Areal of the ZhdK Zürich. The audience, acoustically completely separated from the scenery, watched the piece through a great 16:9 window. They should watch through the cinematic setup the story of defiant teenager, that found him respectively herself in a completely strange and unknown environment fighting with his ideals.
The sound design follows the cinematic setup in
a 7.1 surround PA-system. The soundscape
around the Toni-Arreal is miked with a surround-microphone setup and transferred to the PA-system in the house where it is mixed with pre-produced soundscapes of different environments and live produced sound designes.
