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Ensemble KNM Berlin's Stereoscope: Seeking the Unseeable in Loneliness

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Inspired by the short stories published in 1972 by Argentine-Italian writer Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Ensemble KNM Berlin's Stereoscope carves out solitary individuals in Wilcock's book. These individuals become ones playing musical instruments on their own, isolated but not always is the way it seems. While the individuals are mostly portrayed as lonely ones on the edge of the world, audiences are invited in the Stereoscope for seeking more unexpected dimensions on loneliness during the performance. An adventurous journey unfolds as it allures audiences into the stage. Positively the loneliness can be abundant through interaction during the performance. Through walking around the stage, audiences set out seeking loneliness in quirky ways. Stereoscope  came to the question emerged between seeing and listening during the performance. As audiences did not always see the musicians playing their instruments, they instead paid much attention to the sound-making. Various sounds emer

Danger Receiver

Danger, a word she would call, emerged itself from the very ferocious animal of his mind. Much of his skin became tight with wrinkles, displayed in a way of burning despair. A creature marked a rare disposition to haunt her. Though his mind seemed not to be a whole that kept pestering her for unfolding his unique expression, it was still a kind of needle that penetrated into the translucent danger. Sometimes it became observing while dangled from his way of talk. Other times she could feel that his mouth appeared to be bulged in a dark side of swift moment and almost split in pieces. He, as she recognized, was a soundless bomb that brought disaster for her world. She might question what drew the very line of human and beast. Was it any difference between them? She pondered the question alone, finding out that the danger receiver could be anyone. And she turned herself away saying nothing of him anymore.