3D projection: Achim Stromberger / Photo: Wen Liu
In Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Circular Ruins” a stranger, maybe a magician withdrew himself into the thickness of a forest, into a circular temple that had been devoured by ancient fires. There at the food of a stone tiger or a horse, his sole task was to sleep and dream. He wanted to dream a human; he wanted to dream a human in every detail to eventually expose them to reality.
"In the dream I dreamed, you awoke" has been commissioned by M.A.R.S. Music & Arts ReSound and saw its first performance at the Los Angeles M.A.R.S. Festival, October 5, 2018, The Vortex, featuring Laurel Irene (Soprano), the MARS Collective under the direction of David Harris, and Achim Stromberger of ThisPlay, who designed the 3D hologram projections.
"He understood that modeling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed of was the most difficult task that a man could undertake..." (Borges)
3D projection: Achim Stromberger / Photo: Katharina Rosenberger