Anaesthesia 

Arturo Fuentes
Daniel Gloger, Sarah Maria Sun, Ensemble Modern

Music theater (2019-2020)
Original idea: Arturo Fuentes
Duration: 1 hr.

The Control Room
Work inspired in the Francis Ford Coppola film "The conversation" (1974)

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Introduction     
We're in 2029. Ten years ago a woman from north scotland has been detected with the "happiness gen". 


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This music theatre explores the central personage (Sara-Maria Sun) within its multiple psychological angles, like if her voices where summed up in order to construct one only woman. Some echoes can be heard with the voices and instruments of Susanne Fröhlich and Eva Reiter. Here's where the music encounters the dramaturgy, when the soprano explores multiple vocal techniques in order to achieve moments that unify the voice whitin the instruments and the sound effects (like communications analogue signals and amplified sound objects).  

We find the voice doubled by the electronics, a sort of echo that gives lightness and confusion to the real voice. We hear the instruments mixed up with the mashed phonetics of the voice: sometimes we hear a sigh, sometimes a hole phrase. We don't understand completely what it has been said, but we have an approximation to the psychological source of the personage. We remain with a sensation, a sound, a metaphor. The script attaches to the idea of "deconstruction" of the source : we remain the audio recording of our lives.  


Scenery and lighting
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Developed by Jim Clayburgh, the scenery and light design attaches to the idea of contrasts between the "hidden space" (The Control Room) and "private space". A first proposal of a scaffolding structure has been figured out in order to divide those spaces. The main idea of this metallic structure is to refer to the scenography as a cage in which all of us are captured by videos and audio recordings. It is also a metaphor of a house with several layers (our world, our cities) in which all we live.

Go-pros cameras, video projections in small monitor screens and small speakers are planned to be installed in this structure. 

The scaffolding structure is planned to be modulable depending on the dimensions of the theatre. Front: meters 4.40, 6.80 or 8.80. High: 4.00 or 6.00. Deep 5.00 only.

"This is a world of hidden mics and two way mirrors, a world where nothing is private", can be heard on the movie trailer of Coppola's work, The Control Room aims to explore this world. 

​Arturo Fuentes

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Scenery proposal

Some aesthetic ideas searched on the film/video