RainZonanceS: Rainzonances2

This second project by RainZonanceS took place at the old Satiriko Theatre, former ‘Adelfi Varnakidi’ cinema, a building that was scheduled to be demolished in the near future following the installation. The audience is invited to experience a last show in this full-of-energy space; to move around the building and use it in a different way, to watch and listen to the voices and shadows of the past. ‘Monologue, film, dialogue, singing, anger, black and white, coloured, tragedy, comedy, laughter, sigh, weep, surprise, sit, stand, brake, eat, pop corn, foyer, ticket, soundtrack, playback, curtain, stage, scene, script, rehearsal’…gestures, moods and actions absorbed by the walls of the building and by the people who spent time in it. When squeezed, a sponge full of multi-colour paints, releases a fusion of colour and texture. The element of time alters the quality of this amalgam even more, adding noise, grain and perhaps a sort of emotion. This site-specific project aims to retrieve the absorbed energy that exists within the walls of the building, to squeeze the sponge of past sonic activity, to capture the ghosts and shadows, to resonate with the shaped echoes, and portray it in a somewhat abstract manner.

Some of the methods/techniques/material used for the realisation of this portrait are: random procedures, audiovisual material from past selected plays at the theatre, generative surround composition, compositions in mono format presented as sound installations, domestic lighting, projections of found objects, shadow activation of found objects, live electronics, text and utterance performance and improvisation.