An ensemble of human voices sings what can be heard inside a car. The engine rumbles and hums. The electronics buzz. The turn signal clicks. Perhaps a drive through the neighborhood. Are we in a memory? Then the car speeds up, the interior opens up, crashes, crumbles, and flies apart. What’s left is acoustic dust and a funeral song.

A Funeral Song for the Car is an open artistic inquiry into how we might grieve for the car, the car as something into which we have inscribed our bodies, something deeply intertwined with our lives – in our belief in progress through technology, in industries, workplaces, daily rhythms, urban architectures, and landscapes.

The song examines the hybrid of car and human, and its hybrid singing between lament and machine sound. Sometimes light and almost absurd. Sometimes somewhat eerie and oppressive. The song moves through the space. The choir is a machine that disassembles itself, then reassembles, reforming in a mixture of the ancient and the future.

Chorus Voices – Agustin Genoud, Barnabas Herrmann, Katarina Rasinski, Christian Kesten, Walburga Walde, Ute Wassermann
Set Design Collaboration: Laura Immler
Mixing Collaboration: Lefteris Krysalis
Thanks to Nikos Arvanitis, Carola Bauckholt, Felix Deufel, Joyce Moore, Heinrich Moormann, Doris Moormann-Goltz, Henriette Theurich, TWIKX Theaterwerkstatt, Angelika Waniek, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Joyson Safety Systems