PEAK HUMANITY by General Humanity

Audio mix of General Humanity Lab 4: PEAK HUMANITY, multimedia performance, 6 June 2021, Ballroom, Kraftwerk Bille, Hamburg. Funding of recording & mastering by Musikfonds e.V. / Neustart Kultur.

MASTERING: Sascha Hahnrath with Georgia Ch. Hoppe and Ingrid Hoelzl
© General Humanity 2021

PROJECT PAGE:
https://generalhumanity.org/general-humanity-lab-4-peak-humanity/

VIDEO MATERIALS:
Stream: https://youtu.be/Z9mtwYuY_Lw
Abyss of time scene: https://vimeo.com/545617891
Mutant Mambo scene: https://vimeo.com/599762536

TEAM: Artistic direction, research, libretto: Ingrid Hoelzl; Dramaturgy, text, camera: Remi Marie; Text: Frantz Loriot; Composition: Georgia Ch. Hoppe; Technical direction/recording: Sascha Hahnrath; Scientific advice: Sebastian Dutreuil and Sebastien Klotz.
PERFORMERS: Ingrid Hoelzl (D/F): clarinet, voice, performance; Georgia Ch. Hoppe (D): composition, reeds, mini-elektronics; Emese Kovács (HU): dance, voice, performance; Marcia Lemke-Kern (D): soprano, viola, performance; Frantz Loriot (CH): viola, voice, performance.

Tracklist

1.	Intro	4:32

2.	Apocalypso	10:46

3.	The Abyss of Time	4:51

4.	Extinction Blues	13:22

5.	Mutant Mambo	4:51

6.	Cosmic Fragility	9:44

7.	Outro	1:19

Credits

released December 31, 2021

TEXT QUOTES: < 2. Apocalypso > The Book of Revelation (Am. Standard Version), 8.6-13; 9.1-9 < 4. Extinction Blues > Jairus Grove, “A Recently Apocalyptic Tone in Everything: The Anthropocene or Peak Humanity? (unpublished manuscript) < 7. Cosmic Fragility > Eduard Glissant: Poetique de la Relation; Traite du Tout-Monde; Philosophie de la Relation

MUSIC QUOTES: < 3. Time of the Abyss > Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du monde (1941), III. Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the Birds), for clarinet solo < 4. Extinction Blues > Charles Mingus, Pithecanthropus Erectus (1981, Atlantic) < 6. Cosmic Fragility > Darius Milhaud, La Creation du Monde (1923); Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du monde

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