Vincent Crowly, Constance Hauman, David Moss, Georg Nigl, Andrew Watts, Jodi Melnick, Grayson Milwood, Lucas Rössner, Rodolfo Seas-Araya, Gavin Webber, Kai Wessel
Elfriede Jelinek
Klangforum Wien
Johannes Kalitzke

Lost Highway is a composition that decidedly lives from the transformation of physical spaces, diverse inner and outer spaces, into sound spaces. In performance, this is achieved through various, three-dimensional sound projections, which surround the audience with playing, live-electronics, and virtual acoustics, resulting in different experiential relationships from within and without, close by, and from a distance. The illustrations of these sound spaces and notes naturally are only an attempt to approach the experience in the theater. Fortunately, the possibilities of surround-techniques have come to our aid, which envelop the listener with alternating, overlaying sound-strata. Thus, the present production was intended to be mixed for 5.1 surround. (Olga Neuwirth)