Swiss band Compagnie Drift was at Stanica in 2005 with their “theatre concert” called Sound Machine. An original performance, having received several awards, and travelled around the whole world – captured us as well.

Drift’s new project is music, it’s movement and scientific tests. 
It is also: poetic, cynical, electronic, pneumatic, cybernetic, dramatic, chaotic/ romantic and with a trace of hysteria.

After the theatrical concert “sound machine” that – in the meantime – has been performed with great success throughout the world and – in the process – has gathered the audiences’ hearts as well as numerous prizes, compagnie drift has created a production in which music is again at the focal point.

The musicians, performers, dancers, inventors, craftsmen and long-term compagnie drift collaborators, François Gendre, Massimo Bertinelli und Peter Schelling, have turned their own world on its head and have created another theatrical concert… but one completely lacking theatre!

And almost lacking dance. And in the process, cross our hearts, they won’t sound anything out, investigate anything, research anything and in any way clarify any circumstances that relate to anything, not even to their representation.

And their piece will not just be a string of references to all sorts of things and won’t just be comprehensible in the context of something else.

They make music more than anything, with the massive support of inventions and computer industry products that they handle and manipulate in such a way as to ensure that any possible social utility is lost. They invent a music in which everything will be “instrumentalized”: they themselves as well as the machines they create. Thus a dramaturgy is produced with the goal of subsuming itself under the logic, procedure and rhythms of directives that gain a life of their own.

Cause and effect no longer have a perceivable connection.

In parallel, totally flipped-out objects of daily life offer the necessary anchor to technoid musical fantasies while they also try to make the emotional contents visible.

Idea, Music Composition: François Gendre, Massimo Bertinelli
By And With: Massimo Bertinelli, François Gendre, Béatrice Jaccard, Peter Schelling
Production Management: Beatrice Rossi
Special Thanks To: Thomas Vontobel

The Slovak Tour:
5. and 6. 11. Štúdio 12, Bratislava
7. 11. Divadlo Andreja Bagara, Nitra
9. and 10. 11. Stanica Žilina-Záriečie
12. 11. Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice

www.drift.ch

Without language barrier.

Admission: 4,00 / 2,50 € (adults / students)
Ticket reservations: rezervacie@stanica.sk, 041 – 56 23 564