These audiovisual operas by Julie Herndon and Davor Vincze are available as a digital video download (including an HD audio). The videos were directed by Heinrich Horwitz and performed by the Decoder Ensemble: Leopold Hurt, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro, and Sebastian Berweck, with soloists Jessica Aszodi and Nina Guo. They were curated by the artistic director and composer Margareta Ferek Petrić for the Zagreb Music Biennale, with video by Heinrich Horwitz (director), Lara Rodriguez Cruz, and Jule Katinka Cramer and audio recorded by Anne Taegert and Carlo Grippa, mastered by Christopher Botta.
Julie Herndon and Davor Vincze San Francisco, California
Composers Julie Herndon & Davor Vincze collaborate with Decoder Ensemble on two video operas. Herndon is a composer,
performer, & sound artist exploring the body’s relationship to sound using tools like musical instruments and personal technologies.
Vincze focuses on meta-reality and musical narrative that is implicitly stated or explicitly concealed using his compositional method ‘microllage.’
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