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INVERT<\/h1>\n

Natascha Nikeprelevic \u00a0– Voice & F.X.Randomiz – Elektronics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"frqg\"INVERT realizes audio-visual art in various contexts such as exhibitions, features, film, radio plays, music theater. Their storytelling is vertically instead of linearly. Within a specific field of experimentation, they do not research on the horizontal surface, but immerse their artistic expression in the vertical. They don’t move „forward“, but vertically inward. They analyze the conditions of spaces, texts, forms, rhythms in small parts and dissect and extract their structures down to their essence, basis, soul. They uncover this soul, turning the inside out with a poetic outcome, mixing and flavoring it with particles that were previously foreign, so that new forms, sounds, colors and characteristics emerge from it and it also takes on a new horizontal shape in the microspectrum of the vertical. INVERT creates a hitherto unheard condensate of language without semantics, of noise without effect, of sound without clich\u00e9, of voice beyond singing, of electronics without technoid mechanisms.<\/h5>\n

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><\/strong> New Sound-Art Production: Breath_IN_OUT <\/strong>
\nBroadcasted on Radio WDR 3 Studio Akustische Kunst.<\/h2>\n

Please listen with headphones and while lying down if possible.<\/p>\n

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Cast:
\nNatascha Nikeprelevic – Director, Composition, Vocals & Speaking Voice, Koto Harp, Harmonium, and Ritual Instruments
\nF.X. Randomiz – Electronic Music, Composition & Realization, Synthesizer and Theremin
\nGuest: Goran Stevanovich – Accordion<\/p>\n

Producer: WDR 3 Studio Akustische Kunst
\nTotal Length: 46 minutes<\/p>\n

Breath_IN_OUT is the second part of the INNENSCHAU trilogy conceived by Natascha Nikeprelevic, wich deals with the coronavirus pandemic.
\nBreath_IN_OUT focuses on the themes of breath and fear. The pandemic was characterized by fear. The fear of becoming ill, of not being able to breathe properly, of suffocating. The fear of dying. The fear that „it“ will never end. About the fear that the collective nightmare that divides society in two will continue. About the fear of having to make a choice.
\nBreath_IN_OUT doesn’t address the topic of pandemics in a documentary or political way, but rather narrates it on a structural level and poses the question: What causes fear in our breathing?
\nThe audio piece therefore focuses on the respiratory system\u2014as the entity primarily threatened by the virus. The protagonist is the oh-so-silent yet so existentially important servant of our vitality: breath.
\nIn this three-act narrative, the mechanical-physical and the associated emotional process of breathing condense and develop into a breathing drama.<\/p>\n

Content
\nBreath_IN_OUT transports the listener into a nightmarish otherworld. A kaleidoscope of delusional sequences unfolds, generating an almost manic form of expression through a penetrating focus on the (seemingly) simple moment of breathing. This manifests feelings of elemental hopelessness, especially through the exaggerated repetition of the same mantras „I breathe, you breathe, they breathe, we breathe“ and „breathe in – breathe out.“ It becomes clear that great physical and emotional turmoil ensues as soon as inhalation or exhalation becomes unbalanced. This results in shortness of breath, fear of death, and, with it, an unconditional will to live.
\nBreathing as a priority. Breathing as the „foundation of life.“ Breathing as a survival measure required every second.<\/p>\n

In Breath_IN_OUT, there is a general fear of breathing. Am I breathing? Even while I sleep? Who or what is breathing inside me? Can I breathe? How do I breathe correctly? Am I breathing healthily? „Who will help me breathe?“ The fear of the next breath \u2013 and the fear that it could be the last. „Taking a breath is taking a breath. You just have to breathe it in. Then you’ve absorbed it. Get it. – Get this air. And you’ll live one breath longer,“ the piece says.
\nInhaling and exhaling are interdependent, and both are processes in our bodies that we generally don’t pay much attention to. That’s a good thing, because breathing works best without our conscious intervention.
\nThe pure act of breathing is addressed here in a shockingly direct and prominent way. After all, it is the beginning and end point of all our lives.
\nBreathing from the Latin: in-spiration: breathing in, letting the spirit in. The breathing process constantly oscillates between potential death (through not breathing) and life (through breathing again). And when „inspiration is over,“ as the piece says, that’s always a little death\u2014at least in art.<\/p>\n

Instruments
\nThe audio piece is realized with breath, spoken word, singing, and vocal noise. These are embedded in electronic sounds, a theremin, and an accordion. Other instruments such as gongs, chimes, a temple fish, a sansula, a harmonium, and a koto harp lend the audio piece a distinctive sonic character at specific points<\/p>\n

> Video-Teaser:\u00a0Breath_In_Out<\/strong><\/h2>\n