Classical flashmob
- It’s part cover version, part interpretation, says Marina Rosenfeld about Teenage Lontano. A choir of teenagers sings Ligeti while listening to mp3 players. Teenage Lontano is her version of György Ligeti’s Lontano from 1967, a work well known from the movie 2001. A space odyssey by Stanley Kubrick.
In this setting, the work is performed by a teenage choir listening to Lontano on mp3 players. More or less like a flashmob, the phenomenon where a group of people gather to dance to the same music each of them are listening to on their own mp3 players.
The work has been performed in New York and Amsterdam earlier. “Moving, with a nice seriousness to it,” as an audience member in Amsterdam put it.
The New York-based sound artist and DJ Marina Rosenfeld has shown Teenage Lontano and other works at the Whitney Biennal and other respected exhibition spaces. She has worked a lot with the stumbling and amateurish as forms of expression.
Photo: Andrew Lentz