Scenic Panner is a Audio-Video Performance, which we showed in 2007 at the Ars Electronica in Linz, at the Kammerspiele in Munich and in 2006 at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Its visual center is generated by urban landscapes – travelling shots of landscapes moving continuously over multiple projections. This inventory of metropolises comprises numerous objects photographed in Chicago, Berlin and Munich and will be extended continually over the time.

The diversity of objects is important since it is through their combination and repetition that fascinating and subliminal statements are developed. The contrast of industrial buildings and artificially populated landscapes, places appearing strange or familiar, and streets lively or abandoned, create another view of the urban surroundings in which we move day in day out. 

Musical improvisation directs the panorama whose content is formally defined by us, the authors. The musicians are tourists in our artificial world, whose form they experience the first time during the live interpretation. Music is the dominant steering force but at the same time it is at the mercy of the aesthetics and form of the projection. The result is an interaction between the Scenic Panner and the musicians: on one hand the appearance of the images represent the music and on the other the musicians are influenced by the images.

Kammerspiele Munich

Bauhaus Dessau