EP-frankenstein

contenuto

OHT confronts a classic of Western literature; Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Moving around the time of the experiment, OHT makes partial and vertical lunges into the text, without limits of form, language and duration. The novel becomes material to be examined, dissected, re-stitched, a body available for different experiments: a performance, a reading session, an installation, an EP, an aborted radio drama, a filmic adaptation and finally a book are generated as parts of the same experimentation that proceeds horizontally through the Shelley’s story to investigate its multiple ramifications.

The sound of Frankenstein mixes immersion and narration. Just like the text, the sound unfolds through a personal and subjective journey, empathising with the spectator and the narration. A direct result of the stage and performers' actions, all sound material was written, performed and recorded during rehearsals.

Like the protagonist of Mary Shelley, the newborn sound learns to coordinate itself in the world and realising itself with human beings. The performance, the performers and the sound gradually take shape and become aware of themselves, breath by breath. And it is precisely the breathing, through the performers' voices, that represents the genesis of sound, the monster that tries to express itself, the noise that gradually tries to take shape and become aware of itself.y