Remixing a clockwork orange

Stanley Kubrick’s cinema classic A Clockwork Orange did not only become 
famous for its intense imagery, but also for its sophisticated 
soundtrack by Wendy Carlos. Re-interpretating music by Beethoven,
Rossini and Purcell on her Moog Synthesizer, Carlos succeeds in opening 
up a new aesthetical dimension to these well-known pieces.

 At the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2016, Schallfeld initiated a project 
focused on the question how a transcription of this transcription could
 sound today, almost half a century after the film’s original release. In
 a broader sense, this encompassed also questions about the relation 
between tradition and (technical) innovation, repertoire works and new 
creations, between sound and the moving image.

The second iteration of “Remixing a Clockwork Orange” takes one further
 step into the film’s world: while maintaining the idea of a “remix”, we 
also zoom into the main thematic aspects of the film’s plot. The 
entaglement of guilt and redemption as a timeless phenomenon will be 
woven into a set of new compositions and bound together by a video
installation that processes the imagery of the original film into a 
flowing, dreamlike state.

Five composers whose work is strongly connected to the idea of remix and 
the visual arts are given commissions for the project: Jorge 
Sánchez-Chiong*, Mikolai Laskowski, Zeno Baldi*, Lorenzo Romano* and 
Michelle Agnes Magalhaes* will work in close collaboration with the video
artist Peter Venus to create an unique performance.

*Pieces commissioned thanks to the support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.