Leven Muster Collective’s Sensing City
Sensing City is an interdisciplinary live-production featuring an ensemble of 11 musicians of the Conservatory of Amsterdam and several video-screens that serve as an occasional conductor to the musicians.
Neither the music nor the visuals are the sole object of attention to the observer at any point of the performance, but they rather develop their relationship by evolving continuously throughout the show.
The video screens often broadcast live-scenes from outside the venue and are visible to both the performers and the audience. At certain moments, the urban movements on the screens are graphically accentuated and these accents are interwoven cues and rhythms within the original musical compostition. Sensing City explores the rhythms of the city, it makes them sound with the voice of acoustical instruments.
In April 2008 the original performance took place in club11, on the eleventh floor of a multi-storey building in the heart of Amsterdam. A documentation including the uncut performance was released on DVD in 2009.
The project received international support from universities, funds and private companies.
The project was produced by Martyn Heyne and Martin Hiltawski who where students at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and Frederic Gmeiner who studies at the UdK in Berlin.