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My name is Karl Heinz Jeron. I'm an artist from Berlin.
My opera 'Hermes' can be seen at Fotolia
it is about telephone conversations sung by robots.
Some years ago, I was very annoyed by people's notorious mobile phone conversations in the train
But then I was suddenly inspired to write down those conversations.
I created a Libretto out of these texts and now I perform this as an opera with singing robots.
The choir begins the performance with 'Hello, hello, do you hear me? I can't understand you.'
Alongside such banalities as 'Where are you?' or 'I'm in the train',
you sometimes hear very precise moments in the private life of the person speaking.
A quotation: 'I don't mean to be this "internet letting-off-steam-girl", but somehow thats what I am.'
Writing those conversations down means you can only hear one person talking.
- which is really annoying -
but I combined these monologues to create dialogues.
These dialogues are then performed by the singers - the robots.
It's the first opera at Fotolia and the whole team was involved:
Karl Heinz Jeron gave us a list of buzzwords from the libretto.
And we selected images according to this which form the background of the opera.
The exhibition was shown at the European Media Arts Festival,
at the Liverpool Biennale and is now moving on to Prague.