Songs for the Contract #10000009
Songs for the Contract is a collection of nine musical scenes that unfold intimate moments between five musicians in alternating constellations. The days and hours slow down and turn inwards as reality slowly fades away. Visitors create their own paths through unlinked fragments of music and time in the specially built online environment.
The performances are developed and performed by Billy Bultheel in collaboration with Alexander Iezzi, Steve Katona, Andie Stecher and Shade Theret between March and April 2021. The songs are part of a larger performance titled The Contract that will be presented in various contexts across Europe later this year, amongst others the 7th Athens Biennale, Disappearing Berlin by Schinkel Pavillon, Radialsystem Berlin and Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz.
Billy Bultheel is a composer and performance-maker based in Berlin and Brussels. His practice subverts the traditional forms of musical concerts into performance installations. His practice is grounded in a research of medieval polyphony and reaches into contemporary music and noise.
Amongst his latest works are When Doves Cry at the Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin, 2019), Spat from My Mouth, a piano concerto at KW (Berlin, 2019), The Minutes of Olomouc at (PAF, CZ, 2021). Bultheel has been a collaborator of the German performance artist Anne Imhof as a composer and performer, working on Imhof's exhibition-as-opera Angst (2016), Faust (2017), which was awarded the Golden Lion at the 57th Venice Biennial, and Sex (2019).
CREDITS
Developed and performed with Alexander Iezzi Steve Katona Andi Stecher Shade Theret
Digital Dramaturg Calum Bowden
Creative Technologist Everett Williams
Styling and Gear Billy Lobos
Technical Consultant Alessandro Bertelle
DAO developed in collaboration with Black Swan (Calum Bowden, Laura Lotti and Penny Rafferty)
Blockchain Technologist Billy Rennekamp
Thanks to Enad Marouf, Adam Hammad, Mads Kristian Frøslev, Julia Sjöllin, Lukas Ludwig
Supported by Flanders State of the Art Musikfonds