Sound & Syntax with Svenja Reiner

performance by Andrei Cucu and Svenja Reiner for spoken word, prepared electric guitar, and cassette tapes.
commissioned by Wolke Verlag for their program at Maerzmusik library, 2026.
Poetry and music: Andrei Cucu
Text selection, reading: Svenja Reiner
Sound & Syntax with Svenja Reiner
4 channel sound production, live electronics programming, and live sound direction for music theatre based on the dramas by Sophocles, Heiner Müller & André Gide (2022), commissioned by Festival Neue Musik ECLAT | Musik der Jahrhunderte, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, premiered on the 2nd of February 2023
Composition & stage concept: Samir Odeh-Tamimi
Co-Direction: Rosabel Huguet
Libretto: Claudia Pérez Iñesta
Collaboration Costume: Indra Nauck
Sound direction, live electronics, trailer video edit:
Andrei Cucu
Philoktet: Daniel Gloger (countertenor)
Neoptolemos: Martin Nagy (tenor)
Odysseus: Andreas Fischer (bass)
Intruder & Chorus: Guillermo Anzorena (baritone)
Greek Chorus: Johanna Vargas (soprano), Susanne Leitz-Lorey (soprano), Truike van der Poel (mezzo-soprano)
Zafraan Ensemble