Amos Elkana — composer and guitarist

New World Order

Year: 2013    op.39
Duration: 10 minutes
Text by: Harold Pinter

Instrumentation

Live Electronics

Video

Program Note

This work takes inspiration from Harold Pinter’s unsettling and still-relevant play New World Order. The text, translated into Hebrew and recorded by two male voices, emanates from speakers on stage, setting the scene with an atmosphere of menace and control.

A silent performer responds to the recorded dialogue solely through physical gestures and movement. Every sound produced on stage — footsteps, breath, motion — is captured by an overhead microphone, processed in real time by computer, and diffused through the loudspeakers. The result is an interplay of theater, sound, and technology, where human fragility confronts systems of power.

Performances

  • 22 Nov 2013 Amos Elkana (Live Electronics), Sommer Ulrickson (Choreography and dance) Hateiva Jaffa Israel