Three Tales is a video-opera created in 2002 by Steve Reich and his wife, video maker Beryl Korot. As a counterpoint to Reich’s music performed live, a multimedia montage in three acts* projected onto a large screen puts three symbolic 20th-century technological advances into perspective: the Luftschiff Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg, nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll and the cloning of Dolly the sheep. A dark philosophical tale about history and the excesses of technology. One of Steve Reich’s first works, Pendulum Music (1968), is a “sound installation for microphones, amplifiers, speakers and performers” where the composer “reveals” the principle of phasing in music. Displaced by a performer, suspended microphones swing above speakers, causing feedback effects that gradually overlap.(To be seen after Three Tales) * Each audience group will have access to just one of the three acts of the video-opera.

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