It always begins with the music score. Whenever Nick & Clemens Prokop visualize music for a concert production, they see themselves in the interpretation thus making musical architecture visible, so to speak, reproducible and at best directly perceivable.
Technology is always used as a means, never as a gimmick or an end in itself. Interactive applications like those specially developed for Kent Nagano in "Sacre du Printemps" (Rite of Spring), illustrate and intensify the already existing relationship between conductors, orchestras and worlds of images.
One characteristic feature of the artistic thumbprint is an "abstraction from what is concrete". Mostly based on photographs and, in a some cases, also video sequences, Nick & Clemens Prokop work with overlaps beyond recognition.
These visual metamorphoses can extend over comparatively long periods, such as in the case of Cathedrals of Sound, where we are not dealing with just any kind of illustration, but rather with scenes highlighting a perception that has changed as a result of musical continuance among the audience itself.
© René Buttermann
Piano music from the 20th and 21st centuries, performed by three pianists in the Sternensaal (Star Hall) of Hamburg‘s Planetarium: a challenge to direct all eyes and ears on the unbelievably beautiful works of Nono, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Peter Ruzicka and Unsuk Chin.
© Will Pruett / Pacific Symphony
Anton Bruckner‘s monumental 8th Symphony at the centre of a major concert experience: "Cathedrals of Sound" with Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra is a vivid example of Nick & Clemens Prokop‘s "emblematic illumination".
© Nick & Clemens Prokop
An interactive visualization of Igor Strawinsky‘s "Sacre du Printemps" for Kent Nagano and the London Symphony Orchestra. Composed as a ballet, the worlds of images here emerge completely from the music as well as the movements of the composer and thus retrace the internal structure and story of this production, without the need for dancers.
© Nick & Clemens Prokop
Virtual landscapes for the choir of Bavaria’s broadcasting service (Bayerischer Rundfunk): In the musical "Vineta – Vokale Welten" (Vineta – Vocal Worlds), Nick & Clemens Prokop broach the issue of submerged societies. Large-scale worlds of images vary precisely according to the music. Thanks to state-of-the-art camera techniques, a light and shadow show evolves, which has never been achieved until now.
© Nick & Clemens Prokop
György Ligeti‘s music is already well known to a wide audience from the Stanley Kubrick films. His worlds of sound are equally captured on soundtrack. "Who's Afraid of György Ligeti" focuses on the beauty and chasms of his music and makes the abrupt switch from aggregate states visible - however, not without varying Kubrick‘s iconic picture motifs.
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