excerpts from 'Produktionsmittel III' (2015–16)
Channel: Joan Arnau Pàmies
Date: 2016-05-23

Produktionsmittel III is a 78-page book, which can be read in the privacy of the reader's mind or performed publicly as an experimental music theater piece. The work uses a wide variety of text-types, from literary forms to parametrical, graphic, and conventional music notation. 
 
Plot-wise, it is the story of the dawn and collapse of five alien civilizations that coexist in the multiverse. Or perhaps I should say that it is the story of the very multiverse, which randomly generates spaces for the existence of life forms—forms which, in some cases, evolve into sophisticated structured systems (i.e., civilizations).
 
Since this is a story of space-time, it would not be very appealing to present it linearly. Instead, time is treated as a malleable substance that allows the reader/listener to experience reality as a fragmented construction whose totality must be tangentially inferred. In addition, reality is expressed in many of its scales: from the sounds produced by condensation inside of a prepared clarinet to a sonic representation of the formation of the stars.

First public interpretation by Jessica Aszodi, Emily Beisel, Carlos Cordeiro, Zachary Good, and Jeff Siegfried

May 17, 2016
Ryan Opera Theater (Evanston, Illinois)