hold for three

designer

Credit: Kim Wichera

OBJECT AND SET DESIGN

Initial concept & performance, object design assistance: Lottie Sebes

Concept development & Performance, Object design assistance: Kayla Elrod

Sound design: Aleksander Artur Filipiak

Dramaturgic collaboration & Acting coach: ONIX

Graphic design: Davide Luciani

Documentation: Kim Wichera

Sonic performance with amplified bellows

First performed at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, July 21th, 2023 // more info

Produced with the support of the initiative neue musik berlin e.V.

‘Hold for Three’ is a sonic performance which morphs bodies into machinehood and objects into organs. Kayla Elrod and Lottie Sebes probe the sonic capacities of various bellows, operating them as instruments, extensions and prosthetics. Sonic worlds are built from wheezing breath, creaking hinges, loosening screws, and hot air hissing. Outmoded objects of production are transformed into otherworldly organs, powered by mechanical respiration, a cycle of tension and release. With affection, play and struggle, we maintain constant operation, we make use of the useless.

What slips from a hosed mouth on the floor of an old ship?