Actress: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Actress x Stockhausen Sin {x} II – the latest large-scale work from British contemporary electronic artist Actress (Darren J. Cunningham), and his Artificial Intelligence recording and performance group, Young Paint.
Co-commissioned by Southbank Centre and Holland Festival, this new composition for choir, AI, piano and electronics sees Actress present his reimagining of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Welt-Parlament (1995).
In the original, members of a fictional parliament in the sky discuss the meaning of love. This one-off live performance used recordings of real-life debates on the subject of love, held at House of Lords in December 2018. Participants included Baroness Jenkin, Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Conservative MPs Pauline Latham, Ed Vaizey and Sir Bernard Jenkin. Their insight and wisdom have been used to inspire the debate within the Libretto, lifting out headlines from each participating Member.