Premiere: September 17, 2021 – Festival Musica – Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg
Commissioned: Festival Musica, La Muse en Circuit – Centre National de Création Musicale, Opéra National du Rhin
Production: Festival Musica
Coproduction: Théâtre Le Maillon, Percussions de Strasbourg, La Muse en Circuit – Centre National de Création Musicale, Multimedia Kontor Hamburg
Musicians: 6 percussionists, 5 performers, 4 singers
Duration: 35 hours and 34 minutes
Immersive installation, interactive performance, place of spirituality for the present and future. With Asterism, Alexander Schubert creates an unidentified artistic object at the crossroads of music, stage and technology. Within a strange sanctuary, constantly vacillating between hyperrealism and virtuality, natural and artificial elements, musicians and performers, as well as an artificial intelligence in control of the ritual, come together. A post-digital nature, a hallucinatory in-between-worlds that the public is invited to explore at any time of the night or day.