What would happen if there were a United Organization of Organisms, called UOO (uh-oh)
where each species gets one vote?
Would mankind be voted off the planet?
Would we be rejected by the biosphere as a virulent organism?
We are nature,
we are not separate from it
It's a natural gift we have
It is just
Recalling it
It is just
Reclaiming it
It is just
Re-enchanting it

(Text by Birsen Uçar for PAST >| ORALE)

In a world where nature, humans and technology intersect, PAST >| ORALE unfolds—a transdisciplinary performance by ZEFIRO TORNA and the SEADS Network. Based on Beethoven’s philosophy behind the visionary ballet Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus—in which fire symbolises liberation and progress—a new musical biotope emerges. Here, art and science merge into a utopian ecosystem in which humans, micro-organisms and machines engage in a symbiotic dance.

Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte and his cello sona-tas resonate in a new light: transformed into contemporary compositions, embedded in a sound world of ambient, spoken word, sound art and alternative pop. Sound waves influence living matter, and microscopic projections reveal a hidden world—a sonic habitat in which hybrid sounds transport the listener to an unknown time and space.

PAST>|ORALE is a sensory experience, a speculative journey beyond the present, in which the boundaries between nature, technology and imagination blur.