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Sonic Boom David Eugene Edwards has composed music for "Sonic Boom", a production of the Dutch Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Belgian modern dance company Ultima Vez, by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. At least that was how it was advertised...
Sonic Boom: A production of Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Ultima Vez in coproduction with the Festival de Marseille and PACT/Zollverein Choreographisches Zentrum NRW (Essen)
Text: Peter Verhelst 
'Sonic Boom is an impulsive noise similar to thunder. It is caused by an object moving faster than sound, about 750 per hour at seau level. An aircraft travelling through the atmosphere, continuously produces air-pressure waves similar to the water waves caused by a ship's bow. When the aircraft exceeds the speed of sound, these pressure waves combine and form shock waves which travel forward from the generation or "release" point.' Wim Vandekeybus directs three of Toneelgroep Amsterdam's most achieved actors and nine performers of his own company, Ultima Vez. After 'Scratching the Inner Fields' and 'Blush', the text material again generates from a collaboration with Belgian poet and novellist Peter Verhelst. The music for 'Sonic Boom' will be composed, amongst others, by David Eugene Edwards, singer-songwriter of the well-known American band '16 Horsepower' and the solo project 'Woven Hand'.
For this extraordinary work Wim Vandekeybus borrows from his personal memory. "I remember as a child playing about in the yard, my little body in bathing trunks, and squatting down when suddenly a booming sound made the earth shudder and the windows rattle." The starting point for the creation of 'Sonic Boom' is formed by two seemingly entirely independent phenomena: supersonic booms and night radio. A supersonic boom is like a thunderclap. "I looked at the blue sky and heard a jet plane in one spot while seeing it in another." Image is faster than sound. In night radio (late night radio talk shows) sound evolkes images. Voices and sounds enhance the imagination. Stories and memories melt together. Everything is transformed. In 'Sonic Boom' Wim Vandekeybus bridges the gap between gut emotion and imagination, between the physical and verbal, between images and stories, between dance and theatre. Is our life worth just one story? A story as a memory... A story as seduction... A story as entertainment... A story as a painkiller... A story as an instrument of war... Stories as a rippling pool of oil.  Sonic Boom on tour:
14-04-03: (try-out) 20.15 Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam (NL) For more information, please visit the Toneelgroep Amsterdam website.
   
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