Ulrike Gabriel

generates propaganda** in the format of concerts. The flow-orchestra and it´s guests react directly onto the daily stagings of reality. The flow results out of the transformation of live inputs by performers and musicians as manipulators (pick-up and generation of content), talking-heads (speech performance) and generators (computer and wind music). In the concert material becomes filtert out of the media streams tv, radio and internet and is build into the stream of text that becomes generated on-the-fly. Opinions respt. Right before the concert, statements concerning the presence of staging in the private space are taken from passengers on the street. They serve as the base for sound generation. Improvisating on flow´s set of rules the orchestra filters, disassembles and recontextualizes the contents of information streams and interviews. It generates live an associative speaking stream of sound. A guest spirit that is remotely connected to the event is invited to speak her/his content through the talking head directly into the concert.

“...there was no major change in the last years .... except in the opinion of the opinionmakers ... "(flow120103)