Sympathy for the Devil was presented by the Soundstream New Music at the Samstag Art Museum September 28th 2016.

Adapted from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.  Satan is defeated in his attempt to usurp power in Heaven. He and his legions are cast down into a lake of fire. With the support of Beëlzebub, he rallies the defeated army of fallen angels and determines his next strategem: to bring about the fall of mankind.

Archangel     Ksenja Logos

Satan            Rory Walker

Beëlzebub     Paul Blackwell

The images below are from the Soundstream performance at the Samstag Museum of Art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sympathy for the Devil was originally developed as a workshop project (May 2015) supported by Arts SA exploring live radiophonic performance in immersive audio. It grew out of our collective experience in creative radiophonic production and is motivated by our desire to explore new modes of performance in a post-radiophonic environment. We collaborated closely with Italian audio technology researchers working on the cutting edge of spatial audio technology.

The images below are from the 2015 workshop development in the dance hall of The German Club:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The work was further developed during a composer residency at the Electronic Music Unit of the Elder Conservatorium of Music in May 2016, following its commission by Soundstream New Music.