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Piaf

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2025 | 120'
Live band + pre-recorded string orchestra

Pam Gems
Directed by Stephen Simms 

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

 

00:00 / 06:16

Excerpts:

0:00 - 0:37 - Tanzorchester Pre-show music (excerpt)

0:38 - 1:27 - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt (excerpt)

1:28 - 2:24 - La Ville Inconnue (excerpt)

2:25 - 3:08 - Marcel Cerdan Boxing drill (excerpt)

3:09 - 3:56 - La Belle histoire d'amour (excerpt)

3:57 - 4:33 - Interval music - New York (excerpt)

4:34 - 5:25 - Bravo pour le clown (excerpt)

5:25 - 6:14 - Hymne a l'amour (excerpt)

Looking for Andy

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2023 | 30'
Found sounds and electronics

By Stephen Simms and Aleksandar Dundjerovic

Performed by Stephen Simms, in collaboration with Os Satyros (São Paulo, Brazil).

Review - ****

 

00:00 / 05:59

Excerpts:

0:00 – Intro (excerpt)

0:45 – “Annoyance” (excerpt)

2:00 – “Studio 54” (excerpt)

3:30 – “Remembrance” (excerpt)

4:30 – “Sexy music” (excerpt)

Macbeth Projeto Live Zoom

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Live Zoom Digital Theatre
2020 | 30' - Found sounds and electronics

Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Alexandar Dundjerovic & Rodolfo Garcia Vázquez.

Performed by Os Satyros and Stephen Simms as part of the Satyrianas Festival 2020

00:00 / 01:39

Excerpt:

0:00 – Dunsinane (Live Zoom version)

http://macbethprojeto.co.uk/cycle-6/

The Good Soul of Szechuan

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2019 | 50'
Live band and electronics

Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Alexandar Dundjerovic

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 03:56

Excerpts:

0:00 – “Eines Tags” (excerpt)

1:00 – “The Good Soul” (excerpt)

1:40 – “Goodness is not in demand” (excerpt)

2:50 – “Money” (excerpt)

Macbeth Projeto #1-5

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Interdisciplinary performing arts research project
2017-20 | 30'
Electronics soundscape design & installation

Shakespeare
Adapted and directed by Alexandar Dundjerovic

Performed by members of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Performative Arts

00:00 / 02:23

Excerpt:

0:00 – “Sleep no more”

Pentecost

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2017 | 40'
Live Balkan Band

David Edgar
Directed by Alexandar Dundjerovic

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 08:56

Excerpts:

0:00 – Opening

2:10 – Refugees’ entrance

3:20 – Roasted peppers (excerpt)

4:25 – Balkan dance (excerpt)

5:55 – Romanian dance (excerpt)

7:30 – Postshow dance (excerpt)

Holy Day

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2017 | 135'
Electronics and live percussion

Andrew Bovell
Directed by Lise Olson

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 05:51

Excerpts:

0:00 – Opening

1:55 – Cue 9 (excerpt)

2:55 – Cue 17 (excerpt)

4:00 – Cue 30 (excerpt)

5:00 – Cue 37 (excerpt)

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

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2017 | 60'
Live electronics, trumpet and saxophone

Devised and directed by Stephen Simms after Robert Wiene's film

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 02:38

Excerpts:

0:00 – Freak show (part 2)

1:00 – Caligari’s moment

Blood Wedding

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2017 | 80'
Pre-recorded electronics, live folk band

Federico García Lorca
Directed by Gari Jones

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 01:49

Excerpt:

Death’s speech

Phedra

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2017 | 60'
Live electronics and Greek, Turkish and Moroccan pipes

Jean Racine
Directed by Gareth Somers

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 01:04

Excerpt:

Curtain call

Dream Big

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2017 | 15'
Electronics soundscape design

Directed by Alexandar Dundjerovic

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company at the Dream Big Engineering Festival at the Bullring shopping centre.

00:00 / 01:17

Excerpt from the live performance

Ciphers

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2016 | 35'
Electronics

Dawn King
Directed by Kirstie Davis

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 06:41

Excerpts:

0:00 – Postshow Music

2:30 – “Anoushka”

5:45 – Transition 4

6:15 – Transition 24

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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2016 | 40'
Pre-recorded orchestra, live 50's band

Shakespeare
Directed by Lise Olson

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 05:21

Excerpts:

0:00 – Preludio

2:05 – Mambo (live)

The Sins of Sor Juana

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2016 | 50'
Pre-recorded early music ensemble

Karen Zacarías
Directed by Lise Olson

Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Theatre Company

00:00 / 05:02

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