"Dream Machine" consists of two parts: In a telephone booth outside the theater, Visitors are invited to record their dreams, fears, and longings as audio messages. Enriched by texts by the author Matin Soofipour Omam and with voices from all over the world, three musicians and an actress develop a polyphonic composition from the collected material in the subsequent concert performance, which leads across the unconscious.
On the forecourt of the theater there is a telephone booth that is not a telephone booth at all. It is a Dream Machine, which invites the audience
to leave personal dream memories, wishes and desires as voice messages, in any language of this world. These messages become part of an ever-growing archive of voices that is later transmuted into music.
We all have dreams - during the day and at night. Dreams in which we
can fly, a child is lost or a snake dies. Do dreams find us or do we invent them? And how does our dream world change, when a crisis hits and reality is turned upside down? With voices of visitors of from the phone booth and voice messages from young people all over the world, whose dreams reached us during the pandemic, three musicians and an actress design a musical experimental field. Based on texts by Matin Soofipour Omam, they travel across the unconscious and search for new forms of contactless connection: How does a musical communal experience succeed when bodies must remain at a distance? In a polyphonic and kaleidoscope-like composition, the boundaries between dream and reality, between song and spoken word, electro and jazz are dissolved.
»Dream Machine is a great composition of light, music and words and gives deep insights into our dream worlds. Their versatility and oddity is expressed in Dream Machine in an impressive way and makes you want to remember your next dream after waking up. Here we go, good night!«
(Nicola Maas, Festival Editor Theater der Welt)
Dream Machine is unique in its artistic form. On stage there is an actress who playfully moves between singing, performing and acting, communicating with musicians. Together they tell a story that is set in the subconscious. Dream Machine is about processing a bereavement in one's sleep. The loss is triggered by the Corona pandemic, which prevents a goodbye and sets the repression in motion, and yet death and repression prove to be timeless. In the dream, what remains hidden in reality is revealed, everyday situations emerge as "remnants of the day," deeply buried needs and fears return in coded form. And somewhere in this shared dream, through which band and actress race like four astronauts in a spaceship, the telephone rings all the time. Voices are coming out of the receiver, which seem to come from somewhere far away - maybe from a phone booth? - and tell their dreams, and then there's nothing but static again, the stars fly by outside, and you have to ask yourself whether the other person is
and you have to sincerely ask yourself if the other person was really on the phone or if you were just imagining things. What a curious place the subconscious can be. After waking up, the question arises how to fix the experience. Dream Machine provides a possible answer through music, through art, through a common space of experience in which we share our dreams.