“no one ever told me we should’ve already been here” took place in the emergency- staircase of the Dutch National Opera. In this site-specific music-theatrical piece, a telephone caller (Laura Bohn) unknowingly intrudes on a strange community. Her well-developed speech and their dissociated sounds echo in the same space, slowly turning into patterns as they pollute and influence each other. Inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros and Cornelius Cardew, we decided to create and work with our own text-scores. We composed musically, textually and physically in the space and scripted these differing scenes into one giant, printable script-score that decided our actions, text and musical creation during the piece. The resulting performance dealt with linguistic and musical (mis)communication, strongly thematised by the uncanny.

Operatic performance by Re:Master Opera collective

I fell asleep on minute 6 was an in-depth exploration of our collective psyche through researching our dreams. The piece revolves around the act of Dream-Excavation: diving into the content and form of dreams as a way of poetically exploring both the individual and collective subconscious. We departed from a shared curiosity on the two-phase sleep pattern of medieval times, the uncanny essence of dreams, and the incredible dream documentation of Dion McGregor. Over a few weeks, we recorded our dreams in the freshest form possible: at the very second of waking up from them. The outcomes were everlasting yawns, hypnotising vocal fries, shredded speeches and absurdist storylines. Using the words and vocal qualities of our dreams, we composed this work using means of collage, pastiche and layering.

In I-Human care if you cry, the fresh class of Re:master Opera at Sandberg Institute had the chance to freely use the freshly released album, Cousin of Amsterdam- based artist COUSIN. COUSIN's is a blend of pop, minimal, and ambient with a strong gravitational pull, creating a tidal push-and-pull tension. The artist gave us access to all the stems of their album, which we have reknit together into a new creation, with a more upbeat energy. The production of this work turned out to be a field research in collective creation, out of which the backbone of RE:MASTER OPERA emerged. In this 35-minute opera performance, we evoke the friction between individual and collective, the process of human data harvesting, and human-to-non-human relationships.