What if the concert was watching you back?
In Last Show, German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf turns the auditorium into a live social experiment.
Set somewhere between a television studio, concert hall, and a system quietly slipping out of control, this immersive work dissolves the line between audience and performer. Fourteen musicians operate as both showband and ensemble, while sound mutates between slick entertainment and abstraction, constantly reshaping itself.
Guided by Muntendorf’s concept of Radical Listening, you’re invited to engage, respond, vote, or just reflect – to step out of anonymity and into the mechanics of the show. As questions appear, roles shift, content fades, what remains is a shared space where music, technology, and social behaviour collide.
Part performance, part fiction, part mirror, Last Show asks not what you think – but how you’re thinking, and who you become when everything is staged.
Welcome to the spectacle.
Brigitta Muntendorf is one of Germany’s most progressive voices among a new generation of composers. She creates music that explores the fragility of socio-political concepts, confronting themes such as public versus private and digital identity. The result is work that is challenging, innovative, and thought-provoking — music you can both feel and reflect upon.
Participate in this concert: Every member of the audience will be invited to participate in this concert via their mobile phones, answering questions that encourage self-reflection and challenging perceptions.
This event is produced by the London Sinfonietta. The work of the London Sinfonietta is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
CONNECT is an initiative generously supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne in collaboration with London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Het Muziek, Remix Ensemble Casa da Música and Ensemble intercontemporain.
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