Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

With a hybrid concert performance, the Offenbach music and digital performance duo BBB_ (allapopp and Alex Sahm) present their latest electro album project “Songs of Cyborgeoisie”. “Songs of Cyborgeoisie” is firstand foremost a journey through a sci-fi world seeking to liberate itself from currently prevailing technological dystopias. The audience can attend the concert at Mousonturm or immerse themselves from home in a digital game world created by the artists. Over the course of the story, visitors experience the development of 7 characters and become part of the action – either as an audience member at Mousonturm or as a gamer in the virtual world. For each piece of music and in each level of the game, the characters embody human fears about the technological present. They question visions of transhumanist utopias and imagine their own tech-positive future. As a multimedia opera, the live musical performance interweaves experimental electronic sound, spoken word and singing, live instrumental sounds and a Russian-speaking choir.

“Songs of Cyborgeoisie – Extended” is the next stage in the development of the duo’s hybrid performance format and is being developed as part of the NODE switch project. The experimental format welcomes audience members live and online – gaming stations connect the virtual and the physical space. In a post-show discussion, the audience is invited to reflect on the performance together over drinks and to contribute to the further development of the hybrid concert format.