Arturo Gui

Arturo
Gui

A Future Monastery built from frequency, image, memory.

next rite
Sunday 1 November
time
22:00 Athens · 21:00 Zurich · 15:00 New York
seats
33, numbered
replay
none
A performer traced in red lines in the flowers audiovisual work

What this is

The singer is the image.

You do not watch visuals. You watch one face and one body, transfigured in real time into gold veins, flowers and icon. Every image on screen is generated from the performer's movement in that second. Nothing is pre-made. When the voice stops, the image stops.

Baroque opera and Byzantine hymnody, bound into one story, structured by number. Online only. Always live. Never recorded.

Live rites

Each rite happens once, for a number of seats chosen for that rite.

  1. Sunday 1 November22:00 Athens21:00 Zurich15:00 New York

    The Unwritten Vespers

    33 numbered seats · no replay · 70 min

    Reserve seat · USD 55

Catalogue

The rites draw on a fixed body of work. Each piece transfigures the performer in its own way.

sung repertoire

  1. AG/01Cold SongPurcell, 1691
  2. AG/02Music for a WhilePurcell, 1692
  3. AG/03Lascia ch'io piangaHandel, 1711
  4. AG/04Cum dederitVivaldi, RV 608
  5. AG/05LacrimosaMozart, 1791
  6. AG/06Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehnMahler, 1904
  7. AG/07Byzantine hymnodytraditional

image works

  1. IW/01Flowersface tracking
  2. IW/02Gold Veinsface tracking
  3. IW/03Medusatransfiguration
Medusa, still from a live rite
Medusa
Flowers, still from a live rite
Flowers
Still from a live rite
Scream study

How a rite works

the voice
Sung live. Nothing is pre-recorded.
the image
The performer, transfigured in real time. No two rites look alike.
the seat
Every seat carries a number, printed on your ticket and certificate.
the room
Access opens thirty minutes before, on one device per seat.
the end
When the rite closes, it is gone. There is no recording.

Ways in

Four doors, each a different thing. None is a cheaper version of another.

Live rite

A numbered seat at a single performance, watched live from anywhere.

EUR 50 · seats set per rite

Private rite

A rite made for one to three people, shaped around them. Four open each cycle, by application.

USD 400 · 4 per cycle

Editions

A studio recording issued as a numbered relic, with certificate. When an edition is gone, it is retired.

from USD 200 · 15 to 25

The archive

Recorded works held for a while, then returned to the vault. Members enter through Patreon.

via Patreon