A one-time event

Rat Choir 2023
Berlin Assembly
by Gunnhildur Hauksdottir

Rats make sixteen different sounds to express happiness in a frequency undetectable by the human ear. They name each other and play social games according to rules which they express with sounds, as their existence is mostly lived in darkness. Hauksdóttir has created a score for human voices based on the rats’ social dynamics, sonographic images of rat sounds and human phonetics, thus assembling the Rat Choir.

The Rat Choir was first performed in Reykjavik in 2020 and has been on display in various forms: in Reykjavik Art Museum 2020, Mala Voadora in Porto 2020, Municipal Gallery of Porto 2021, the National Gallery of Iceland 2022, and at the House of Collection in Reykjavik in 2023.

For one evening in Changing Room, under the “More-than-human: Music from other species” series, there will be a new assembly and a new performance with new participants.
With the sonographic iconography as a backdrop, twelve people vocalize twelve rat-calls in an arrangement based on social dynamics of rats.

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"More-than-human: Music from other species" by Changing Room
A series of events and projects as well as the accompanying podcast series "In Conversation with Nature" will explore the various relationships between humans, nature and music.

20:00 - please, make sure you arrive on time!
Duration: 30’ + after-event hang out over drinks!
Changing Room, Cornelius-Fredericks-Straße 11⁠, 13351, Berlin
free entrance

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The realization of the Rat Choir was supported by the Myndstef association.
ChangingRoom is a project by @tatiana_echeverri_fernandez and is supported by Berliner Senat für Kultur und Europa (@senkulteu).⁠

*Note: Cornelius-Fredericks-Straße was renamed from Lüderitzstraße on 02.12.22 and at the time of this post the street may have not yet been updated in some GPS systems.
 

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