In “Schweigt Stille/Sober up!”, Argentine composer and theater-maker Santiago Blaum confronts the canonical work of European “high” art with the concrete political and economic conditions of its production. He breaks through the harmonies of European classical music with Latin American rhythms, shifting the focus from ‘music for the mind’ to its physicality. Blaum contrasts the narrative of Europe, which has suddenly sobered up by dint of the miraculous intervention of coffee, shaking off the numbness of centuries of beer and wine consumption, with the materiality of coffee as a cultivated crop.
Santiago Blaum was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied literature, piano and composition, opera singing and theater improvisation. Together with director Pablo Maritano, he founded the group Torquato Tasso Beauty Performer (Buenos Aires 2000-2003), in which he directed and performed himself. Since 2004 he has worked as a musical director and composer in Berlin with She She Pop and Constanza Macras/Dorky Park, among others. Since 2010, he has directed and composed several independent music theater productions that premiered at the HAU and the Sophiensäle in Berlin. Since 2018, he has also been performing with his music project Señorita, which combines Latin American music with experimental electro-pop.
In German without subtitles
Tickets: 12–16€
