AN ALGAE CONCERT
An ambient experimental live show with plantwaves, synthesisers and more than human voices.
There will be two concerts:
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 7:30–8:00 PM
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 8:15–8:45 PM
ArCu – Open Space, Bismarckstraße 24A
The lawn in front of the Theaterlabor, with its panoptically arranged seating areas, serves as our stage
The performance “How to Breathe – An Algae Concert” is created with two humans, aquariums, and a whole lot of algae. Musician Tomás Pablo Ripoll Irarrazaval and choreographer Malin Harff form a band together with algae.
How can we bring other species closer to us humans? Algae are among the oldest living organisms on Earth and possess CO₂-binding abilities – adaptations to the climate from which we can learn a great deal.
This concert aims to translate the communication, rhythms, and sense of time of algae into a musical language. For this, we work with aquariums, Plantwaves, and synthesizers. The performance is for all ages and increasingly leads the audience to one central question: What can we learn from other species?
As the algae will be the ones leading the rhythm and music live, we look forward to an ambient experimental happening.
A Concert by Malin Harff and Collaborators
Malin Harff – Music and Performance
Tomás Pablo Ripoll Irarrazaval – Music and Performance
Simon Lenzen – Light, Tech, and Video
Funded by Kulturamt Gießen