The experimental performance “Born To Lose” brings together musicians from different genres in an audiovisual revue show created by Karin Müller. Live music meets the language of film.
“Born To Lose” is the further development of a video performance that Karin Müller first realised in Berlin in March. For the updated performance, she is now inviting local musicians to Perla-Mode. Karin Müller has pre-produced eight different videos. Film clips from well-known Hollywood films serve as the source material for the video clips. The artist filters film sequences of powerful, overwhelming emotions, protagonists in pain, grief or loneliness. The film fragments are looped, fragmented, mixed, dissected, overwritten and recombined. Decoupled from their narrative content, the film sequences become a kind of microscopic research material on the representation of emotion in Hollywood films.
The invited musicians are each assigned a video, from which they develop a free musical commentary, a soundtrack that is ultimately performed live in front of an audience during the projection of the video clip.
Concept and video by Karin Müller
with live music by Big Zis, Christoph Gantert, Oliver Obert aka Sportsguitar, Sandra Künzi, Pascal Häusermann, Toini, Marcuso Vikovsky, Franziska Koch & Roland Saum