Asa Horvitz / Carmen Quill / Ariadne Randall / Wayne Horvitz – GHOST
Friday 18 September 2026, 20:00
Muziek
GHOST by Asa Horvitz is a concert about grief, memory and AI. With Carmen Quill, Ariadne Randall and Wayne Horvitz, a layered performance emerges for voice, piano, electronics and viola da gamba, based on texts about loss and memory. GHOST is a concert about memory, grief and the lingering presence of the past. After the death of his father, composer Asa Horvitz collected 151 books about death, grief, archives and memory. Together with computational linguist Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant and theorist Alejandro Calcaño, he trained a small, deliberately 'flawed' AI on these texts. This generates fragmentary, repetitive and poetic language that evokes how memories and sorrow present themselves. These texts became the basis for a series of songs that Horvitz performs with singer and bassist Carmen Quill, performer Ariadne Randall and pianist Wayne Horvitz. The result is a concert for voice, piano, electronics and viola da gamba, in which voices move between speaking and singing and music and language repeat in fragments of memory. Originally a multimedia work, GHOST is presented during Dear Antwerp as a concert without scenography.
Performers
Asa Horvitz, artistieke leiding | generated by a custom, intentionally broken AI system, tekst | Carmen Quill, stem | Wayne Horvitz, piano, synthesizers, stem | Ariadne Randall, electronics, processing, synthesizers, stem | Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, AI system design | Golden Trout Wilderness (NL/USA), geproduceerd door | Celestial Excursions Wien (AT), in samenwerking met | SPRING performing arts festival, coproductie | City of Vienna Culture Department, met steun van | Goethe Institut Hong Kong, residentie, ontwikkeling | The Couch / HET HEM, website versie in opdracht van | Het HEM (NL), vinyl uitgegeven door | trained on writings about death, grief, and memory, tekst | Alejandro Calcaño, AI system design | SHOW MACHINE (NL), in samenwerking met | Het HEM, coproductie | the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports (Austria), met steun van | Bâtard Festival, residentie, ontwikkeling | Celestial Excursions (US), vinyl uitgegeven door | wpZimmer, residentie, ontwikkeling | Muziekgebouw Productiehuis (Amsterdam), coproductie | Amsterdam Fonds voor Kunst, met steun van | Frascati Producties, coproductie | De Gemeente Utrecht, met steun van | DE SINGEL, residentie, ontwikkeling | Musiktheatertage Wien, coproductie | Amsterdam Zuid, met steun van | Microscope Gallery NYC, residentie, ontwikkeling | KlavierLoft Wien, met steun van | brutWien, coproductie | Camargo Foundation (Cassis), residentie, ontwikkeling | MacDowell, residentie, ontwikkeling | DAS Theatre (Amsterdam), residentie, ontwikkeling | ELIAS 2069, residentie, ontwikkeling
