Performance and installation
I Didn’t Hear What You Say
I Didn’t Hear What You Say
Between classical music and media, a contemporary pianist attempts to communicate with an instrument that has become a machine
Age
12+
Duration
50 min
Premiere
Planned 2026-11-10
About the work
Isn’t piano a beautiful instrument? It carries with it a long history of virtuosity, refinement and a certain idea of musical prestige. However, here, we’re entering to a new set: a live pianist and an autonomous Disklavier meet on stage. They interact, but their dialogue seems like a toxic relationship. Whereas the musician fights for emancipation and new performative experiments, the machine tries to lock her in the past. Their dialogue becomes a jubilatory fight between human and machine.
After the performance, the audience is invited onto the stage: the instruments, sound, light and image keep running, and control over them is handed over to the audience. The mechanics of the work become an open instrument.
Our relationship with the machine could create a general schizophrenic planet because we are losing a certain type of relationship with the world. And I don’t know if it’s dangerous. I mean, I live with my time. I also used AI in this project.
Composer Pierre Jodlowski
Team
Creative team
Composer, director
Pierre Jodlowski
Choreography
Greta Grinevičiūtė
Engineers
Deividas Dzikevičius, Paulius Balašaitis
Production
Darius Vizbaras
On stage
On stage
Julija Vingelė (Bagdonavičiūtė)
Photos
Gallery
Awards · nominations
Recognition
Premiere
Planned 2026-11-10
Kaunas City Chamber Theatre, Kaunas
Calendar
Upcoming dates
Delegate production
KOSMOS THEATRE
Coproduction
éOle, with the support of SACEM
Funded by
Lithuanian Council for Culture, LATGA, SACEM
Partners
LMTA PARC
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