Jenseitsraueme (2016)

Devised and performed in conjunction with chant specialists  Maria Jonas and Oscar Mascarenas, Jenseitsraueme brings together the visionary musico-poetic universe of Hildegard of Bingen, the intuitive, exploratory trajectories of free improvisation and the luminous revelatory poetic philosophy of Rainer Maria Rilke. Originating in a discourse established between Steve Boyland and Maria Jonas during the  Liverpool’s year as European City of Culture in 2008 and research conducted  by Boyland and Mascarenas at the University of Limerick into the application of somatic methodologies to the chant tradition, Jenseitsraueme was premiered at the Galerie Schmidt & Handrup, Cologne in April 2016.