An artificial intelligence collects and archives substantial knowledge and experiences from the people of the last generation. In the face of an impending environmental catastrophe that will wipe out all human traces from the planet, everyday life raises its big questions about self-realization in art and work, about self-determination over lifestyle and gender. The “memory of humanity” becomes memory on a storage medium, dependent on power supply or rediscovery by extraterrestrial archeology.

In the n[o]ice! project, students have developed cutting-edge music theater: they question the value of art in relation to wage and care work and the impending extinction of humanity as a result of climate change and the waste of resources. The text was created in collaboration with the librettist Tina Hartmann, singers from the vocal department and composers from the Incontri Institute, who have transformed their view of the world into sound.

Premiere: The final product will be premiered as a self-contained work in June 2025 under the title “Al-Cinas Archiv” and is to be made reproducible; four performances are planned at the HMTMH, and guest performances are being considered.

Funded by the funding program for cutting-edge research and teaching in Lower Saxony, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture.

Al-Cinas Archiv (UA) 19. | 20. | 21. |23. June 2025, 7:30 p.m. at Richard Jakoby Saal, Neues Haus 1 • Singers of the vocal department | Instrumental ensemble of the HMTMH | Students of the HS Hannover • Prof. Mascha Pörzgen Project management: scenic instruction and direction • Yoonjee Kim: musical direction • Prof. Aaron Cassidy and Prof. Gordon Williamson, Institut Incontri: supervision of composition • Prof. Tina Hartmann, Universität Bayreuth: text production, libretto • Betty Mavropoulou, Hana Lim, James Anderson, Tom Bañados: composition • Claudia Barainsky: supervision of the singers • Rainer O. Brinkmann: coordination and conceptual assistance.