VERGEHEN (PASSING) is an opera that you walk.
Simply download the VERGEHEN app to your smartphone,
take your headphones (maybe smaller ones)
and come here to the Munich river Isar,
in the park below the Maximilianeum.
The VERGEHEN app is available directly
in the Android and iOS App Stores.
The easiest way is to follow the links
on the website www.vergehen.net.
Hello, I am Mathis Nitschke
and I composed the interactive audio walk VERGEHEN.
When you start the app,
the voice of singer Sarah Aristidou
and cellist Anja Lechner
will lead you to the beginning of the path.
Arrived on the actual way,
you stroll at your own pace.
The app shortens and lengthens the music sections
so that it always matches the location you're at.
For that is the secret of this music theatre:
both the text and the music
were invented for this specific path.
VERGEHEN uses the scenery
of the Munich Isar as stage design.
It transforms the public space
into an artistic space
and lets you experience the familiar
in a new way.
And what's it about?
At the beginning I asked myself:
what would it be like
when you go for a walk with your smartphone,
this rather strange,
personal,
and sometimes very intimate companion.
What do we tell each other?
What's it talking about,
and with what voice?
Listen to how it sounds.
And by the way:
You can walk VERGEHEN
on any day at any time
and, as you can see,
in any weather.
Have fun!