Programme notes:

Tereza Jaďuďová (b. 2001)
animal farm
Created in 2024

Inspired by George Orwell’s Animal Farm, this electroacoustic composition reimagines the allegory in a dystopian future. Using a palette of ordinary—and extraordinary—sounds recorded from daily life, later transformed through digital editing, Jaďuďová constructs a sound world that parallels Orwell’s cautionary tale.

Layered textures of mechanical noise, environmental recordings, and manipulated timbres create shifting atmospheres of control, revolt, and decay. The sonic landscape evolves from moments of deceptive calm to dense, chaotic clusters, mirroring the collapse of ideals into authoritarian reality.

To complete the experience, images generated by artificial intelligence accompany the composition, visually extending its dystopian vision.

Premiere:

24/05/2024, Bratislava (Slovakia), A4. 

ORFEUS ELECTROACOUSTIC 2023