This is a segment of sir o sir’s live performance for “Orlando,” a New Paradigm Opera, at Berlin’s Eden and Dock11 Studios.

The performative installation, combining video, architecture and live sound was choreographed by Swiss artist Julie Beauvais. It seeks inspiration in seven Orlandos, “embodying the post-binary new paradigm in Berlin, Kinshasa, Marfa, London, Varanasi, Lisboa, Chandolin, Patagonia and the North Sea.

Footage was captured by Horace Lundd.

Set designed by Sibylle Kössler, Wynd Van der Woude.

sir o sir is the (latest) alias of Famous Grapes co-founder Timothy Isherwood. An academically trained pipe-organist and pianist, Isherwood uses diverse sources, like resonators, experimental microphones, spatialized sound and synthesizers to navigate soundscapes at once summoned and subjective.