Hive Rise
Photos by Clifford Prince King
In this performance installation, The Geffen Warehouse is transformed into collective listening zones that are activated by human voices, subaudible subwoofers, architectural resonances, and psychoacoustic beats. Fure plays live on a rig of speaker cones that pulsate the air. And 14 performers with 3D-printed megaphones flock in formations throughout the crowd, modeling cooperation and sending slivers of white noise straight to the skin.
2021 - at Presented by MOCA LA / Geffen Warehouse and The Industry Opera
Co-created by Ash Fure and LILLETH
Produced by The Industry
Composition and music direction – Ash Fure
Direction and choreography – LILLETH
Scenic architecture – Laida 'Xavi' Aguirre / stock-a-studio
Costume design – Carlos Soto
Lighting design – Kelley Shih
Video design – Hana S. Kim
Sound design – Derek Williams
Dramaturgy - edxi
Stage Manager – Morgan Johnson
Costume Associate – Parisjoy Jennings
Scenic Associate – Delaney McCraney
Connection coordinator — Rad Pereira
Performers – Eliza Bagg, Jay Carlon, Destefano DeLuise, Ash Fure, jeremy guyton, Kasper, Kelci Hahn, Joanna Lynn-Jacobs , Sharon Chohi Kim, Jasmine Nyende, Rayne Raney , Tianna Nicole, Davia Spain, Kalean Ung, Taylor Unwin
Executive Producer - Elizabeth Cline, The Industry
Organized by – Alex Sloane, MOCA Associate Curator of Performance and Programs
Megaphones – Matter Design, MIT
Visual Identity and Graphics – ALL PURPOSE
Communications – Sounding Point, for The Industry
HIVE RISE is presented in L-ISA Immersive Sound technology by L-Acoustics
Curated and Produced by Dahlia Borsch
Entering Berghain is like accessing another sphere of perception. With "Hive Rise," Ashley Fure and LILLETH dig into this site-specific terrain with a cast of ten performers wielding custom 3D-printed megaphones.
More posthuman perceptual appendage than tool, these curved cones both amplify and directionally focus each vector of sound, sending slivers of white noise and psychoacoustic beats straight to the skin of the crowd. Fure anchors the pulse of the piece by performing live on a kit of subaudible subwoofers she treats like kinetic drumheads. Combined with the force of the Funktion 1 soundsystem, "Hive Rise" fronts a multidimensional cyberfeminist take on the sonic, social, spatial, and participatory prospects of Berghain.
Created by Ash Fure and LILLETH
Composed by Ash Fure
Directed by LILLETH
Scenography by stock-a-studio
Megaphones by Matter Design
Lights by Kelley Shih
Pre-show Sound by Daniela Huerta (hybrid set)