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Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka
by Igor Stromajer, 1998/99
 
- created and performed by Igor Stromajer - intima.org (singing HTML and Java in English and Slovenian language)
- performed live at SeaFair - Skopje Museum for Contemporary Art, Macedonia, 1998; Transmediale, Cultural Center Podewill Berlin, Germany, 1999 and Opera SNG Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1999
- audio recorded live on Thursday, March 18th, 1999 in Opera and Ballet of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana by Borut Savski - ministry:of:x-periment
- broadcasted live on Radio Student Ljubljana (Thursday, March 18th, 1999)
- produced by Anatom, 1999; co-produced by Intima Virtual Base and Kapelica Gallery
- supported by Municipality of Ljubljana
- photo by Igor Delorenzo Omahen, video by Jurij V. Krpan
- special thanks to Bojana Kunst, Natasa Kos, Borut Smrekar
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"Igor Stromajer’s piece Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka stutters and flickers into life. What sounds like a troublesome fluctuation, soon becomes the snickering and muttering of some distant voice which - for this listener - evoked the soundtrack to one of David Lynch’s early student films (probably The Grandmother). It then dives into silence and emerges with a blast of sound. As the name suggests, this operatic piece, weighing in at 38 minutes and 14 seconds, is a journey of prog-rock proportions. Technically, more about the mixing desk and composition than some other pieces, this blends in voice-overs explaining the process of nuclear fission and a distant voice speaking in what may be Latin. Then a dance beat breaks in, fades. And on it goes, voices mixing in and being manipulated along with the crackle and fizz of electronica."
# (Mark R. Hancock, Furtherfield Review, 2005)
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"But beware: Igor Stromajer is also singing the theory of the Internet!"
# (Inke Arns, 2000)
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Igor Štromajer Virtualna baza Intima Igor Štromajer Intima Virtual Base Oppera Internettikka
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