Audiovisual performance
Live visuals

Dix meets Bix — Resampling Otto Dix’s Großstadt (1928) into an audiovisual jazz performance.





Commissioned by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Bix Jazzclub, the 90-minute performance blends live jazz inspired by Bix Beiderbecke, a favorite in Dix’s own studio, with contemporary 3D animation.

By deconstructing and reassembling the triptych's iconic figures into fragile, twisting sculptures, the real-time visuals honor the painter's brilliant tension between beauty and ugliness, capturing the restless energy of the original work.







2022
60 min live performance (7 shows)
Projection on translucent mesh

Art direction and shading: Samuel Lewek
Sculpting and texturing: Rebecca Zahor
Animation: Samuel Lewek
Touchdesigner setup: Rebecca Zahor
Animation support: Leon Monschauer, Tatjana Theuer and Chantale Eglin
Making of trailer: Chantale Eglin

Composition and musical direction: Nicolas Buvat
Musicians: Nicolas Buvat (double bass), Samuel Restle (trombone), Elias Kiefer (piano) and Felix Eckenfelder (percussion)

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart: Christian Bornefeld
BIX Jazzclub: David Wilcke

Thanks to Mini Schulz, Arndt Wirth, Holger Fleck, Bernd-Siegfried Michalek, Aline Müller, Michael Müller, as well as the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and BIX Jazzclub for making this project possible!

A production by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart & the BIX Jazzclub.

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