Irina Jasnowski Pascual, Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter welcome you to the terrace, a life-sized mechanized music box featuring performers for your pleasure. Become the fortuned aristocrats from a few centuries ago, who loved to be amused from time to time by performers like opera singers, violin players and actors to enlighten their evenings.

A sculptural performance presenting sculptures as actors, actors as sculptures, audience as extras and sculptures.

Written and directed by Irina Jasnowski Pascual in dialogue with Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter. 

The cast consists of seven performers, three opera singers (two inside pedestals, one seated amongst the audience) three receivers (performers equipped with microphones) and one camera person.

The receivers push the two Pedestal Singers in space while choosing what to amplify. Alongside the human actors are two sculptures by Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter from their 2019 Venice Biennale pavillion, Mondo Cane  alongside a group of  sculptures resembling a ventriloquist and two singers by Irina JP.

The main sonic components of the work are acapella versions of a Montiverdi duet and a Bach choral piece, three unsyncopated metronomes and live sound transmitted through the three miked performers. 

One performer wears a lavaliere headset through which she transmits guttural bodily sounds (breath, hiccup, grunts etc), the Pregnant performer has a contact microphone on her hand through which she transmits close-up sounds of the set (electric fans, clothing rubbing, opening soda cans and eating chips) and the third is equipped with a Boom Microphone with which he combs the space for sound,  allowing audience to experience the Doppler effect of his movement in proximity to the singers.

The script consists of 4 scenes that were executed within 30-40 minutes. The performance was active, looping from 2-5 pm with 15 minute breaks every hour.