for the ensemble, audio-playback (featuring 360-degree spatial audio design), and video (2025)

music, video, 3D audio design by Monika Dalach Sayers

commissioned by DECODER Ensemble 

commission funded by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

spatialisation support by LIGETI Centre

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premiered at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg as part of 'Future Recognition' at the Hamburg International Music Festival on the 18th May 2025. 'Future Recognition' explored the possibilities of artificial intelligence in art.  All works created for this concert featured 360-degree spatial audio design.​

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About 'DRESSED TO KILL':

'DRESSED TO KILL' is the new multi-layered multimedia composition by Monika Dalach Sayers that combines music, text, performative actions, and video. The work spotlights the growing fast-fashion industry’s practices for rapid mass production of short-lived products to serve the human desire for abundance. The “take-use-bin” model encourages compulsive shopping and creates excessive wastefulness. The work examines our future trajectory borne from object fetishism in a fast-paced and dynamic performance using contemporary electronic textures blended with live instruments. The performance is immersed in playful, vivid imagery and catchy fashion slogans with abstract lighting while emulating the social media sensation of ‘unboxing’ videos.

More about the 'Future Recognition' concert at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: 

https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/decoder-ensemble/23106

Photos: Claudia Höhne

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