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

concept, composition, video, direction, 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 spotlights the fast-fashion industry’s cycle of rapid production and short-lived consumption. Built on the “take–use–bin” model, where desire is manufactured, worn briefly, and discarded, encourages compulsive buying and growing waste. Blending electronic textures, live instruments, performative elements, and vivid imagery, the piece explores our obsession with fashion and objects through a fast-paced and dynamic performance inspired by noisy, polluted soundscapes, ASMR, and the seductive language of advertising.​

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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