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Sσɳɠʂ σϝ CყႦσɾɠҽσιʂιҽ is a multimedia world-building project by Alexander Sahm and allapopp, which has been bringing the CყႦσɾɠҽσιʂιҽ universe to life and expanding it in various formats since 2020. Sσɳɠʂ σϝ CყႦσɾɠҽσιʂιҽ is an interactive musical journey and sci-fi opera in a form of a music album, a PC gaming experience, a tarot card deck and a music show with live motion capture.

SONGS OF CYBORGEOISIE MULTIPLAYER / HYBRID LIVE SHOW 2023, Hybrid music show, multiplayer gaming, motion capture, 80 min

Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp / concept, direction: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / Costumes, stage design: Sarah Ama Duah / Production assistance: Sarah Wenzinger / Technical direction, multiplayer, motion capture: Gloria Schulz / Game visual: Lixing Yang, Simon Klein / UI, visual identity: Teresa Schönherr / Character design: allapopp, Valentin Oellers, Lars Thomas / Character animation: Simon Klein, Gloria Schulz

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SONGS OF CYBORGEOISIE COMPUTER GAMING EXPERIENCE / SOUNDTRACK

2023, Music, PC Game, 60 min

Computer gaming experience evolves in the course of the 12 levels and corresponding album songs with rich and complex textures, composed with elements of polyphonic spoken word, generative sounds, a choir, acoustic instruments and a mixture of soft and rough electronic music. This game is an exploration of storylines and subjective perspectives of the sad Queer Feminist AI, aggressive BigDog, Narcissistic Algorithm, depressed Hologram and other characters, who tell of their sorrows, traumas, and hopes about feminist and tech-positive futures.

Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp / concept, direction: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / Game visual & world design: Lixing Yang / Unreal Engine implementation and technical direction: Simon Klein / UI, visual identity, menu design: Teresa Schönherr / Character design: allapopp, Valentin Oellers, Lars Thomas / Character animation: Simon Klein, Gloria Schulz

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BBB_ SONGS OF CYBORGEOISIE (2023) Listen: 🔗 SPOTIFY 💿 BANDCAMP

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CHARACTERS & WORLD-BUILDING

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CYBORGEOISIE TAROT DECK ☆彡.｡.:*☆

The CყႦσɾɠҽσιʂιҽ Tarot deck - an official physical extension of the computer game and the music album BBB_ Sσɳɠʂ σϝ CყႦσɾɠҽσιʂιҽ. Rooted in the conventional tarot deck, Cyborgeoisie Tarot is a conceptual and speculative divination system of its own. It is composed of 78 cards: 22 general arcana and 56 narrow arcana.  The general arcana cards represent the archetypal synergies and overarching influences that pervade the realm of Cyborgeoisie. The narrow arcana cards, which interweave and interconnect the central themes inherent to the Cyborgeoisie Universe, are assembled into four suites, titled Other Intelligences Suit, Technology Suit, Co-Existence Suit, and The Earth Suit.  🔗 GET YOUR TAROT DECK 🔗 INTEPRETATIONS GUIDE

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𝕯𝖞𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖎𝖆

Music and performance, 40 min, 2019

Electronic rock-opera and irrationally narrated dystopian tale about a human journey into the Dark Age of fear. Since decades future visions in a form of science fiction narratives offer us not more than a permanent struggle of the good over the evil, whether this evil is technology or the humans themselves. Entertainment became an inevitable part of our lives, but if most of these stories picture a future where everything we know comes to a collapse and there is no alternative, what kind of perception of the world tomorrow are we mediating the younger generations? Does the fear-propaganda, as a side-effect of capitalism, create a real threat to our future?

Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp / Concept: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / Make Up & Hair: Alina White, Tanja Tverdokhlebova, Ksti Hu / Costume: Tanja Tverdokhlebova, Hanel Lee / Installation: Marco Poblete (kressmanhalle), YRD Works (saasfee) / Merch design: Sargon Khinoev 

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HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES FOR OVERSEAS 2020, Installation, Music, Visuals, 20 min Concept: Alexander Sahm, Un-Zu Ha-Nul Lee / Installation: Un-Zu Ha-Nul Lee / music, sound design: Alexander Sahm / Visual: Lixing Yang

Media is not sexy glamorous pictures in screen; media is hard-labor-relations, mining companies, it’s wars, it is corpses, the devastation of modernity.

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BABY OF CONTROL: OPERA OFFENBACH TOUR 2018, music theatre, 90 min Music theatre show in collaboration with the Baby of Control collective. Direction, production: Baby of Control / live music mixing, sound effects: Alexander Sahm / Performance: Marco Russo, Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Lena Bakonalim, Alexander Sahm, and many more.

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FULLY ACCESSIBLE BODY

Fully Accessible Body is a performance series created by allapopp & Alexander Sahm where they employ holograms and heartbeat sensors. It is a research on emotional communication with algorithms and on a live music performance experience where the presence of performers is not necessary.

In various phases this research has been a participatory performance event in which intimate experiences are generated through technology based on the audience’s biofeedback. The music, holographic bodies and their movements are generated algorithmically, based on the audience’s pulse/heartbeat rate, or better say - are feelings-based. The performance depends completely on the audience and does not take place without their individual BPM rates. 

The project raises questions like: What makes a live-show experience so unique and special? How can we quantify and qualify feelings? How does an exchange between spectators and performers work? What does it feel like to be a digital popstar and how are they and their avatars paid? Do digital divide and certain experiences in digital technology influence the perception of the show? How can artists extend own physical capacities to do their beloved but underpaid work and still be able to create for the audience an immersive live-show with the help of various digital tools available on the consumer market?

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FULLY ACCESSIBLE BODY : THE PRIVATE SHOW

2018, generative music, augmented reality, room installation, AI chat Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp / Concept: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / Programming: Janna-Sophie Gaede, Fabian Schröder 

The Private Show explores the idea of a permanent accessibility of a hologram-performer, who is giving an exclusive, bio-feedback based live show to the viewer. It is presented in a Show Room, designed as bedroom. Here audience can test a prototype product called The Private Show: futuristic live experience by BBB_ in a private situation. The Product consists of augmented reality glasses, pulse sensor and wireless headphones. The Private Show focuses on intimate, personal experience of the spectator, their emotional perception of a show and potential of such experience for the home entertainment market.

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FULLY ACCESSIBLE BODY : REAL BODIES 2018, Music and Performance, Augmented Reality, 180 min Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp / Concept: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / human performers: Anja Arncken, Mar Valverde, Dominik Keggenhoff, Hannah Müller, Sham Saifuddin / Programming: Janna-Sophie Gaede, Fabian Schröder / Visuals: Obby & Japparii, Pia Graf 

Interactive live show which explores the empowerment of digital bodies in an interlude of the audience, human performers and interactive cyber avatars. Core tools in this project are HoloLens glasses and customized pulse sensors, through which 3D body-scans of Alla and Alex perform as holograms for the audience in an interactive way. The HoloLens receives bio-feedback of the person wearing a sensor in a form of an individual pulse rate, which algorithmically influences the movements of the holograms.

The algorithmically generated music, on a collective level, stays in a continuous feedback loop between all measured emotions of the audience and the collectively created room atmosphere. 

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FULLY ACCESSIBLE BODY : KARAOKE TV WITH HOLOGRAM-POPSTARS 2018, Performance, interactive visuals, AI chat, 70 min Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp, various / concept: allapopp, Alexander Sahm / Programming: Janna-Sophie Gaede, Fabian Schröder  In contrast to The Private Show, this format aims at exploring the group dynamics in the audience, while Hologram Popstars are performing on stage, visible to all audience members simultaneously. The show is moderated by hologram avatars in an ASMR style and audience is offered to come on stage and sing a karaoke song. Hologram’s dancing and sound effects are influenced by the singers pulse rate. During the whole show the audience has an opportunity to intimately interact with the holograms via an AI chat. At the end of the event the Hologram Popstar’s first single You Are What You Feel is released.

Additionally to development of the Hologram Popstars a variety of merchandise items like Dildo of Alex, Dildo of Alla and A Fleece Blanket are offered, as well as the possibility to have a personal chat with your Hologramm Popstar via an AI chat.

🔗 BBB_ Dildo *** ASMR unboxing #1

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ID RATHER BE AN IPHONE

In this project BBB_ conveys on the position of the human in the world of trans- & posthumanist thought, body and mind enhancement techniques, AI and its emotionality and irrationality, biotechnology, robotics, and the dystopian philosophy of the future that already happened. This story told over cross-media, includes a live show, music album released with an interactive 40-pages booklet and a series of conceptual music videos.

2017, Music and Performance, Visuals, 40 min Music: Alexander Sahm, allapopp Artistic direction, concept: allapopp, Alexander Sahm 3D & Visuals Design: Manuel Rossner, Valentin Oellers, Alexandar Radan, Jascha Bernhard, allapopp Costume Design: Deike Schwarz, Stephan Ide, Sarah Ama Dua Choreography: Ayla Pierrot Arendt Interactive lights & visuals programming: Karl Kliem  Merch design: Stephan Ide

In this multi-layered performance artists mediate their visions with live-synthesized voices, an emoji, visual poetry, fashion, their intense physical presence and conceptual lyrics spoken over rough electronic pop music, performed in a club/concert format.

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