New Vinyl Release ›Melencolic Medley‹

On 21 March, 2025, Ensemble Modern and Brigitta Muntendorf released the vinyl album ›MELENCOLIC MEDLEY‹ on Ensemble Modern Media. In 2022, the trans-digital musical theatre show ›MELENCOLIA – a Show against the Indifference of the Universe‹ celebrated its premiere at the Bregenz Festival, performed by Ensemble Modern. Now ›MELENCOLIC MEDLEY‹ is released – a post-digital medley based on the musical theatre show as a vinyl album that blends audio material from ›MELENCOLIA‹ with »sadness mediations« and »hopecores« by the media theorist Geert Lovink who performs his own spoken texts on the album. They point to »digital melancholy and try to countermand the colonization of our inner worlds«. Furthermore, Muntendorf adds, the release on vinyl is meant to »feel like an island of deceleration at a time when digital formats dominate our world«. Order the album now digitally or physically on Bandcamp or on our website.

›MELENCOLIC MEDLEY‹ is supported financially by the Kunststiftung NRW.