World premiere

Gagi Petrovic is a composer, performer, producer, and music teacher whose work focuses around contemporary composition, digital electronics, interactive technology, and alternative pop. Modelo62 is a contemporary music ensemble who work in collaboration with young and established composers and artists from a variety of disciplines. Together they present the premiere of Pay to Destroy. Heralded as “an activistic concert,” in Pay to Destroy, the audience members’ behaviour influences the musical output. Listeners are invited to partake as “agents of pollution,” whose interaction with the work through imagined transactions irreversibly alters its musical patterns – either polluting the composition to achieve comfort or sacrificing comfort to heal it. To reflect the concept of generational responsibility, the work stores and remembers the choices of the audience so that future performances of the piece carry with it these decisions. Tackling the issue of pollution and the effects of global capitalism on the Earth’s environment, the work seeks to offer a confrontational yet thought-provoking mirror through which the audience can gaze upon their consumerist behaviour and its potential outcomes.

Concept, Composition, Live Electronics, Personal Voice: Gagi Petrovic
Conductor: Ezequiel Menalled
Alto Flute: Jana Machalett
Bass Clarinet: Jorge  Lopez Garcia
Trumpet, Info Voice: Chloë Abbott
Percussion: Klara van de Ketterij
MIDI Keyboard: Akane Takada
Electric Guitar: Santiago Lascurain
Violin: Roberto Rutkauskas  
Cello: Jan Willem Troost
Contrabass: Vasilis Stefanopoulos