we are #operEMIX
breaking the boundaries of the classical world and techno spaces alike.
coming from highly technical and proficient backgrounds, #opeREMIX is a poly-genre electro-techno opera-improvisation project, with a mezzo-soprano (Adanya Dunn) and a disruptive sound technologist (Adam John Williams) at the core of its musical voice.
oper = german word for “opera”
remix = a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item (thank you Wikipedia)
from classical music recitals to club / dance events, we reinvent the way traditional music is heard and new music is experienced. all lines are blurred. art is all that remains.
Watch & Listen
Elevation
Lua Descolorida - Remix
Adam John Williams is an award-winning multidisciplinary digital artist, multi-instrumental musician, electronic hardware hacker, designer, filmmaker, livecoder, DJ & VJ. Their works inhabit the overlapping areas between music, art, performance, 3D projection mapping, electronic hardware development, and creative computing.
Born & raised in Wales, after spending 7 years working & studying in London during which time they graduated from the London College of Music, they moved to Berlin in pursuit of a more creative, artistic & shamelessly hedonistic lifestyle.
Alumni of the 2015 CTM MusicMakers Hacklab, host of countless art & music themed hackathons around the globe, as well as founder of Macrodactyl Computer Club & the Berlin Musik Hackspace, Adam spends their time performing, organising events & producing media content.
When not working or partying, you’d likely find them producing artworks often themed around gender, sexuality, consciousness & intoxication which have been performed & exhibited in Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the Science Museum, Red Bull Music Academy, IRCAM Centre Pompidou and Hebbel Am Ufer, as well as featuring on Channel 4, ITV and BBC television.
Adanya Dunn / mezzo-soprano / vocalist / improviser / writer / poet / composer / painter / ex-figure skater / canoe fanatic / curator / collaborator / actress
Named one of Canada’s “Top 30 Under 30 Classical Musicians” in 2017 (CBC), Adanya Dunn is quickly gaining recognition as an operatic mezzo-soprano and avid interpreter of contemporary works.
As a creative vocalist, Adanya frequently collaborates and workshops with composers, dancers, visual artists, writers, and musicians of a variety of genres and disciplines, to create relevant and contemporary works. This passion for innovative and genre-bending projects led her to pursue roles as Resident Performer with the interdisciplinary arts collective FAWN Chamber Creative and the Co-Artistic Director of the chamber music series The Happenstancers.
Adanya is an alumna of the University of Toronto, Bard College Conservatory (New York), and the Glenn Gould School where she won a place in the 2016/2017 Rebanks Fellowship and International Residency program. She received further training from: Marilyn Horne’s Music Academy of the West (2014, 2015), Banff Centre (2018 – Residency with The International Contemporary Ensemble, 2016 – Residency with Against the Grain Theatre’s Opera in the 21st Century Program), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (2012), and the Israel Vocal Arts Institute (2018).
In 2015, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as part of The Song Continues and won a District Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The winner of numerous awards and scholarships, Adanya is a two-time recipient of the Long-Term Grant to Professional Musicians from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Her operatic roles include Carmen (Carmen), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), and Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro). She is currently based in Amsterdam.
Adanya Dunn / mezzo-soprano / vocalist / improviser / writer / poet / composer / painter / ex-figure skater / canoe fanatic / curator / collaborator / actress
Named one of Canada’s “Top 30 Under 30 Classical Musicians” in 2017 (CBC), Adanya Dunn is quickly gaining recognition as an operatic mezzo-soprano and avid interpreter of contemporary works.
As a creative vocalist, Adanya frequently collaborates and workshops with composers, dancers, visual artists, writers, and musicians of a variety of genres and disciplines, to create relevant and contemporary works. This passion for innovative and genre-bending projects led her to pursue roles as Resident Performer with the interdisciplinary arts collective FAWN Chamber Creative and the Co-Artistic Director of the chamber music series The Happenstancers.
Adanya is an alumna of the University of Toronto, Bard College Conservatory (New York), and the Glenn Gould School where she won a place in the 2016/2017 Rebanks Fellowship and International Residency program. She received further training from: Marilyn Horne’s Music Academy of the West (2014, 2015), Banff Centre (2018 – Residency with The International Contemporary Ensemble, 2016 – Residency with Against the Grain Theatre’s Opera in the 21st Century Program), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (2012), and the Israel Vocal Arts Institute (2018).
In 2015, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as part of The Song Continues and won a District Encouragement Award from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The winner of numerous awards and scholarships, Adanya is a two-time recipient of the Long-Term Grant to Professional Musicians from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Her operatic roles include Carmen (Carmen), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), and Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro). She is currently based in Amsterdam.
Guest Artists & Team
Kitt Andariel
manager
Blanche Israel
cello
Anna Kolosova
visual artist
Chris Lian-Lloyd
pianist
Amy Kazandjian
horn
Jonathan MacArthur
vocalist
Madlen Breckbill
viola
Isa Katarina
visual artist & poet
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Bookings, inquiries, questions, concerns. Bring it. Contact.
info [at] operemix [dot] com