PILOT & SPIELE – be a pilot of your reality
PILOT & SPIELE is an experimental music theatre project by Gruppe MOMENT.
The piece combines live music, movement, performance and virtual reality. One person from the audience wears a VR headset and gains access to a hidden layer of the performance: they can influence musical processes, spatial distance, tempo, movement and reactions on stage. The other spectators witness the consequences without always knowing who has triggered them or why.
At the centre of the work is a simple but unsettling question: Who controls reality?
The audience does not simply participate. It becomes part of a system of decisions, reactions and consequences.
At the end, everyone receives a certificate as a “pilot of reality” — not because anyone has truly mastered reality, but because everyone has helped produce it.
PILOT & SPIELE is currently being developed for performances and workshops in 2026.
In PILOT & SPIELE, digital interaction is not used as a spectacle or technical effect. It becomes a theatrical instrument. A button is not just a command; it creates a chain of reactions. A small decision may change the musical density, the physical proximity of performers, the distribution of attention or the balance between individual and group.
The project draws on contemporary music theatre, improvisation, physical performance and game structures. It asks how power emerges from information, how agency is distributed, and how a collective responds when one person is given more control than everyone else.
The fairground is the visual and dramaturgical reference point: bumper cars, claw machines, gifts, games, crashes, rewards. But behind the playful surface lies a social mechanism. Who receives options? Who reacts? Who benefits? Who is watched? Who is allowed to steer?
Artistic team
- Cenk Ergün – Composition
- Anna Neubert / Ségolène de Beaufond– Violin / Performance
- Francesco Matejcek – Physical Theatre / Percussion
- Daniela Petry – Double Bass / Performance / Artistic Direction
- Roman Pilgrim / mxr Storytelling – VR Interface Concept
- Sonja Reischl – Urban Dance
- Esther Saladin – Cello / Performance
- Simon Rummel – Harmonium, Flutes, Voice, Performance
- Nora Krahl – Scenic Direction / Dramaturgical Advice