A taste of Mega Monster Battle Arena’s music

In 2009, we were involved with one of the 11kernenoperas pro­duced by Dario Fo for the fifth anniver­sary of the West­land munic­i­pal­i­ty. The result was Mega Mon­ster Bat­tle Are­na™, a mix between a game and con­tem­po­rary music the­atre for youth. The music was writ­ten by Daniël Ham­burg­er, who also per­formed it live at the shows with an awe­some band. One of the nicest things about this col­lab­o­ra­tion was that we worked out a sys­tem for live adap­tive music to accom­pa­ny the game scenes (which were per­formed accord­ing to rules, not a script). Here’s a video of a reprise of a part of the opera. It does­n’t show any of the actu­al game, but it does give you a good sense of what the music and the over­all per­for­mance was like. Enjoy.