CITTA UTOPICA offers the audience a sojourn in a parallel world whose form we only know from amusement parks and which has its origin in real situations such as the refinery and through the unique tension and relationships arising between reality, the image and the model. On the musical level, Burkhard Friedrich initially seizes upon this mixture of forces with pure electronic means that are then interwoven into the live performance, at times offset, at times occurring far apart from each other in space ("projected"), so that the live performance is indiscernible from the produced music: The music becomes an image of itself, just as the contents of the projections are a model of their reality. The components of projection, production and live events form a utopian world. ...