Reclaim Music.
About Us:
We don’t break boundaries. We refuse to acknowledge them to begin with.
1781 is a collective of interdisciplinary musicians, frustrated with an industry that has lost its way. It aims to rediscover what makes music and performance great, and offer a new system to those disenfranchised by existing, traditional models. 1781 brings together like minded performers and organisations, and presents musical art in raw, passionate, and experimental forms.
Projects
LABYRINTH: The Cabinet of Curiosities
A Micro-Festival of Music, Theatre, and Dance - seven editions since 2020 including IV. Metamorphosis (2021), V. Melancholia (2023), and VI. The Rites of Spring (2025). A new model each time, LABYRINTH #6 featured 35 performers, and was entirely funded by ticket sales.
Choose Your Own Operadventure
Commissioned for Garbicz Festival 2024 - an electronic music and dance festival in Poland run by Bachstelzen (Holzmarkt, Kater Blau), the Choose Your Own Operadventure is a truly interactive concert experience inspired by those books we read as children, where the audience decides where the plot of the story goes.
MYSTERIUM: Enter the Void
A theatrical experience developed from the script of the 2024 Opening Ceremony for Per Anhalter Festival. A metaphysical journey through the VOID as it pertained to ancient traditions, inspired by the (syn)aesthetic design of Aleksandr Scriabin’s ultimate work, Mysterium.
Adam Goodwin - LABYRINTH: The Cabinet of Curiosities
Why ‘1781’?
8th June, 1781, W.A. Mozart, then employed as the court organist of Count Hieronymous Colloredo, Archbishop of Salzburg, packed his bags and left for Vienna - saying auf wiedersehen to the controlling and limiting employ the traditional system had given him, and making out for a life as a freelance composer and performer.
The concept of Mozart saying ‘Leck mich am arsch’ to a system that undervalued his skills resonated with us when forming our beliefs and desires for the 1781 Collective. In homage to a person who had enough of the system, we named ourselves as such.
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