Light from the Outside World

Budapest Spring Festival
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Light from the Outside World

Jeff Mills and the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda

The American Jeff Mills is one of today’s best-known and most innovative DJs, who also started to work with symphonic orchestras in recent years. He presented Light from the Outside World in 2012 at the Paris Salle Pleyel, and the project has since met with great success in Portugal, Belgium and Australia. At the Budapest concert, the Danubia Orchestra Óbuda will be directed by Christophe Mangou, the conductor of the Paris premiere.

One of the greatest stars of techno clubs, Jeff Mills came up with a unique project in 2000, composing a new musical score for Metropolis (1926), Fritz Lang’s cultic film. This monumental work effected a great breakthrough. It was wild, timeless and narrative in nature at the same time. It was shown at several places in the world, including the Paris Music Museum, the London Royal Albert Hall and the International Festival of Vienna.

It was at this time Mills started to explore a different sound, a different kind of musical dramaturgy. “Music always tells a story. Some we understand, some we don’t, and sometimes it all comes together only later,” which is one of the greatest adventures.


Jeff Mills : Light from the Outside World