"We have gathered here today" is a multimedia music-theatre performance rooted in gathering, expecting, presenting, projecting, waiting, and identifying. Who is this performer? Who is this audience? Why did [they] sit in [that] seat and not [that] one?

Exploding the framework of a cello recital which may or may not ever begin, its performer veers freely into psychological monologues, small talk, social media meditations, and data exhaustion. Sliding freely between the ordinary and the abstract, "we have gathered here today" playfully probes the social/systemic barriers and bridges involved in being your self, and in being strangers, here, together.

Created by Wilson Tanner Smith and Lucas Xerxes
Performance: Wilson Tanner Smith
Live Electronics: Viktor Toikkanen

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Presented as part of the 2025 Ung Nordisk Musik Festival in Helsinki

Tickets: https://fienta.com/fi/s/unm-quick-touch-up