Ingredients for Disaster

Ingredients for Disaster offers a transformative cinematic experience, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the spellbinding world of one of contemporary music's most visionary talents. This film blends live performances - at some of the world’s most prestigious venues - stunning visuals, insightful interviews, and mind-blowing computer graphics to immerse audiences in Ronin’s three-dimensional music. The film explores the evolution of modern music, highlighting how pioneers of minimalism, serialism, and the avant-garde paved the way for greater musical freedom. It showcases how Bärtsch, inspired by a diverse range of influences - from The Meters to John Cage, Thelonious Monk to Igor Stravinsky - has crafted a unique blend of music that defies categorization. His band, Ronin, all master craftsmen, weave layers of rhythm, melody, and texture together into a trance-inducing musical space, attracting a diverse fanbase drawn from the worlds of Jazz and Techno and everything in between.