Eight spotsInstrumentation: for twelve singers/actors(esses), one percussionist, three chickens and objects
The spots can also be performed separately:
- O miseria umana (1997)
for vocal ensemble, 2 keyboards and objects, ca 8'
Staging of the sketch 12698 recto by Leonardo da Vinci. "Ihr elenden Menschen, wie vieler Dinge wegen macht Ihr Euch dem Geld zum Sklaven!"
- Orte der Zeit I ("aus der Heimat hinter den Blitzen rot")(1997)
for 3 actors/actresses who walk backwards in phases from right to left during which time, also in phases, a poem is recited back to front, ca 5'
- Orte der Zeit II (ex libris) (1997)
for 5 actors/actresses and 5 small tables, on each table an ancient book that "breathes" quietly, ca 4-5'
- "Ah! Vous voilà!" (1994-96)
for 2 men and 2 women, ca 10'
Four figures from Classical Modern theatrical pieces act upon the stage:
soprano: Isabelle from "L´ínvitation au château" by Jean Anouilh
alto: Inès from "Huis clos" by Jean-Paul Sartre
tenor: Hugo from "Les mains sales" by Jean-Paul Sartre
bass: Ravier from "Celles que l´on prend dans ses bras" by Henry de Montherlant
- L´être et le néant (Bitte Ruhe) (1997)
three chickens, guardian, violin ca 7'
- O me nura (1997)
for singers, 2 keyboards, life-size puppets and cassette player in a dark, dismal picture with dark music, ca 5'
"O me nura,wo fjeh mo seh, e tura lemo tuini…." (Alois Dallmayr, as spirit of the truth interned. Upper Bavarian sanatorium Elfing. House 19/1. Elfing
- Estelle + D.R. (Pendel) (1997),
5 life-size puppets and a cassette player, ca 7'
- Happy Hour (1996)
for 11 singers, speakers (= party guests), a waiter and a percussionist (=barkeeper), 20'
The actions of the party guests are as phonetic as they are gestural and divided into 150 phases. Pauses are inserted between these phases, within which the final state of the preceding phase remains frozen. The process is comparable to the technique of successive forwarding from frozen image to frozen image found in video editing. From a base pulse of MM 56 the movement phase lasts one unit, the pause 6 units. The only one who does not comply with this base rhythm is the barkeeper; he mixes drinks based on other principles.
Duration: 60' 00"
G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH