Alles, was der Fall
for alto flute, contrabass clarinet, percussion, violin, cello and a few things (2016)
I let eighteen coincidental things, that have been gathered together, fall at five
different points in the room. One after the other, but in a random
sequence. The fall in itself can barely be described, I observe it. The
impact with the floor somehow appears to separate itself into three
forms: some things remain lying in one place and position, some things
bounce and jump on again, some break and smash into pieces spreading
themselves. The acoustic results are diverse and never repeat
themselves, too diverse for categories, but an order is created of the
relationship of the eighteen things to one another, precisely as a
result of the touchdown which is created anew and different after each
fall. The only constant remaining is the rate of acceleration, which,
precisely for its constancy, escapes our perceptions. What
remains to us are the descents. They fall down, unnoticed, but how do
these relate to their impact? They crash in our ears, even there, where
hearing begins. Soundwaves crash unceasingly on our two hidden
interfaces. When silence or nothing occurs, does something occur to us?
Or where does composing begin? And, above all, when? And in the case
when it just does not succeed, does it occur to us or not? The touch
down is the beginning, or even collapse. Does it fall in, in here?
Alles, was der Fall concerns
itself with the coincidences and contingencies of an arrangement and
attempts to make audible the moment of a descent in all its
impossibilities.
22 May 2016, WP, New Talents Biennale Cologne, Kunststation St.Peter, Cologne, Germany
hand werk
2 April 2017, Festival Archipel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
prötön (ensemble proton & ensemble ö)
13 January 2019, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Dresden, Germany
ensemble courage
17 March 2022, aspekteSALZBURG - Festival für Musik unserer Zeit, Szene, Salzburg, Austria
NAMES - New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg
