Diese Zeiten sind vorbei...
experimental music theatre with actants, percussion and ensemble (2019)
For once a few words, because there is a game: there are bowls and skittles, a room, four lanes, maybe there is drinking, maybe not. One will certainly win, one will certainly lose, that's the way it is at times in the game, and when the round is over, it's over. Or not?
Time remains now, times are plural.
This piece has been inspired to some extent by the ghost train principle, evoking a kind of surreal level, taking up elements from the past of the historical location in order to reproduce them in massively fragmented and accentuatedly out of place - overwound. Voices, percussion, actants and an ensemble play a role, while the audience performs the roundabout part.
Diese Zeiten sind vorbei... was realized in an abandoned skittle alley.
Percussion: Rie Watanabe
Speakers: Klaus Henner Russius, Barblina Meierhans
Ensemble Garage: Frank Riedel, Till Künkler, Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg, Yuka Ohta, Neus Estarellas Calderón
Wooden actants: Ralph Hauswirth
Technics, installation and constructions: Markus Oppenländer
Sound engineering and recording: Paddy Both
Mixing and mastering: Wolfgang Ellers
Composition and installation: Barblina Meierhans
From 10 to 12 April 2019 as part of the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Witten, Germany
