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m e r g e w o r d e n
Y e s i t ' s s u d d e n l y b
e c a m e w a r m e r
11. - 13. July 2003
Staatsbank Französische Strasse 35, Berlin-Mitte
with Boris Baltschun (electronics), Alessandro
Bosetti (soprano sax), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Fernanda Farah (voice),
Henrik Kairies (voice), Jo Stone (voice), Michael Hirsch (voice) Robin
Hayward (tuba)
by Steffi Weismann and Christian Kesten (artistic
directors)
Christian Kesten (composition), Steffi Weismann (stage/video)
Gunnar Brandt (sound), Dorothee Scheiffarth (costumes), Rainer Grönhagen
(lightdesign) Sabine Spillecke (production)
Duration: about 80 minutes
made possible by generous support
from Hauptstadtkulturfonds
a co-production of staatsbankberlin and Fernwärme
Daily communication often begins or ends
with a comment upon the weather. Reflecting a need to confirm personal
perceptions, these verbal articulations form a basis for this work's
musical and visual dialogues by playing with words and meanings, even
turning them into abstract forms.
Steffi Weismann created a small glass house for yes it's suddenly getting
warmer. Inside, the weather can be artificially created and communicated
to the audience's space outside via video projection and audio amplification.
Seven musicians/performers move, speak, and play inside and outside
of the cabin as the piece constantly changes - like the weather - from
simple to complex structures, continually creating new references to
what we see, hear, feel, and think.
Christian Kesten's "open score" provides rules to begin the
performer's process of actively interpreting its material. This includes
graphic musical notation that are actual weather diagrams and a composed
text that hovers between sound poetry and small talk. This text was
based upon a recorded group discussion about the possible technological
ways to influence the weather. The talk was mixed lingual - in German,
English and Portuguese - reflecting the internationality of the ensemble
and it's ways to communicate.
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