Peter Ablinger: THE ABSOLUTE ABSOLUTE
aus: "Instruments &"
4 Instrumentalisten, deren Sprechstimmen, Elektronik
2023/24
4 instrumentalists (glockenspiel, t-sax, e-guit, keyboard), their voices, electronics, ca. 20:00
Returns! Returns!
Reversal of reversal!
Skin outbreak! Skin outbreak!
You are the skin!
We are the skin!
Devolution! Devolution!
The switch is flipped!
The world will laugh!
Absolute! Absolute!
You are the comedy!
We are the comedy!
Turn around!
Round and round!
I will laugh!
I have laughed!
(from the speaker text, translation: N. Andrew Walsh)
listen, 0:41
(alternative player) the voice of Antonin Artaud in absolute distortion; detail from the middle section of "the absolute absolute". listen at ear-damaging volume!
listen, 1:02
(alternative player) "weight.one.hand", detail from 4-speaker section of "the absolute absolute"; rehearsal with 'Black Page Orchestra': Ruben Mattia Santorsa, Florian Fennes, Alfredo Ovalles, Igor Gross, Matthias Kranebitter
with thanks to Andrei Cucu and the Studio für Elektroakustische Musik at the Akademie der Künste Berlin