Peter Ablinger:
Jetzt
ein Stück für 1 Sprecher
Text: "JETZT"
sonst nichts
immer nur das Wort "JETZT"
mit unterschiedlichen Pausen
wasweißichwielang
1.2.96a piece for 1 speaker
text: "NOW"
nothing else
just always the word "NOW"
with different pauses
dontknowhowlong
2.1.96 (english-unedited)
compare:
'Griffa 1' - a forerunner of the piece
'Jetzt' is also part of:
Wider die Natur / Against Nature
a 'realtime' version of "Jetzt/Now/Aknoon" for many speakers in german and farsi
during an online workshop together with students and composers in Iran, December 2021
listen, 1:22
(alternative player)
other version, solo or in groups, had been performed in latvian ("Tagad"), norwegian ("Nå") and hungarian ("Most"), or, as a group of different nationalities in mixed languages