The textual material for the piece is the set of answers of an interview about the personal data of each of the performers, written and pronounced in their mother's tongue.
Each interview is then pronounced by all performers in as strictly as possible unison.
This means that for each of the texts all performers had to speak the same language and for that reason each of them had to make his own phonetic version of the texts in order to exercise the pronunciation.
By hearing the originally spoken text by earphone and at the same time reading the phonetic version of it, it is possible - after some days of rehearsal -to reproduce the original pronunciation in words as well as in pitch and intonation of the original speaker.
year
2012 2013
location
1.Trafacka Prague 2.Kunstraum Düsseldorf
performed by
1 Echoflux Prague 2012: Marcus Bergner AU Mojmir Pukl CZ José Pablo Estrada Torrescano MX Toine Horvers NL
2,Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2013: Antoine Beuger DE José Pablo Estrada Torrescano MX Cem Güney TR
curator
Prague: Dan Senn Düsseldorf: Antoine Beuger
further information
Unison is a musical phenomenon where one melody is performed in parallel by various instruments or voices. There is no harmonic second line and no hierarchy amongst the performers, which gives this music a contemplative and concentrated character.
One can say that unison is a positive form of de-personification which makes the sounds free and autonomous.
During the performance the performers are seated close to each other around a table with the audience around them.