sahne, sahne (für 3 Lautsprecher und Stereozuspiel) 2010
familie/family: sahne - sahne sahne, sahne (für 3 panflöten und kassettenspieler)
" Ein Gourmet sagte mir: Was die Crème der Gesellschaft angehe, so sei ihm der Abschaum der Gesellschaft lieber." ("A gourmet once told me that he preferred the scum of the earth to the cream of society")- Karl Kraus, Aphorismen
Originally, the piece was ment to be for three panflutes and a cassette-recorder, imitating the setup of so called "indio-groups" who perform in shopping-malls etc..
This idea seemed then to be too concrete to me so that I decided to recompose it for three loudspeakers with stereo-tape. The three loudspeakers are used as instruments (in a partly counterpoint-manner) and have therefore no artificial (elecctro-acoustical) room in itself but are speakers as instruments in a room. The sound occurs to be flat, but in the ensemble we have a concrete relation to the concrete room, where the piece takes place. In the hall, the stereo-tape would be played by the two frontspeakers, while the three soloist-speakers are on the left and right to the audience and one in the rear.
I also used a "flat" midi-triggered sound for the three soloists to keep the concept on different levels. The form itself was held rather simple: while the tape starts with very concrete material (cassette-recorder sounds and later quotations from panflute music) which gets more and more distorted and transformed towards the end. The three speakers start with a soundscape-texture and get more and more concrete in the sense of being instruments that play written music in a 5-line system.
"sahne" means cream and is, in the title, partly a trap but is also meant in the sense of cream i.e. on a cake: it seems to be the crown of the whole dish but as a single object it is rather disgusting. in society, to me, this is a superficial kind of culture, like the pseudo-indian music-groups but is also questioning the piece itself about its staying-on-the-surface and decadency.
The third interpretation of cream would be the range of possibilites, how cream can appear: whipped, liquid, in desert and main dishes, soups, sauce as well as in cocktails.