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SONNTAG, 23. July 2006, 23:05. - 0:00, Ö1

KUNSTRADIO - RADIOKUNST



 

 

ALPHAZART
Mozart and Alpha Versions

Sabine Hassinger, Liesl Ujvary

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Alphazart is the story of an encounter in which opposing witnesses of the times move towards each other. At one extreme lies the beautiful, conservative art of classical music, and at the other, an embodiment of the New – electronic music and contemporary sound processing. Mozart’s Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello in C minor (KV 617) represents one direction; the potential of electronics stands for the other.

The authors present and counteract the spectrum of tension in various ways. Sabine Hassinger employs ancient instruments and her voice as a sound body, while Liesl Ujvary filters, warps and samples Mozart, composing a sound panorama from sinus tones that promise a different sonority. Using fragments of text both authors make references to the situation, this set of polarities, including those such as classical vs. electronic, technology vs. nature, high culture vs. urban technologies; consciousness – fear – amalgamation – death; text – sound – voice – music.

The wafer-thin tones of Mozart’s glass harmonica, a piece he composed when the grim reaper had long been an intimate acquaintance of his, the existential escalation of the fragments of text and of the electronic bodies of sound together create a broad chamber of resonance.

Alphazart alludes to a tense system of values, dichotomies, which interconnect and entwine our world and our civilisation. With the aid of sound art, it amounts to an acoustic essay that speaks of what we feel, think and perceive when we hear.



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