KINDERLIED (2014)

Mono audio composition

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• Musik für Lautsprecher (Concert of electroacoustic music from Iran) | Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe | December 5, 2023
• Circuit Fantôme Season 5 | Floating Sound Gallery Vienna, Kulturverein Vronihof, Vienna | May 30, 2025

This piece follows the tradition of speech compositions. Digital transformations of sound were deliberately avoided in this work to maintain focus on the unaltered speech material. By layering whispered text, new layers of language emerge. Consonants and sibilants take on a life of their own, and new structures appear. The meaning fades, the language loses its expressive power, and becomes pure sound. Here, the simple act of whispering itself becomes a sound transformer.

The text used is the German children's song 'Hänschen klein.'

Voice: Marlene Behrmann