Kinderlied (2014)

2-track audio

Duration: 25'

Performance:

• Chamber Music Hall of the University of Music Freiburg i. Br. | June 15, 2014
• Musik für Lautsprecher (Concert of electroacoustic music from Iran) | Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe | December 5, 2023

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This composition follows the tradition of speech compositions. Electronic transformations and distortions 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 it becomes pure sound. In this way, the simple act of whispering itself becomes a sound transformer. The text used comes from the German children's song 'Hänschen klein.'