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2024
Alto
Bass
Soprano
Tenor
- Program Notes
- L'APPEL DU VIDE - COMPOSITION: Peer Baierlein, TEXT: Franziska vom Heede, singers: Voktett ------- "L'appel du Vide" was created based on a text by Kleist Prize winner Franziska vom Heede. The darkness/nocturne stands for the climate catastrophe, for the world war, for the end of the world, for the end. Just as night ends the day. But what if the night is followed by a new day? An awakening from the darkness, because the expected end of the world has not materialized for the time being. Instead, the night has left its mark on the awakening. The composition begins with this new day after the end of the world, averted at the last moment. A collection of voices woke up dead today. They are the rubble – individual Styrofoam pearls. The words “Ich” and “atme” (as becoming aware of not being dead) slowly emerge. In several stages, chanting transitions into increasingly concrete music, harmonies and melodies. The ruins sing against the insignificance of each individual and form as a choir in order to catapult themselves upwards, to experience rebirth in a state of intoxication without having been dead. After the near-catastrophe and its survival, there is a struggle from the depths (“In Vacuo”) to the heights (“In Excelsis”). The author came up with the psychological and very sensual phenomenon “L'appel du vide”. It is the so-called “call of the void”, the feeling or thought of wanting to jump into the depths when you are in high places (cliffs, skyscrapers, bridges). People who are more sensitive to fear-related body signals are more susceptible to the “high place phenomenon”. This means that a body that is sensitive to heart palpitations and dizziness switches to flight mode at the slightest prospect of danger and then incorrectly interprets these signals as jumping thoughts - a misunderstanding. The desire to jump into the depths is not a death wish - on the contrary: it shows an increased will to survive. Words of movement and moving singers symbolize the metamorphosis from awakening to the longed-for leap.
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- Voktett
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