Hans Tutschku

codification-memory


soprano, percussion, nine instruments and live-electronics
year: 2016
duration: 22:00 min
studio: Harvard University
first performance: March 04, 2017 by Charlotte Mundy and the Talea Ensemble New York , Fromm Players Festival, Harvard University


Several of my works deal with our multi-faceted abilities to access memories. The change in our social and political reality during the past years has sharpened our awareness concerning valued memories and the NOW.
Codification – memory shapes this subject matter from two opposing sources and viewpoints. There is Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Abend from 1904, acting as a lost jewel in our mind. We try to access it again; we try to decode its message anew. The poem stands for a time which is remote from our current life. On the other side acts my own text ME from 2016. Its sharp and reduced language leaves space for interpretation but essentially recalls us into the here and now.



Rainer Maria Rilke H.T.
Abend ME
Der Abend wechselt langsam die Gewänder,
die ihm ein Rand von alten Bäumen hält;
du schaust: und von dir scheiden sich die Länder,
ein himmelfahrendes und eins, das fällt;
und lassen dich, zu keinem ganz gehörend,
nicht ganz so dunkel wie das Haus, das schweigt,
nicht ganz so sicher Ewiges beschwörend
wie das, was Stern wird jede Nacht und steigt –
und lassen dir (unsäglich zu entwirrn)
dein Leben bang und riesenhaft und reifend,
so dass es, bald begrenzt und bald begreifend,
abwechselnd Stein in dir wird und Gestirn.
ME
IN THIS
WONDERING
THIS WORLD
US
VOICES
ME
NOT ENTIRELY
SURE
MEANDERING
TOWARDS
US

 

 

 

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