Spannungsresonanzen

radio play - stereo
Year: 2019
Duration: 8:30 min
Date of first performance: April 5, 2019
Place: Bauhaus Museum Weimar

Hommage à Kandinsky

The radio play for the Bauhaus Museum Weimar is an imaginary sound journey into the city's atmosphere 100 years ago. How did Weimar sound at a time when art and industry converged—when traditional boundaries dissolved to make way for new spaces of creativity? As artists and craftsmen from diverse backgrounds, each with their own visions, came together to shape a new world, what echoes did they leave behind?
Join us on a brief, fictitious trip to this transformative era.

Two quotes by Wassily Kandinsky serve as inspiration:

"The recognition of the external can only become a door to the future when this recognition builds a bridge to the interior."
(from the article Und, 1929)

"Often I was stimulated by sounds: music—Wagner, Beethoven, Bach. Or noises—a falling board, murmuring water. Thus, organized and unorganized sounds—impressions through the ear."
(from Responses to a Questionnaire by Paul Plaut, 1929)

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