Stoffwechsel-Graphik

1971/1973 (24′56″)
Electronic Music
Post Serial Music/Tape Music

With the movements:
1. sem (musical working title Schwebungen) (3’18”)
2. mes (musical working title tensions) (4’09”)
3. give – learn – take (musical working title conversation) (4’52”)
4. giving birth (musical working title contractures)
5. ideal (musical working title segments) (7’53”)
6. dying (musical working title Differenzen)

Through the “graphmus system” the letters of the alphabet are connected to the alphabet of notes. In this way, the terms from the theatre piece that seem important to the composer can be translated into chords. Tone painting was included. Tone painting, acting or singing skills and the attempt to create theatrical sounds from objects are not enough to meet the challenge of making music theatre. Rather, all theatrical and musical possibilities must be combined in a balanced relationship. The composition “graphik” is based on electronic elements in connection with organic sounds e.g. glasses. The music is firmly notated and does not allow improvisation. The composition was realized in the radio play studio (theater science) Erlangen in Germany. In 1973, the corresponding theater play “Stoffwechsel” was to be premiered at the Experimental Theatre in Erlangen. This was due to casting reasons, we did not have a mime that could also speak, and production and financial reasons.

The compositions “Sem” and “Mes” were premiered on November 3, 1972, during the concert series “Hausmusiktage” (October 20 – November 20, 1972) at the Kaiser Heinrich Gymnasium in Bamberg (Germany); June 6, 1973, Wechseljahrwoche, Franz-Ludwig Gymnasium, Bamberg.

The Circle 1
1973/1992 (18’20”)
The Circle 2
1973/1994 (12’00”)
Electronic Music; tape music

The “Graphmus System” served as the starting point for these compositions.
In this case the word “ideal” was connected to the graphic form, the circle. The circle is the very form which can only be calculated proportionally, but can never be drawn precisely, and is thus an ideal. In 1992 and 1994 “The circle” was revised, there are two different pieces with different durations, and during the Sunwheel projects Sunwheel Lelystad and Sunwheel Masada newly performed.