Ballade n 2
with Christoph Nicolaus on Stone Harp
Lets take a walk - Your hands - my voice - 1 step = 1 breath = 1 sound
short - 0 to 10 secs - S / medium -10 to 30 secs – M / long - 30 to 40 secs - L
s s s - voice
in English a ballad is a song – une ballade in French is both a walk and a song
Ballad n*2 is a new performance work which looks at of one of life most defining gesture, walking.
Walking is understood here as a simultaneous act of writing and sounding (space).
Each step I take leaves a vocal trace, mostly breathing with a few percussive and monotonal interventions. Each step Christoph Nicolaus takes , transforms into a sonic gesture on his stone harp.
There are 100 steps to this ballade. Each step, breath, gesture taken is either short medium or long, according to the instructions given in the visual score.
Premiered on the 23rd of October at Klang im Turm in Munich
see Ballade in Ongoing project
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