Edition Wandelweiser
26/06/2026
A CD (EWR 2206 )
Composed by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
Performed by wandelweiser ensemble (amsterdam/düsseldorf), 6daEXit improvisation ensemble (thessaloniki), bouche bée: petri huurinainen, peter keserue, emmanuelle waeckerlé (london)
what is left in Amsterdam 2022 (17:17) – wandelweiser ensemble
what is left in Düsseldorf day 4 2023 (21:50) – wandelweiser ensemble
what is left in Thessaloniki 2025 (13:47) – 6daEXIt ensemble
what is left in Thornton Heath 2022 (18:06) – bouche bée
"Sudden pandemonium to begin with… Recurring occasionally as we attempt to attune ourselves to the swirling flows of our inner and outer surroundings… until we are done, until we feel or sound indistinguishable from what is there …." (score extract).
Four contrasting interpretations
Live or studio recordings of the performing of a text score commissioned for the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival curated by Dante Boon at Orgelpark (2022). Accompanied by extensive CD notes by Ryan Dohoney (US) and David Grundy (UK/DE).
“ Pandemonium”
The score is an invitation to address through sound such questions as: What does it feel like to provoke pandemonium individually and collectively? How can we cope with such chaos and forced intimacy with ourselves, others, it…?
Each Performer is given a small card with one of the three following suggestions that they may or may not follow: sudden pandemonium (beginning) / pandemonium (recurring once, twice) / what is there (atmos).
“Through the musical politics of What is left ..., those who took part were confronted with the question of how we could create solidarity after the end.” Ryan Dohoney (CD notes)
instruction cards
With the CD I invite listeners to join in with their own attempt to attune themselves to the swirling flows of their inner and outer surroundings. So that collectively we may find ways of carving “a heaven in hell despair”. (William Blake, The marriage of heaven and hell, 1790)
The work was inspired by lockdown experience during the pandemic and my readings at the time. Franco Berardi’s description of chaos as our attempt to reconcile the swirling flows of our surroundings with our own intimate internal rhythm (2018), Timothy Morton’s provocative question: What is left if we are no longer the world? (2013), which became the title and Luce Irigaray’s invitation of being in the cosmos, one towards the other, sustained by an ideal (2001).
The CD was produced with financial support from UCA research fund.
The text score with the cards is available from Edition Wandelweiser
Some extra tracks are on bandcamp album (29/08/2023)