Jazz-Schmiede, Düsseldorf
17/08/2021
KLANGRAUM 2021″day by day” (X)
Launch of the eponymous CD with daily performances of the open score and the act of of readwalking at its core
Performed by Antoine Beuger (voice, flute), clara de asis (noise signal), Rebecca Lane (bass flute), tobias liebezeit (vibraphone), Christoph Nicholas (voice), Deborah Walker (cello), Chiara Saccone (piano), Samuel Vriezen (voice, melodica) Daniil Pilchen (voice, harmonica), E Waeckerle (voice, pebbles)
Readwalking
Two words brought together to describe a simultaneous act of reading and walking, of reading as walking, of walking as reading, of sounding a text about walking, step by step, one word calling the other, following one’s senses, like Thoreau.
with Christoph Nicolas, Daniil Pilchen and Stefan Thut, 20/08/2021
with Clara de Asis and Rebecca Lane, 21/08/2021
with Clara de Asis and Rebecca Lane, 21/08/2021
Readwalking on 20th and 21st august 2021
‘Wherever a (wo)man separates from the multitude, and goes her own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road’. Life without principle, (Henry David Thoreau, 1863)
The open score is based on a radical pruning of David Henri Thoreau’s transcendental essay about walking (1851). Footnotes provide suggestions on how to speak, sing, sound the remaining words, alone or with others, inside or outside.
Daily performances
17/08/2021 8.30pm. Sitting using random pages , 4 pages each.
Antoine Beuger (voice, flute), Clara de Asis (noise signal), Rebecca Lane (bass flute), tobias liebezeit (vibraphone), Christoph Nicholas (voice), Deborah Walker (cello), Chiara Saccone (piano), Samuel Vriezen (voice, melodica) Daniil Pilchen (voice, harmonica), E. Waeckerlé (voice).
18/08/2021 9.30pm. Walking around or sitting using the pocket book as a score.
Antoine beuger (voice), Samuel Vriezen (voice), E.Waeckerlé (voice).
19/08/2021 10.30am. Sitting with page 15. 16 .24. 25 readwalked in that order.
Deborah Walker (cello, voice), Chiara Saccone (piano, voice), E.Waeckerlé (voice, pitch pipe).
20/08/2021 4pm. Sitting, all starting on page 3
Stefan Thut (field recording, stick and aluminium board, voice), Daniil Pilchen (harmonica, voice), Christoph Nicolas (Stone Harp), E. Waeckerlé (voice, pebbles).
21/08/2021 12.30. Sitting, words were tapped written or translated by pouring water into glass vessels.
Clara de Asis (guitar with e-bow, bells, glass jars and water, tapping). Rebecca Lane (crystal glasses, bow and beater, glass jars and water, tapping). E.Waeckerlé (breath, whistle, voice, tapping).
22/08/2021 12.30. Sitting with page 15, 16,24, 25 readwalked in that order.
Deborah Walker (cello, voice), Chiara Saccone (piano, voice), E.Waeckerlé (voice, pitch pipe).
Three of the five recordings are available on Bandcamp (track 6 to 8)
A direction out there – readwalking (with) ThoreauCD is available here
Shortlisted for the Sound Walk September Awards 2021.
Read Pruning Thoreau, written for the occasion here