Lucia Mense - flutes
Cora Schmeiser - voice
Dietmar Bonnen - keyboards and percussion
Lucia Mense, Cora Schmeiser, and Dietmar Bonnen ran across each other at a 'Klangwerkstatt' in the Kolumba Museum of Cologne and decided to convert their shared ideas into sound. They mix Dadaism with contemporary and medieval repertoires, using vocals, Glockenspiel, steel drum, snare drum, recorders, Widerstand, shruti box, crackle box, casio, toy piano, kalimba, singing bowls, a milk frother, and coffee grinder. They take out a fine number of delicacies from the music box of Pandora, featuring a selection of 'THIS and THAT'.
(Parts of) 'THIS and THAT' was (were) performed in the Stadtgarten, Cologne (D) / Loft, Cologne / OCW, stage for small scale events, Rotterdam.
Fragment "Ich spür ain tier"
Fragment "Bläue" (impro)
Fragment "Quis dabit"
Fragment "Kleines Lied"
Fragment "O rubor sanguinis"
Fragment "Seikilos-stele"
PROGRAM
Niet nu lunyala / txt. Daniil Charms - mus. Mense Schmeiser Bonnen
Ich spür ain tier / Oswald von Wolkenstein
Bläue / txt. Friedrich Hölderlin - fragmentation Dietmar Bonnen
Quis Dabit / Huelgas Codex c. 1300 A.D.
Improvisation on motives from the Ursonate / txt. Kurt Schwitters
Kleines Lied / txt. Daniil Charms - mus. Manfred Niehaus
Mondgesicht / txt. Cora Schmeiser - mus. Mense Schmeiser Bonnen
O rubor sanguinis / Hildegard von Bingen
Seikilos-stele / between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D.
Andenken / txt. Friedrich Hölderlin - fragmentation Dietmar Bonnen
Michelangelo / Dietmar Bonnen
Totenklage / txt. Jakob van Hoddis - mus. Manfred Niehaus
Weltende / txt. Jakob van Hoddis - mus. Manfred Niehaus
Kiel / Dietmar Bonnen
Verlangen / folk song
texts: German, Middle High German and Latin
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