nókʷts (Summer of 1992)
Für einen Unmenschen, Schlagwerk, Blaue Fläche, Dunst und Klangprojektion
Percussion: Tamás Furtenbacher | UTOPIA – Eine musikalische Sehnsucht nach dem Unbekannten | Hoffmanns Höfe | Frankfurt am Main, Germany [30/10/2011]
Audio Recording: Belma Bešlić-Gal | Photo Credits: Artist [nókʷts (Summer of 1992) Video Stills]
DATA
Duration: 10‘52
Instrumentation: Wind chime, Rainstick, Tam-Tam (as big as possible), Vibraphone, Bass Drum (90 cm), LED Panel, LED Blacklight Bar, Pocket-Beamer, Fog Machine, 4/7/8 or 10 CH Sound projection
Performer of premiere: Tamás Furtenbacher
Premiere: UTOPIA – Eine musikalische Sehnsucht nach dem Unbekannten | Werkstattkozert, Hoffmanns Höfe, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [30/10/2011]
Support: Archiv Frau und Musik | BMUKK | Ingrid zu Solms Stiftung | Institut für zeitgenössische Musik [Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt] | maecenia – Frankfurter Stiftung für Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst | hr2 | Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
List of performances
Percussion: Tamás Furtenbacher | UTOPIA – Eine musikalische Sehnsucht nach dem Unbekannten | Hoffmanns Höfe | Frankfurt am Main, Germany [30/10/2011]
Percussion: Raphael Meinhart | JazzWerkstatt, Roomservice Festival | Porgy & Bess | Vienna, Austria [09/09/2012]
ABOUT
The human being is this Night, this empty nothing which contains everything in its simplicity – a wealth of infinitely many representations, images, none of which occur to it directly, and none of which are not present. This [is] the Night, the interior of [human] nature, existing here – pure Self – [and] in phantasmagoric representations it is night everywhere: here a bloody head suddenly shoots up and there another white shape, only to disappear as suddenly. We see this Night when we look a human being in the eye, looking into a Night which turns terrifying. [For from his eyes] the night of the world hangs out toward us.
Into this Night the being has returned. Yet the movement of this power is posited likewise.
The Night of the World
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel