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Music Text

Text by Helmut Oehring (G). Graphics by Hagen Klennert

Scoring

speaker, dancer(female), 3 deaf female soloists, male soprano, trb, elec.guitar, live electronics

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Opera
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Publisher

Bote & Bock

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

Availability

World Premiere
01/12/1998
Bonn
Helmut Oehring, director / Bonn Opera/German State Arts and Exhibitions Centre co-production
Composer's Notes

At first it was only a rift.
At first nobody saw it.
It is supposed that rifts are caused where one
does not get deeply enough. Where a sort of void
is created like a vacuum bubble.
There is neither a scientifically reasonable
nor a theological explanation for that.
At first, The Rift sucks everything up through an only small
opening, and another place is created.
It is the non-place, absolute silence, without
hearing, without language.
Muddy. Principally, it is the Dark Grey Green.
There is everything else.
Fear. Silence. Horror. The race. The lake.

Programme Note

Together with the works finished so far, 8CHT (aus: Der Riss), 6ECHS (aus: CRUISER/Das Opfer), ER.eine She (aus: 5ÜNF/ Haare-Opfer) and 2WEI (aus: SCHANDE/ Das Opfer), 7IEBEN forms a cycle counted backwards from 8, with varying instruments, but always with music and text written by Oehring himself, combined with live electronics, deaf actors, dancer(s), instrumental soloists, singers and stage actors.

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