HEIMAT / 2001
Premiere: April 25, 2001 / Theaterhaus / Frankfurt / D
Oliver Augst (voice/electronics/stage design)
Marcel Daemgen (synthesizer/sampler/electronics)
Michaela Ehinger (voice/play )
Christoph Korn (guitar/electronics)
For Oliver Augst, Marcel Daemgen, Michaela Ehinger and Christoph Korn, "HEIMAT" is
less a category to define or interpret than a metaphor, a space for historic
recall, an archive. This group of artists searched German literature, folk
songs and their own personal memories for the essence of "HEIMAT".
Fragments of what they found were transferred at random onto data carriers
(disks, samplers, the human memory), and then made to interact in a live
performance.
"With 'HEIMAT' Oliver Augst achieved not only
a thematically important and contemporary, wonderfully imaginative and brilliantly
rendered
text and
sound work, but also an original kind of musical theatre for which he and
his group uses the term 'electronic music theater'. (Deutschlandradio);
"HEIMAT
functions like memory and remembering themselves: associative and disjointed,
that is what makes it exciting." (Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung)
"The quartet production 'HEIMAT' works like chamber music:
every detail is always transparent, and a theatrical whole is only created
through
successful tuning. It works because the four artists have come a long way
with their work on the historical, linguistic and tonal material, but do
not give the impression of having come to a conclusion. They keep their excitement,
give and take time and attentiveness for themselves. And because it keeps
on going, even when they turn back the fertile term 'HEIMAT' hovers
like an old German zeppelin. (Frankfurter Rundschau)
"This professional working project from Germany re-works old german
folk-songs and creates something between heartful poptunes and experimental
digital-deconstructivsm,
all with a critical approach. Exceptional stuff!" (Drone)
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