BARTLEBY SPEAKS TO KAUFMANN
Audio installation
In cooperation with Robin Carpenter
Architecture as instrument. The building of the Hebbel theatre transforms the attitude Bartleby's gradually into
an instrumental space composition.
The mode of operation:
The live spoken text window from ' Bartleby, the scrivener ' is recorded. Subsequently, the recording is brought in again to into the theatre space and recorded by a second computer. This process of bringing in and recording is constantly repeated. Slowly the space oscillations of the theatre space transform the text to a composition of architecture. During the recording at night only the language of Bartleby is present in the Hebbel
theatre. ‘Bartleby speaks to Kaufmann ' consists the total play time of 52,26 min of 25 tracks (bringing in) devoted. The designation of the individual tracks result from the current time of the accommodation and make so the playlist a document of the process.
After termination of the recording it was brought in at 2 places over speakers to the end of the stage into the theatre space. Additional it was to be listened at a seat in the second rank. Listened individual over headphone with view into the hall.
Bartleby speaks to Kaufmann is the investigation of a specific place. The piece is an
audible business card of architecture. The procedure of the recording is based on the work of Alvin Lucier ' I am sitting in a room '. Meeting one another architecture
created by Oskar buyer and the literary figure of the refusal ‘Bartleby' are basis for the argument between in the classical style originally created theatre space and the current discourse of the theatre of the present.
Dokumentation der Aufnahme - Gesamtspielzeit: 52,26 min
| Track | Name | Dauer | Komponisten |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 040421_0147h_two01 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 02 | 040421_0252h_two02 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 03 | 040421_0301h_two03 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 04 | 040421_0305h_two04 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 05 | 040421_0311h_two05 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 06 | 040421_0319h_two06 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 07 | 040421_0324h_two07 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 08 | 040421_0329h_two08 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 09 | 040421_0336h_two09 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 10 | 040421_0343h_two10 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 11 | 040421_0348h_two11 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 12 | 040421_0352h_two12 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 13 | 040421_0356h_two13 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 14 | 040421_0401h_two14 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 15 | 040421_0410h_two15 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 16 | 040421_0414h_two16 | 2:07 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 17 | 040421_0419h_two17 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 18 | 040421_0423h_two18 | 2:05 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 19 | 040421_0427h_two19 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 20 | 040421_0432h_two20 | 2:07 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 21 | 040421_0438h_two21 | 2:07 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 22 | 040421_0441h_two22 | 2:07 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 23 | 040421_0444h_two23 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 24 | 040421_0448h_two24 | 2:06 | Carpenter & Schuster |
| 25 | 040421_0451h_two25 | 2:07 | Carpenter & Schuster |
Belagerung Bartleby - a theatral installative interruption for 100 hours.
A project in the Hebbel theatre Berlin on 21. 04. - 25. 04. 2004.
Bartleby, the scrivener (1853) of Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Oskar Kaufmann (1873 - 1956)
Hungarian architect and interieur designer. Architect of the Hebbel theatre and the Volksbühne Berlin
The installation is based on the work 'I am sitting in a room' (1969) by
Alvin Lucier.
(viz.:electroacoustic music and computer music: History - aesthetics - methods - systems - author: Martin Suppe)