Omar Ebrahimvoice Anne Quirynenvideo Neue Vocalsolisten
ensemble mosaik / Jonathan Stockhammer
Includes booklet with texts by Marcel Beyer and Rainer Pöllmann
0012552KAI - 2006
tracklisting:
Interzone
(01) Like Spain, I am bound to the past 2:30 I
(02) Untroubled, wide awake and calm 2:35
(03) Why don`t you have a soda pop 0:31
(04) I cannot breathe 1:40
(05) I had no lips, no teeth, no vision 0:35
(06) He who has words to hear may spell 1:35
(07) And Joselito 1:33
(08) And the stairs, porches, lawns, driveways 2:28
(09) Let the dawn blue as a flame cross the city 2:16
(10) It`s Man or Monkey 1:50
(11) BROKEN PIECES 11:58 II
(12) I made recordings of the continuous music 18:07 III
(13) Who is the third 8:21
(14) Do they ever come back 5:44
(15) God grant I never die in a fucking hospital 3:14
(16) Word 6:30
(17) I can only wait for it to happen 5:06
TT: 76:42
The interstices are what fascinate artists. Interzone is one such interstice. The title is taken from the book of the same name by William S. Burroughs. It refers to the Moroccan city of Tangier, which was declared an 'international zone' in The Fez Treaty of 1912, thus remaining an undefined space, a zone of indeterminacy, sometimes also of lawlessness. An artificial world, and a world of art, that – not least among literary figures – took on an almost mythical significance. With Interzone, Poppe has broken new ground in his output. It is the product of a triangular relationship between a poet, a composer and a video artist. The complex, multi-layered nature of such a relationship is already indicated by the history of the work‘s composition. A work in progress whose genesis encompassed two years and a constant exchange between all parties involved with numerous changes, as a result of which a great deal of material was discarded, replanned, reconceived and gradually condensed from an idea into a concrete manifestation. (Rainer Pöllmann)
Es sind die Zwischenräume, die Künstler faszinieren. Interzone ist ein solcher Zwischenraum. Der Titel verdankt sich dem gleichnamigen Buch von William S. Burroughs – dort geht es um die Stadt Tanger, die im Marokko Vertrag von 1912 zur „Internationalen Zone“ erklärt wurde. Interzone ist Neuland für Poppe. Es ist das Produkt einer Dreiecksbeziehung zwischen einem Dichter, einem Komponisten und einer Video-Künstlerin. Wie kompliziert, wie vielschichtig eine solche Beziehung ist, davon kündet die Entstehungsgeschichte des Werks. Ein work in progress, dessen Genese sich über zwei Jahre erstreckte, in stetem Austausch zwischen allen Beteiligten, mit zahlreichen Änderungen, bei denen vieles verworfen, umgeplant, neu gedacht und allmählich von der Idee zur konkreten Gestalt verdichtet wurde. (Rainer Pöllmann)