THE WRONG LEG
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the soprano cora schmeiser put her wrong leg forward. _she treated the audience to a vocal programme of staged interpretations on words by daniil kharms, velemir khlebnikov, georges aperghis and christian morgenstern. _by means of awkward positions on the tightropes of the staff, she demonstrated that time is a reversable feint and that 'this now' and 'that now' coincide; as if nothing happens/happened. _stage design and technique: arnold schalks
'...this, that, here, there, be, i, we, god. '
the perpetual wristwatch
THE KNEE / air for soprano and film projector / text: christian morgenstern (1871-1914) | music: cora schmeiser (© 2008)
'ein knie geht einsam durch die welt. _es ist ein knie, sonst nichts!...'
THE KNEE | a lone knee wanders through the world / a knee and nothing more, / it's not a tent, it's not a tree, / a knee and nothing more. | in battle there once was a man / shot foully through and through; / the knee alone remained unhurt / as saints are said to do. | since then it's wandered through the world. / a knee and nothing more, / it's not a tent, it's not a tree, / a knee and nothing more
mp3 audio file / file size: 1,1 mb / dur: 1:14 min.
INVOCATION OF LAUGHTER (fragment) / velimir khlebnikov (1885-1922)
INVOCATION OF LAUGHTER | o, laugh, laughers! / o, laugh out, laughers! / you who laugh with laughs, you who laugh it up laughishly / o, laugh out laugheringly / o, belaughable laughterhood - the laughter of laughering laughers! / o, unlaugh it outlaughingly, belaughering laughists! / laughily, laughily, / uplaugh, enlaugh, laughlings, laughlings / laughlets, laughlets. / o, laugh, laughers! / o, laugh out, laughers!
