mense schmeiser bonnen
photo's © florian cramer, arnold schalks / video © arnold schalks / audio © dietmar bonnen
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mondgesicht (moon face)
for 2 music boxes, coffee grinder and sub-bass recorder
txt. schmeiser / muz. mense schmeiser bonnen
cora schmeiser (voice), dietmar bonnen (keys and percussion) and lucia mense (flutes) mix dadaïsm, contemporary and medieval repertory. _they make use of vocals, glockenspiel, steel drum, snare drum, recorders, widerstand, crackle box, casio, toy piano, kalimba, singing bowls, milk frother and coffee grinder to take out a fine number of delicacies from the music box of pandora. _friday's programme featured this:
# niet nu lunyala / txt. daniil charms # ich spür ain tier / txt. oswald von wolkenstein # bläue / txt. friedrich hölderlin - fragmentation bonnen # quis dabit / huelgas codex around 1300 # improvisation on motives from the ursonate / txt. kurt schwitters # kleines lied / txt. daniil charms - muz. manfred niehaus --- encore # mondgesicht / txt. schmeiser muz. mense schmeiser bonnen
saturday evening's programme featured that:
# o rubor sanguinis / hildegard von bingen # seikilos-stele / between 200 b chr and 100 a chr # andenken / txt. friedrich hölderlin - fragmentation bonnen # michelangelo / dietmar bonnen # totenklage / txt. jakob van hoddis muz. manfred niehaus # weltende / txt. jakob van hoddis - muz. manfred niehaus # kleines lied / txt. daniil charms - muz. manfred niehaus # kiel / bonnen # niet nu lunyala / txt. daniil charms
and finally, sunday evening featured a mix of this and that:
# o rubor sanguinis / hildegard von bingen # bläue / txt. friedrich hölderlin - fragmentation bonnen # quis dabit / huelgas codex around 1300 # verlangen / folk song # michelangelo / dietmar bonnen # ich spür ain tier / txt. oswald von wolkenstein # kleines lied / txt. daniil charms - muz. manfred niehaus # niet nu lunyala / txt. daniil charms --- encore # mondgesicht / txt. schmeiser muz. mense schmeiser bonnen
in november 2012, mense schmeiser and bonnen ran across each other in the kolumba museum in cologne and decided to convert their shared ideas into sound.
