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GilGul
UESD101160-000
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GILGUL. Grotesque, miniature musical theatre, for Soprano and Cello. I create here a form between music, literature and theatre. The performance may either be held within the context of a concert, or staged as a small theatrical piece.
I have myself created the collage of texts, which comprises obscurantist Golem parodies, Kafka, ancient magical-sacral incantations, Sigmund Freud citations and incorporates an experimental approach to language. Through narrative and acts of alienation speech often dissolves into syllables or even individual letters. The World and every act of creation is formed through Speech.
The issue is transformation, metamorphose. In the centre there stands the ancient and mysterious ‚Sefer Yetzira‘, ‚The Book of Creation‘. This book has been read since the Early Middle Ages as a mystical meditation of the wise Rabbis. The world was created from words, words and numbers (which in the Hebrew alphabet are one and the same) In these words there lies the magical power, the creative power. If only one could find again the correct combination of words with which God blew breath into Adam (‚Adama‘ means ‚Earth‘ in Hebrew, so Adam is a ‚Creature of the soil‘) one could create a Golem from earth. There are several mysterious legends concerning the creation of a Golem - including one by Gustav Meyrink who in the 1920’s wrote a cheap horror story version – a book which is certainly problematical due to ist many antisemitic clichés, but the strange, overflowing obscurantism caught my interest and so I have let much of it flow into the work.
If one speaks aloud the words of the Sefer Yetzira (they are indeed ancient magical incantations) something must of course ‚‘happen‘‘. Or else all gets out of control. Suddenly we are with Gregor Samsas and his metamorphosis in Kafka’s novel of the same name.. Everything becomes totally insane, at some point all fall asleep during the game and then wake again, in shock, with ‚GilGul‘.
The Hebrew word ‚Gilgul‘ could be translated as ‚metamorphosis‘. In the esoteric tradition of the Jewish Kabbalah this term is used for transmigration of souls. I understand ‚Gilgul‘ to some extent as the jumping-over of an idea, as a transition, as a result of the word-magic that has gone out of control.
The piece is reminiscent of a magical ritual, a form of spiritist séance in intermittent micro-sleep transformed on a musical plane. In ist best moments art always incorporates a secularised magical process, a form of ‚Magic‘ This ‚Magic‘ which can lie within Art is a process that DOES something. A transformation of ideas, of feelings and emotions. Art has an effect upon the listener, where possible transforming them into a new state.
The piece ends with a citation from Sigmund Freud – Which then transforms everything onto yet another plane. GilGul as a change of Levels.
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Type: digitale Partitur
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Difficulty: -
Format: 210 x 297 mm
ISBN: -
Pages: 28
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