in Süße berstend – Sounds of Love
Creative forms
Music
Electronic music, 3 parts (2018, rev. 2020)
Visiographies
Panel pictures from the series “circle”(2018)
Basis of the Video Visiography
“in Süße berstend”
Poem
Video Visiographies
Part I: Entweben
Sound and image composition – 6:49 min *)
Part II: Kern
Fixed media version (2018, rev. 2020)
Lyrical sound and image space – 10:05 min *)
Part II: Kern
New version for oboe, horn, percussion and fixed media (2022) 10:05 min *)
Premiere
27.03.2022 at the Malakoff-Turm Bottrop
Klangturm Ensemble, directed by Beate Schmalbrock
Nai-Hua Chuang, oboe - Isabelle van de Wiele, horn - Franz-Josef Staudinger, percussion
Part III: Erkennen
Image sequence from the Visiography series “circle” over a sound fabric – 7:02 min **)
*) 2018, new version 2020, dedicated to my son Hanno
**) 2020, dedicated to Ursula Werth in love and gratitude
Rehearsal of “In Süße berstend - Teil II” at the Malakoff-Turm
Glimpses of the soul into inner worlds ...
... between longing and devotion, arousal, bliss, dissolution of boundaries and union. Alongside a joyful becoming-whole, painful shadows also appear in a loving encounter, and with them the chance of healing.
Poem "unserer Laute verschmelzendes Schmiegen"
© Klaus Damm 2018
Klaus Damm’s cross-media composition illuminates these facets of his poem. In a lyrical, pictorial and sonic language of the soul, orbiting universes beyond time arise and pass away, impulses into worlds of association of their own.
While the music of the first two parts was composed with possible later instrumental versions in mind, the third part is conceived as an electronic sound fabric.
The through-composed sound and image composition (Video Visiography) of the first part interprets the inner worlds of the poem in the sound and image dimension, without paraphrasing the text.
In the second part, by contrast, the lyrical core is at the center. The poem glides as interwoven text over a few static image stations, carried by the intimately condensed, expansively moving sound space.
In the third part, finally, a selection from the Visiography series “circle” invites you to pause over the filigree sound fabric: suggested photographs combine with expressive fractal arcs. From such panel pictures grow the video streams of the large-scale form.
English translation of the German original. Deutsche Fassung
