"Das Blindenspiel"
electroacoustic music
tape: 2 channel, CDR/DAT
The piece contains various sound materials, which I compiled in connection
with music for a radio play. I composed a sound landscape consisting of
ambient noise, instrumental material and purely digitally produced
synthesizer tones.
A radio play script,"Das Blindenspiel," by Susanne Krahe
was the impulse for my work. The book describes the journey of a blind
woman and a film script author, who was instructed to collect ideas for a
film about the USA. Up to that moment he had only seen familiar and
hackneyed pictures, until he met the blind woman and her companion; this
gave him new ideas and material for the film. It became an acoustical
description of a bus journey through the United States from the point of
view of a blind person. In the center of my "story" there is the
acoustically imaginary experience of the blind woman, who also visits Las
Vegas. Situations like resting and thinking in the hotel room and the
perception of this atmosphere are expressed partially by the sounds of a
running fan, human breath and some switches. The casino is indicated by the
rolling roulette ball, some atmo sounds as well as the sound manipulations
therof. Furthermore the
sand and the desert were embedded as a virtual
abstract motive. This piece represents only one travel moment within the
whole story structure.