The Lightest Words
the lightest words had the weight of oracles (2014/2016)
Sebastian Berweck _ Fairlight CMI synthesizer
Seth Josel _ electric guitar
1 55bonglo – 69bonglo –41B2 –59art2oct –40art –54art (Fairlight solo) 7’16
2 42clap –56 sh2oct –B3 3‘44
3 63/64kirs1 - 70/72bonglo –73 sh –75kir2 9‘43
recording 21.12.2016, Ölbergkirche Berlin, coproduction with Deutschlandfunk Kultur,
producer Rainer Pöllmann, recording producer Michael Havenstein, sound engineer Christian Fischer
KSH – Portrait des Pianisten als junger Mann (2014/2016)
Portrait of the Pianist as a Young Man
for pianist, piano, electronic media, installed loudspeakers and object sounds
Klaus Steffes-Holländer _ piano
4 Teil 1 – 3 Prolog/Prologue - Anzünden/Ignite - Zeitstrahl/time beam - Ballon/Balloon - Gasthaus - Ping Pong 13‘00
5 Teil 4 – 6 Cluster - Schritte/Steps - Aria 11‘48
recording 28./29.9.2016, Hans-Rosbaud-Studio, SWR, producer Bernd Künzig recording producer Dorothee Schabert, sound engineer Norbert Vossen
inyib (2002)
for instrumental sounds, field recordings and found sound, electronics
Ensemble zeitkratzer
6 29‘43
production studio Kirsten Reese 2002
"For me, the fact that I had been playing the piano day and night for over fifteen years and had finally brought it to a completely extraordinary perfection in this exercise had always been a weapon not only against my environment but also against myself.”
(Thomas Bernhard - der Untergeher)
Kirsten Reese studied flute, electronic music and composition and lives in Berlin, where she teaches electroacoustic composition at the University of the Arts. In her works Reese often focuses on performative and narrative aspects, as is the case in the three pieces on this CD. The first track the lightest words had the weight of oracles features the historical and specific tone colour of the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer (played by Sebastian Berweck) and connects it with the sounds of an electric guitar (played by Seth Josel). In contrast KSH - Portrait des Pianisten als junger Mann is a very personal sound portrait of a musician, for which Reese worked closely with the pianist Klaus Steffes-Holländer. The last track on The Lightest Words is inyib, a blend of various acoustic and electronic sound layers which build an associative metaphor. It is performed by the ensemble "zeitkratzer". The booklet contains texts by Christian Grüny, Christa Brüstle, Bernd Künzig and Reinhold Friedl.
