The sound artist Stephan Winkler and the word artist Max Goldt are connected by an artistic and personal friendship. The creations of the two also flow into one another in the music theatre “Schweres tragend”.
Stephan Winkler describes his work as a music-theatrical daydream that unfolds simultaneously on five levels: singing, ensemble, movement, light (space), and text that declaim to develop seemingly independently of each other.
Each of the five levels developed by Winkler follow independent processes of slowing down or speeding up. “The aim of this project could be described as glistening mannerism in multi-layered fluctuating slow motion,” says the composer. There is no plot in the true sense of the word. The overall impression is one of a dream-like slowed-down appearance, of a musical and visual tableaux of the highest artificiality that almost freezes and then dissolves again. Musically and dramaturgically, recurring absences and déja-vus characterise the five “pictures” that flow into one another. The titular text by Max Goldt is not a libretto in the usual sense, but rather one of the five compositional levels. Read by the author himself, it ultimately reveals itself as part of the composition.
Carrying heavy
Small music theatre for two singers, five instrumentalists and electronics
Commissioned work for the 2017 Pocket Opera Festival Salzburg
Music Stephan Winkler
Director Thierry Bruehl
Woman Sachika Ito
Man Klaus Nicola Holderbaum
