Archive for the “Poetry” category
Forceps of Perception
by depart on Oktober 5, 2009
Chasten dragons and
Dragoon chance
Immobilise phantoms with a hug
Like beauty’s lies in the beholder’s eyes
Premembered clippings of notion pictures
Clinging to the never mind
Little red barrette
We wonder
How the memory of now
Will turn out.
Borrowed Blooms
by depart on September 25, 2009
when night falls like a feather in a vacuum tube
covert carrier crows embark on missions,
collecting clues that stick together
like birds of borrowed plumes,
the secretions of agents.
filling ravenous caverns
Yarrow
by depart on Juni 10, 2008
YArrow is based on the I Ching (the book of changes)
Our reintroprateration relies on the inherent symbolistic systematics and the interrelation of its de-parts.
the receiver defines the message.
so we trancelaid it all out anew for you towards what we read into it.
We focruised around the lushwhack of a 4096-fold world &
beat to the marrow of the yarrow stroke of luck.
biased on this fundament we dewalloped 64 plowattic stories,
fraudiovisusual zenarios, sidlent medidata on the dowser of babel,
a cosmogenetic c0de to joy.
Hexacrammed i-jingles of the blue dragon scry the moon baby
on trigramcycles preprevented by particle systems.
forebodementia.
the red lots and lashes show the modus mutandi
from a start-us-quote to the potendial I-CHANGE-6789.
So, profate and forscythe !“
Yarrow Online
Vexations
by depart on September 7, 2007
“Vexations”:
on & on & on, till the beak of yawn
play a loophole into your headpeace
performance for two piano players, projected video and stream of consciousness writing.
original composition (1893) by Erik Satie. duration ca. 1200 min.
our resume: Vexations is a challenge, a practical joke and a timemachine.
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“Je m’appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.”
we perform satie.
wir verformen satie.
we do it for us.
wir tun es für uns.
we do it for you.
wir tun es für euch.
we do it because it is not important to be done.
wir tun es weil es nicht wichtig ist dass es getan wird.
we do it because we would like to do it.
wir tun es weil wir es gerne tun möchten.
we are two people playing piano and one computing and showing the difference.
wir sind zwei, die klavier spielen und einer, der die differenz berechnet und zeigt.
we will play it note for note.
wir werden es note für note spielen.
you will hear it note for note.
ihr werdet es note für note hören.
afterwards nothing will be the same.
danach wird das nichts sein wie es war.
Short piano piece to be repeated 840 times. Performed at Schmiede Hallein 2007, first incantation of the Reverb.On Series featuring Dorian Concept.
Des Gesprächfightfadens
by depart on Juni 16, 2005
“Des Gesprächsfightfadens”:
word of the wings stutters & flutters
a language re-de-re-construction performance for two performers, video backdrop, disillustrative commentary and sound
duration: ca. 45 min.
DEPART’s germanguage desastroy, a veritabledance lingo-limbo. Dramatized worldplayhem.
A staged piece with toadloads of glimmericks fallinglong upwards from heaven’t scene and hertz beforeplay.
In DEPART’s “Des Gesprächsfightfadens” there is no dramatic plot per se as in conventional theater, but there are recurring themes and ideas, more like in a musical composition. This work relies heavily on DEPART’s belief in the controlled overflow of sensoric input. The audience is supplied with a sheer mass of wordplay in order to provoke a struggle for perception and conscious processing of input. The more you struggle to get everything, the less interesting the piece will be. But if you are able to relax and let your thoughts wander freely, as in a kind of mediational state of mind, you might be able to grab one meaning here, or one there but go along with the flow of the piece easily. The goal of this endeavour is to create a certain state of consciousness where the seemingly superfluous and absurd action supporting the piece becomes a sort of focus of attention itself. Then it starts being a kind of kinetic sculpture of its own, providing DEPART’s beloved “impressures”, moments of pure experience, where an absurd constellation of actions and objects suddenly is not regarded as artificial anymore but experienced like a mountain, a lake, or a leaf. Totally self-evident and understood. To achieve this kind of complexity, DEPART were refining and distilling very thoroughly, even pedantic, to make sure there is still enough funk left in this painstakingly constructed language puzzle.
Unfortunately or thankfully, this piece is virtually impossible to translate into other languages.
Commissioned by ARGEkultur Salzburg, Land & Stadt Salzburg.
Shown December 15th and 16th, 2005 at ARGEkultur, Salzburg, Austria
Performers: Georg Hobmeier, Gregor Ladenhauf
Video: Leonhard Lass
Sound: Gregor Ladenhauf
Parts of this piece are also in effect in disguise as an installation called “GESPRAUM”, shown at paraflows07 exhibition, Vienna, Austria
Impressure Series
by depart on August 12, 2002
playground eclectics
the impressure series was a first attempt to bring together graphic design, sound design and poetry.
passing ideas to-and-fro in long messenger hours (you should see those chat protocols) DEPART were tossing out pieces that would be somehow defining their future output.
like in a lot of DEPART works, wordplay is a crucial element here and is used to make the mind wander and take the reader adrift, flashy animation and fluffy sounds take it all ashore…
2000 onwards headspace odysseys, sandboxfresh playdoobedoo.
DEPART was moved and influenced by rural scapes and urban shapes, streetart and landart growing together.
leo was moved from berlin to barcelona, gregor was moved from lehen to itzling and back every day.