Strange Beauty of Second Use

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“I will sleep / in my little cup”

( Ron Paget, December )

Strange Beauty of Second Use“ studies the border areas between music and visual art as well as the communication process between a composer, musicians and an audience. In its core, this piece puts emphasis on a dialog between an object and its ever changing virtual circuit of meanings and references. „Strange Beauty of Second Use“ is first of all an art-object. It consists of a set of 48 cards which take a role of a music score. They are filled out with different graphic object and texts, which are rooted explicit in a popular culture – video game protagonists, comic figures, newspaper cutouts… they all interact with each other disregarding any historical context.

 

Beside of graphic symbols and abstract shapes, the cards for the voice are making use of short poems by such writers as Richard Brautigan,Ron Paget, Bill Knott and Charles Bukowski. Even though the score may be considered as very unorthodox, there are no explanations regarding how the symbols should be translated into the music actions and sound events. Every performer may find a personal way of dealing with his cards – there are no limitations. You can think of it as a composition tool, which may be used in any possible way to create a personal structure of musical performance.