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“CelloPhanie, or about the crackling and crumpling when unpacking a swan-shaped cello” is what the Viennese composer Georg Nussbaumer (* 1964) calls his new radio piece for hr2-kultur. The initial idea of the work is: “I wish to introduce you to the cellophane symphony.” Anaïs Nin told Henry Miller this in a letter in 1935.
With support from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Public Service and Sport, the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and the SKE Fund of austro mechana
Contributors:
Sophie Notte, cello; Soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop, Berlin; Students of the violin class Nurit Stark, Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, among others
Georg Nussbaumer, who also incorporated particles from works by Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Salvador Dali, Katsue Kitasono, Elfriede Jelinek, Arno Schmidt, Tommy Jones, Ulla Meinecke, Anton Bruckner and Camille Saint-Saëns into the radio composition, says himself about his “CelloPhanie”: “Cellophane, the delicate transparent packaging skin, has been crackling with a rainbow iridescence with every movement since 1908. When it is removed, something ‘appears’, reveals itself, which was already visible before: flowers, cigarettes, sausage. In addition to this crackling, there is something in the cellophane also the ‘Cellophany’, the sudden appearance of a violoncello. Like a theophany, it descends a ladder to heaven like a god or goddess, with corpus, wounds and Cupid’s bow in a translucent cover, bringing with it the swan, the violoncello-Cygnus from the feather cloud, a Snow White in cellophane.”
Broadcast: hr2-kultur, “The Artist’s Corner”, January 6th, 2024, 11:00 p.m.
Published on 01/06/24 at 11:08 p.m
2024-01-06 22:20:28
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