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Annette Schmucki: taumeln

for four trombones

(2021/2022)

taumeln
the four trombonists play along a list of words that tries to capture the concept of ‚tumbling‘, to tame it. by translating the list in different ways, by transferring it into music, the instrumentalists get into different landscapes of heterophony, of swaying and tumbling, of snowstorm, of unison.
Annette Schmucki

Annette Schmucki (*1968, Zurich) works with language as music. She studied composition with Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger, received numerous prizes and scholarships. is currently working with durations and encounters of projected words (silent music), with the experimental translation of telephone conversations, with overhead lines and pop songs.
www.blablabor.ch/indexschmucki/

language as music

i work with units of meaning and sound. with set pieces of language, language hinges. with words, syllables, sounds, with their similarities and differences.

i work with vertical, horizontal, spatial, temporal and imagined maps of overtone windows, sound shifts, phonetic translations, sound productions in the mouth-voice space.

i am in search of the self-consciousness of language, language that unscrupulously points to itself, but without losing its poetry or in order to become poetry in the first place; poetry as revealed, degyped, constructed, as rhythm and sound. language as naked lyric. as music.

at the same time, language as music also offers me the always shimmering conceptuality of the words, and precisely because i pay little attention to the conceptuality when composing, it pervades the music enigmatically and independently and always anew, gives it fleeting additional color, form, movement, playing instructions, opens and closes fields of meaning, blurs. as if there were an animal lying there, dreaming, chewing its cud, breathing heavily. how can it be possible for this animal to eat itself without waking up, so that in the end only the dreaming, the chewing, the breathing remain.

Annette Schmucki

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