gunnar geisse

MAY I ERASE ONE OF YOUR DRAWINGS

(2007-2010/2011)

Recomposed laptop improvisations of smallest real-time processed samples.

The piece pretends to be a live recording of a New Music concert, say from the Donaueschingen Festival. It approaches the renewal of tradition in general - using the example of the high symbolical encounter of Robert Rauschenberg with Willem de Kooning in the fourth movement (as some kind of audio feed during the performance) - and particularly the digital paradigm shift in art.

gunnar geisse - laptop

❹ I WENT   4'33'' 

     dedicated to On Kawara                    

     Quotations by Robert Rauschenberg, 

     'snouter', Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Wall  

     (spoken by Marty Cook & Geoff         

     Goodman, snouter, computer voice)    

❷ A fEW RƎ∀LS

     dedicated to Derek Bailey, making use of a live

     recorded duo piece by Evan Parker & Gunnar Geisse

❸ MAY I ERASE ONE OF YOUR DRAWINGS (excerpt)

     dedicated to John Wall and Richard Barrett

❺ CHEMINS ON "TRUTH"

     dedicated to Luciano Berio and Hugues Dufourt

❶ ORCHƎSTR∀

     dedicated to Harrison Birtwistle