{"id":14503,"date":"2015-12-17T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=14503"},"modified":"2016-09-24T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T22:06:01","slug":"aus-vierundzwanzig-uwe-rasch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=14503","title":{"rendered":"aus vierundzwanzig | Uwe Rasch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"aus vierundzwanzig | Uwe Rasch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/gruen_161.jpg\" alt=\"aus vierundzwanzig | Uwe Rasch\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>aus vierundzwanzig | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=14521\">Uwe Rasch<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nSchubertadaptionen &#8211; Ein Materialhaufen zu Franz Schuberts <em>Winterreise<\/em><br \/>\n<em>English<\/em> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=14590\">Deutsch<\/a><br \/>\nGruen 161 |\u00a0DVD &gt; [<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.gruenrekorder.de\/?full#Gruen_161\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"#reviews\">Reviews<\/a><br \/>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aus vierundzwanzig- \u2018Out of Twenty-Four\u2019<br \/>\nSince 2009 the composer Uwe Rasch has been working on a body of works called \u2018Out of Twenty-Four\u2019 (<em>aus vierundzwanzig<\/em>). It is a contemporary adaptation of Franz Schubert\u2019s original 1827 song cycle, \u201cDie Winterreise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This project is about a modern, creative and, at the same time, poetic retrospective and interpretation, which accesses, at times, structural, compositional and conceptual features of the original model and, at others, the wealth of available connotations of Wilhelm M\u00fcller\u2019s original texts in Schubert\u2019s musical version.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Formally, it is a modular system, which is connected associatively and materialistically, yet there is no such strict linearity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, overtime a conglomeration emerged \u2013 a <em>mound of material<\/em>, according to Rasch. It was a hotchpotch of videos, animations, photos, collages, choreographies, texts, audio clips and instrumental compositions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hence, in terms of movement, scenery, substance, physicality, mediumship and artistic expression we encounter somewhat different elements, which correspond and comment on each other in such a compilation of multimedia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The marginalisation and societal isolation of the self is one of the central thoughts to which the modules consistently relate. For Uwe Rasch, it is not a romantic theme, nor romantic melancholy, but rather the prosaic reality of our time: <em>I act on the assumption of a selective misunderstanding of the romantic approach: the disappointed romantic love offers no cause for this work and Wilhelm M\u00fcller\u2019s texts only generate more of an associated framework, a springboard or even a contradiction in the search for music. The activity is being assumed: pointless wanderings of a shaken human in a city. That comes together with the reality of strays, the homeless, tramps, street children and how all such titles are brought together under one umbrella: the cold, cruel life of those who have no permanent abode.<\/em> (Uwe Rasch)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is expressed through different products of mediumship, such as the three searching, disorientated and helplessly exposed dance figures that rotate on the ground whilst wrapped in poor material (cardboard, polystyrene and plastic).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The figures are not defined- their faces and sexes remain obscure. Uwe Rasch, as with his earlier works, concerns himself with the causalities between movement\/body and music\/art, as well as with the exploration of the limits of physical capacity. Out of this he develops his musical (theatre) modules.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Complex and layered experimental designs stand alongside simple scenes: for example, a bottle recycling machine that swallows glass bottles \u2013 a cynical commentary on Schubert\u2019s song \u2018The Inn\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Themes such as the recurring blue flower, materials, objects of sound, and audio-visual installations establish places of association. It is then through such themes that the free combination and interconnection of differing modules become possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Irrational size ratios, trimmed room dimensions and surreal perspectives create distance and foreignness, although the concrete materials are familiar to everyone. Uwe Rasch\u2019s works have a refreshing personal touch and a charm to the- he prefers an easy-going, visionary access to the material. The artistic work-process resembles a \u2018playing around\u2019 with components of both the culture of entertainment and those of a more high-brow significance, with grotesque and surreal sets, and with simple or either difficult production techniques. The political power in Schubert\u2019s \u201cWinterreise\u201d expresses itself too in \u2018Out of Twenty-Four\u2019 through the subtleness, profoundness, gentility and sensuality of the work. It is a kind of \u2018conclusion\u2019 that takes stock of the own works, societal ethos and morals as well as the plight of those people who are being marginalised by society and pushed to its edge by modern times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Version for wind instruments, dancers, video and playback.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1_0:00_Nr. 20 Pappe<br \/>\n2_6\u201920_Nr. 20 Glissandofl\u00f6ten<br \/>\n3_10\u201958_Nr. 22 boomwhacker<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/mp3\/aus24-2 2.mp3\">MP3<\/a><br \/>\n4_13\u201907_Nr. 21 Automat<br \/>\n5_15\u201914_Nr. 3 Sopransaxophone<br \/>\n6_6 16\u201950_Nr. 13 Styropor<br \/>\n7_19\u201949_Nr. 4\/10 Hundechor<br \/>\n8_21\u201954_Nr. 20\/16\/13 Pappe\/Folie\/Styropor<br \/>\n9_25\u201907_Nr. 16 Folie<br \/>\n10_28\u201946_Nr. 2 Barytonsaxophon<br \/>\n11_32\u201949_Nr. 20\/16\/13 Pappe\/Folie\/Styropor<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/mp3\/aus24_13_16_20.mp3\">MP3<\/a><br \/>\n12_35\u201950_Nr. 7 Wasser<br \/>\n13_40\u201913_Nr. 24 Sopransaxophonduo<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/mp3\/aus24-24.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13 Tracks (46\u203220\u2033)<br \/>\nDVD (500 copies)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uwe Rasch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stock11.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.stock11.de<\/a><br \/>\nMark Lorenz Kysela <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stock11.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.stock11.de<\/a><br \/>\nNikola Lutz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolalutz.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.nikolalutz.de<\/a><br \/>\nErik Drescher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikdrescher.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.erikdrescher.de<\/a><br \/>\nKiri Haardt <a href=\"http:\/\/bfh.academia.edu\/KiriHaardt\" target=\"_blank\">www.bfh.academia.edu\/KiriHaardt<\/a><br \/>\nMagali Sander-Fett <a href=\"http:\/\/tanzkollektivbremen.de\/magali-sander-fett\" target=\"_blank\">www.tanzkollektivbremen.de\/magali-sander-fett<\/a><br \/>\nClaudia Senoner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanztendenz.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.tanztendenz.de<\/a><br \/>\nMonika B. Beyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netzgeflecht.de\" target=\"_blank\">www.netzgeflecht.de<\/a><br \/>\nPhotographers: Uwe Rasch, Robert van de Laar<br \/>\nTranslation: Daniel Foster<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sound Art Series by Gruenrekorder<br \/>\nGermany \/ 2015 \/ Gruen 161 \/ LC 09488 \/ GEMA \/ EAN 4050486946312<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/151286254\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/152285793\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"reviews\"><\/a><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian K\u00e4mper | <a href=\"http:\/\/musiktexte.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">MusikTexte<\/a> (150)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/pdf\/Gruen_161-Review_MusikTexte_150.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Review PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materialhaufen | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deutschlandradiokultur.de\/programmvorschau.282.de.html?drbm:date=05.04.2016\" target=\"_blank\">Deutschlandradio Kultur<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nUwe Raschs multimediale Adaption der &#8222;Winterreise&#8220; | Von Julian K\u00e4mper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exzerpt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/mp3\/gekuerzt-Kaemper-Rasch.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uwe Rasch entwirft einen multimedialen Raum zur Reflexion \u00fcber das kalte Unterwegssein &#8211; mit Hundechor, Spielzeug und Fleischwolf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julian Cowley | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire Magazine \u2013 Issue 384<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nFive cardboard boxes, arranged to resemble a human torso and limbs, twitch and shuffle on a worn, grubby floor. The image resembles some animation dredged from the collective unconscious by Czech surerealist Jan Svankmajer. But dancer Kiri Haardt is encased within the brown taped packaging, a living being, clearly depleted and struggling in vain to defy gravity. On the soundtrack breathy, introspective voices become more and more wrapped up in their own obscure deliberations, while a sonic scrawl that initially suggests writing grows increasingly raucous and illegible.<br \/>\nAs the title Aus Vierundzwanzig (which translates as Out of 24) is intended to indicate, this sequence is part of a 2012 adaptation by Uwe Rasch of Franz Schubert\u00b4s 24 song cycle Die Winterreise (The Winter Journey). Bremen based composer and multimedia artist Rasch, a member \u2013 like Jennifer Walshe \u2013 of the stock 11 collective, offers a starting and radical take on that Romantic tour de force. Schubert\u00b4s 1827 settings of texts by poet Wilhelm M\u00fcller open with the words: \u201eI arrived here a stranger; a stranger I depart.\u201c A standard narrative of rejected love is distilled into a singular evocation of existential desolation. Rasch, who has been working on this project since 2009, revisits that state of fractured subjectivity and shifts its focus away from self-absorption, towards an engaged response to a standardised, impersonal, unjust and bureaucratised world.<br \/>\nAlthough the boxed-in figure may recall Hugo Ball\u00b4s dadaist purge of Romantic pretensions, clad in cardbaord at the Carbaret Voltaire, a more pressing association is the plight of rough sleepers, the marginalised and dispossessed whose reality here elbows out M\u00fcller and Schubert\u00b4s desparing individual. Rasch opens this work with a black screen at the foot of which a small, hypersensitive blue flower appears to be undergoing a series of emotional spasms. It\u00b4s a cartoon version of Die Blaue Blume, durable symbol of German aesthetic and philosphical idealism. Walter Benjamin remarked in 1923 that anyone who still dreamt of it had overslept; yet in 1968 rebellious students in Berlin clamoured for the blue flower to be painted red.<br \/>\nAnother dancer wears fabric in the flower\u00b4s symbolic colours, yet remains flattened, limply flapping like an exhausted butterfly. The noise generated by recurrent struggling figures encased in cardboard or polystyrene is as integral to the conposition as the sounding of a flute or Saxophone. Rasch\u00b4s impoverished, often harsh and discomforting music reflects a dimished sphere of human agency, a regimented and oppressively dissonant social order.<br \/>\nEach section of Aus Vierundzwanzig corresponds to Die Winterreise, but in ways that are mostly oblique and always ironic. Footage of an automated bottling plant provides a clinking allusion to Schubert\u00b4s inhospitable tavern; an introspective riverside scene is transformed into the distorted sound of water spalshing over the writhing of a naked, seemingly limbless, torso; and Schubert\u00b4s melody from the cycle\u00b4s final song, about a cold and neglected hurdy-gurdy man, surfaces in scrambled form through penetrating blasts of soprano saxophone. A signpost on the winter journey is here replaced by panles of riveted steel, inscribed with graffiti. The words below a stencilled image of a kissing couple read \u201eholy shit I love you\u201c. Who is the stranger now?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/issues\/385\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DM | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitalweekly.net\" target=\"_blank\">VITAL WEEKLY<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTwo very experimental and ambitious works by Gruenrekorder. \u2018Aus Vierundzwanzig\u2019 is a multimedia-work. A thick booklet is included. There is some work to do here. Rasch studied composition with Rolf Riehm in Bremen. His works feature above all audio-visual projects and installations, with in interest for the relation between body (movement) and sound. \u2018Aus Vierundzwanzig\u2019 is no exception to it. We are talking here of a project Rasch started in 2009 and is about adapting Schuberts \u2019Winterreise\u2019, composed in 1827. A very conceptual work, that is very far from any reprise of the Winterreise in whatever romantic sense. The music is performed by Mark Lorenz (sax), Nikola Lutz (sax), who also works as a duo Invading Pleasures (see below). Plus Erik Drescher (glissando flute). The performance is done by three dancers. The music is treated and sometime recognizable as originating from sax, sometimes not. They correspond with the images that are mostly built from the human body \u2018dressed\u2019 in boxes, making simple movements. One sees the movements come from the human body, without seeing the body itself. Despite all explaining texts that are included I could not relate to this one. This surely has something to do with me, as I find multimedia projects often not appealing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitalweekly.net\/1029.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0141ukasz Kom\u0142a | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowamuzyka.pl\" target=\"_blank\">Nowamuzyka.pl<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nNowo\u015bci z Gruenrekorder. Tym razem co\u015b dla mi\u0142o\u015bnik\u00f3w eksperyment\u00f3w rozpisanych na saksofony i modu\u0142owe instalacje nawi\u0105zuj\u0105ce do dzie\u0142 Franza Schuberta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowamuzyka.pl\/2016\/01\/29\/nowosci-z-gruenrekorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>] Niemiecki kompozytor Uwe Rasch pracuje ju\u017c od 2009 roku nad materia\u0142em \u201eaus vierundzwanzig\u201d (\u201eOut of Twenty-Four\u201d). A jest to wsp\u00f3\u0142czesna adaptacja cyklu pie\u015bni \u201eDie Winterreise\u201d Franza Schuberta pochodz\u0105cych z 1827 roku. Pr\u00f3\u017cno szuka\u0107 u Rascha romantycznych zawodze\u0144, nawet melancholijnych mrugni\u0119\u0107 oka w stron\u0119 tamtej epoki. Jego prace, jakie znalaz\u0142y si\u0119 na p\u0142ycie DVD \u201eaus vierundzwanzig\u201d, to raczej z\u0142o\u017cony i eksperymentalny projekt sk\u0142adaj\u0105cy si\u0119 z modu\u0142\u00f3w, kt\u00f3re to konsekwentnie odnosz\u0105 si\u0119 do takich poj\u0119\u0107 jak marginalizacja i spo\u0142eczna izolacja. Rasch woli sobie podrwi\u0107 z romantyzmu, ni\u017c go gloryfikowa\u0107. A robi to cz\u0119sto na przyk\u0142adzie prostych scen. Lubi te\u017c tworzy\u0107 cyniczne komentarze, np. do utworu Schuberta \u2013 \u201eThe Inn\u201d. Istotnymi cechami tw\u00f3rczo\u015bci\u0105 Rascha s\u0105 groteska, irracjonalno\u015b\u0107, surrealizm i przytomne spojrzenie na problemy wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnego \u015bwiata, kt\u00f3re potrafi przefiltrowa\u0107 przez pryzmat minionych stuleci.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowamuzyka.pl\/2016\/01\/29\/nowosci-z-gruenrekorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; aus vierundzwanzig | Uwe Rasch Schubertadaptionen &#8211; Ein Materialhaufen zu Franz Schuberts Winterreise English | Deutsch Gruen 161 |\u00a0DVD &gt; [order] Reviews &nbsp; Aus vierundzwanzig- \u2018Out of Twenty-Four\u2019 Since 2009 the composer Uwe Rasch has been working on a body of works called \u2018Out of Twenty-Four\u2019 (aus vierundzwanzig). 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