Symphony for
Wind and Waves
Performance, text, and drawings Performed in Hiddensee, August 17, 2018
Composition drawings for Symphony
for Wind and Waves, 2018
Ink on paper
51 x 36 cm
Prologue
where wind hits water for the first time, waves begin to stir: at the heart of the ocean:
a young wave speaks: wind, take me. - wind: who do you think you are, wrinkled mirror of the sky? - i have no face - you are no one - touch me then, i am a breathing muscle - and i’m a rising laugh - tickle my spine and make my crest rise - let’s sing together in our mother-tongues - i’m not blue-eyed, i can feel your speed - i make you wave, make you my wave - you dream of me at night - i never sleep, i only breathe - i have been a thousand waves - i swear on my hungry mouth, i don't remember the past - i betray you - i devour you - dance with me higher - chase me, i chase you - fear me, i don’t fear you. i’m head-high and I inhale you! - land in sight! someone woos me there - on my white horse, i put a spell on you, because you're mine - come and get me then!, the wind laughs.
left behind the angry water stomps onto shore.
“… i’m not composing a vision, i am composing the sea. the living landscape spreads out before me. waves approach. just like in my notes. i breathe out the. wind. waves run side by side. we look at each other. i take out the score and start conducting, the rhythm reveals the rhyme. the beat hits me. washes away all thoughts.” The diary of a nameless composer reveals her obsession with the sea; she continuously recorded all measurable parameters of its surge. “concentrated so hard on the anatomy of the waves today, i hardly noticed how they entered me. as if my entrails had been replaced by howling waters. wind 10 m/s, wave 6 ft, phase 4 sec, 6 a. m., low tide. something has sunk deep within me. just decipher, decipher it .” Having meticulously collected data for years, observing the groundswell, measuring windspeed, the height and interval of waves, she finally. cracks the code, breaks the wave. Based on this discovery she writes a symphony for wind and waves and finally performs the piece, conducting the sea. “i saw the wave see me.”
Symphony for
Wind and Waves
Performance, text, and drawings Performed in Hiddensee, August 17, 2018
Composition drawings for Symphony
for Wind and Waves, 2018
Ink on paper
51 x 36 cm
“… i’m not composing a vision, i am composing the sea. the living landscape spreads out before me. waves approach. just like in my notes. i breathe out the. wind. waves run side by side. we look at each other. i take out the score and start conducting, the rhythm reveals the rhyme. the beat hits me. washes away all thoughts.” The diary of a nameless composer reveals her obsession with the sea; she continuously recorded all measurable parameters of its surge. “concentrated so hard on the anatomy of the waves today, i hardly noticed how they entered me. as if my entrails had been replaced by howling waters. wind 10 m/s, wave 6 ft, phase 4 sec, 6 a. m., low tide. something has sunk deep within me. just decipher, decipher it .” Having meticulously collected data for years, observing the groundswell, measuring windspeed, the height and interval of waves, she finally. cracks the code, breaks the wave. Based on this discovery she writes a symphony for wind and waves and finally performs the piece, conducting the sea. “i saw the wave see me.”