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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Hans Koch-Martin Schutz-Fredy Studer
t i t l e : Live Im Schiffbau
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : Intakt
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : Sep-2004
t r a c k s : 14
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 109,7 MB
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Hans Koch: Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone,
Electronics, Samples, Sequencer
Martin Schutz: Electric 5string Cello, Acoustic Cello,
Electronics, Samples, Sequencer
Fredy Studer: Drums, Percussion
Christian Uetz: Spoken Poetry
Produced by Koch-Schutz-Studer
Recorded by Daniel Schneider at Schauspielhaus im Schiffbau,
Zurich, Switzerland, October 27, 2000
Released 2002
What is the Word and how does it relate to reality? What is the
meaning of sound and how does it affect the human mind and
body? Such existential questions are raised by the production
on this CD. Even more: it penetrates the perception of word and
music to its very depth.
Christian Uetz's texts are inspired and moved by the sound and
the meaning of words. With concentration and utter alertness he
follows the tracks of meaning as well as the traces of sound, a
procedure which juxtaposes and assembles contents seemingly by
chance. His often fast and daring associative leaps and his
breathtaking speed of reading recall the storms of thought -
and at the same time, the impossibility of verbalizing those
thoughts - as experienced in psychedelic states.
The texts which are created in this way imply an inner logic:
the sometimes eager, sometimes desperate search provokes the
listener to expect (or else to create) meaning. Uetz, however,
does not fulfill this expectation. As soon as meaning begins to
take shape, he cuts the thread, evades and deprives the
listener of the security and the comfort of understanding.
Linguistic capers, word-transformations and resulting
neologisms put his texts on yet a different level of meaning.
The listener is forced to have thoughts and feelings of his
own. He will approve or disapprove, will follow or refuse to go
along, and will thus take part in the process of creation.
Koch-Schutz-Studer support this process with their highly
sensitive sound-machinery. They react to the spoken word like
seismographs, sometimes in agreement with the speaker and
sometimes not. The musical answer stands for itself. It is not
simply a translation or a sound-mirror of the texts. Radiating
from their inner selves the speaker "sings" and the musicians
"speak", thus opening a new dimension to the listener's
experience: language is turned into music and music becomes
eloquent language.
The instrumentalits amplify the "supra-level" of comprehension
with their flow of sound and noise. Hardly audible, still
undetermined vibrations become condensed into cosmic "joyful
noise", sound-waves of submerged haziness suddenly become
focussed into crystal-clear tone-cascades. Ecstasy is the
ultimate goal of all the shocks and eruptions. Numbing and
painful loudness leads the listener to his innermost self,
according to Zen: to his inner breath. The arising emptiness
makes consciousness implode. The intensity of sound originates
from the intensity of silence. The silence, loaded with tension
and boundless energy, bursts out into sound and then falls back
into silence again. The path is full of risks, there are
moments which are dangerous and frightening, and others which
are of overwhelming magnitude and beauty.
Koch-Schutz-Studer and Christian Uetz are unified by the
intensity of their expression: the absolute concentration of
their "being-within-themselves" as well as by the strength of
their "getting-out-of-themselves" keeps them intimately bound
together.
The listener is forced to participate whether he wants to or
not. Being exposed to the texts and to the music he will
generate images and thoughts of his own. Light-, colour- and
space-transformations will ultimately complete the experience
into a "Gesamtkunstwerk".
Beny von Moos. English-Translation: Markus Jans
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01-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 1 [03:30]
02-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 2 [09:33]
03-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 3 [08:11]
04-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 4 [03:33]
05-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 5 [02:35]
06-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 6 [03:00]
07-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 7 [05:51]
08-Im Anfang War Das Wort, Part 8 [02:20]
09-Wihrr Sinnds, Wihrr Wihrr! Part 1 [04:11]
10-Wihrr Sinnds, Wihrr Wihrr! Part 2 [04:05]
11-Wihrr Sinnds, Wihrr Wihrr! Part 3 [04:32]
12-Wihrr Sinnds, Wihrr Wihrr! Part 4 [03:24]
13-Adieu, Part 1 [03:54]
14-Adieu, Part 2 [01:47]
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60:26 min
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