Powder

Grind, disassemble, crush, trample, destroy, smash, shatter, splinter, talk, think, demoralise, disintegrate: POWDER.

What happens to the superfluous, the remnants and old burdens, the unwanted, the waste, the rest? A pianist (Clara Frühstück) and a performer and tap dancer (Mani Obeya) meet an industrial shredder. The performative stage space (Samuel Schaab) sets a process in motion that dissolves sound patterns and captures everything in its path. An endless flood of material is crushed, crushed, crushed with full physical effort. Clara Frühstück swaps the grand piano for a keyboard sculpture built by Schaab and filled with piano fragments and piano powder by Sixtus Preiss (sound design). The text developed by Ferdinand Schmalz especially for the evening swirls through the room in shimmering pigments and settles: as part of a composition for plastic remnants, sound particles, a dozen plastic keyboards, sand, speech remnants, dust.

The author Ferdinand Schmalz for PULVER

I will take it all back.
everything I have ever produced
disassemble again,
I will start here,
with everything that is dear to me,
i'm going to shred my household goods,
put my papers through the shredder,
smash my appliances with a stone,
I'm going to use a wrecking ball
tear down my four walls,
my bed in painstaking detail,
grind together,
i'm going to set fire to my library,
I will extinguish myself,
to finally be whole again.

Talc to powder
with Clara Frühstück, Samuel Schaab and Mani Obeya
Fri, 26.09. ca 21.00 (after the event)
Location: Zacherlfabrik

A production by IG MELO in co-production with Musiktheatertage Wien. 

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