{"id":9439,"date":"2017-12-23T13:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ima.or.at\/?page_id=9439"},"modified":"2017-12-23T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T13:50:14","slug":"le-voyage-du-paradis-1987-88","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/le-voyage-du-paradis-1987-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Le voyage du paradis 1987\/88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>F\u00fcnf Bilder nach Fragmenten von Robert Musil. Stimme  Gunda K\u00f6nig. 1987 im Auftrag der<br \/>\nINA\/GRM Paris in deren Studios entstanden. Magisterium Prize, Bourges, 1988<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dieter Kaufmann has taken the following fragments from the sketch \u201cJourney to Paradise\u201d in Robert Musil\u2019s novel The Man without Qualities, using the computer to transform them musically. During August and December 1986, 28 segments, ranging in duration from 10 seconds to 3 minutes, were realised in studio 123 of the GRM, and were used as the tape component of the vocal theatre piece Journey to Paradise. For the GRM commission, Kaufmann composed an autonomous electro-acoustic work using these musical elements, all of them based on Gunda K\u00f6nig\u2019s voice. Robert Musil\u2019s sketch is about the love between the twins Ulrich and Agathe, and the impossibility of prolonging \u201cthe exceptional state\u201d of this pure love into eternity. In one passage of the text, Musil speaks of \u201cthe secret voluptuousness of the hermaphrodite who, divided into two separate beings, finds each identity without anyone touching them and guessing their secret\u201d. The composition tries to uncover something of this secret by uniting the words and their music.<\/p>\n<p>sand \/ boats \/ murmuring of people \/ further \/ arrivals \/ sound of a fountain \/ beautiful the distant world like a faint noise \/ at the centre of their hearts \/ at the centre of his\/her heart \/ at the centre of my heart \/ now we can dream, the senses are drifting off to sleep \/ she said, smiling, laughed smile \/ beautiful \/ perfect, perfection, beauty, perfect beauty \u2013 an animal, a portrait, a woman \/ happiness in sadness \u2013 sadness in happiness chisel, sharp as a ray of shadow at midday \/ two pairs of eyes straining \/ examine objects \/ she murmured, a lucid terror like midday seemed to wring her heart (the greatest ordeal was always the sea) \/ pitiless mistress, rival, examination of conscience \/ bells \/ silent things, not at all clear \/ a love of the lack of love, gently holding out hands worry, summer, burning, the sun smouldering, fre \/ great beloved, peacock tail, beloved \/ oval mirror, the beloved, the beloved\u2019s eye \/ emptiness everywhere \/ rainy day \/ the gates of paradise \/ gates of paradise<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00fcnf Bilder nach Fragmenten von Robert Musil. Stimme Gunda K\u00f6nig. 1987 im Auftrag der INA\/GRM Paris in deren Studios entstanden. Magisterium Prize, Bourges, 1988 Dieter Kaufmann has taken the following fragments from the sketch \u201cJourney to Paradise\u201d in Robert Musil\u2019s novel The Man without Qualities, using the computer to transform them musically. During August and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9440,"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9439\/revisions\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archiv.ima.or.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}