Music and theater performance
"Maulwerker" is a collective of musical theater creators and composers from Berlin (Germany). They are distinguished by their unique style of interdisciplinary performative music creation, specializing in the intersections of music and theater, music and language, music and space, sound and silence. Maulwerker means mouth workers. These artist-musicians are known as pioneers of experimental musical theatre, combining vocal performance and action with everyday objects, integrating elements of performance art and contemporary choreography.
"I Think, Life Is A Lot Simpler Than That" is a new work (performance) by this group consisting of audiovisual compositions for bodies, voices, objects and videos.
The performance includes:
Fountain, Steffi Weismann,
TAKT SINN (Sense of Tact), Fernanda Farah,
Intérieur à 1 (Interior 1), Michael Hirsch,
Nycticebus coucang (Dwarf camel), Ariane Jessulat,
Song of Uncertain Length, Emmett Williams,
Drip Music, George Brecht,
Solo for Sick Man, George Maciunas,
Bauernszene (Peasant Scene), Dieter Schnebel,
Manodharma with Mr. Y (Manodharma with Mr. Y), Takehisa Kosugi,
Give Paw!, Neo Hülcker,
d!ssoc!at!on_study_2, Jule Flierl,
Poem für 1 Springer (Poem for 1 Dancing Man), Dieter Schnebel,
Eiszeit (Ice Age) Katarina Rasinski.
Fragments of some songs are played throughout the performance. Some new compositions are created as a bridge between old ones, the motifs of which are repeated. Some works are performed simultaneously to create a special experience of space and a different sense of time.
More about Maulwerker
They took their name from a series of compositions by Dieter Schnebel, one of the most important initiators of the new music theater in the German-speaking world. Maulwerker is a vocal practice that explores the entire human vocal apparatus, from the diaphragm to the skull, from singing to breathing. 20th century in the 1960s, this practice was interpreted against the background of sexual liberation, but now it is interpreted more analytically. Different types of breathing can be associated with different states or feelings, such as rapid breathing with effort or fear. In the theater, these techniques are used to convey exactly those feelings, while in the musical theater there is a tendency to abandon the assignment of meanings and focus on more abstract relations of the material.
* During the performance, the man's partially naked body is shown and is only visible during brief moments of flashes of light.
