PHACE - ForMoreEars - irrealities © Markus Bruckner
PHACE / Chen
»Irréalités / Unrealities«
Tuesday
11
February
2025
19:30 – ca. 20:45
Berio-Saal
Performers
PHACE
Peyee Chen, Stimme
Thomas J. Jelinek, Raumkonzeption, Medienregie, Lichtdesign
Programme
Januibe Tejera
Lost Alphabet (2023–2024) (UA)
Kompositionsauftrag von PHACE
Note
Freie Platzwahl
Subscription series
PHACE
Links
https://www.phace.at
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Lost Alphabet
In »Lost Alphabet«, Januibe Tejera explores those strange feelings between strangeness and rediscovery that arise when moving or relocating, when changing the center of one's life. The starting point are selected passages from Lisa Olstein's poetry collection of the same name, in which nature - as a constant reference and at the same time as a completely formless model -, the real and the unreal intertwine. On this textual basis (voice: Peyee Chen), Tejera's music approaches those continuous and natural processes of alienation experienced by those who commute between different countries, continents, social classes and cultural models, and at the same time enters into a musical dialog with the composer's homeland. Embedded in a spatial-visual concept (Thomas J. Jelinek), the concert evening reflects a peculiarity of human beings, namely the ability to perceive and reflect on life as something external, accompanied by the complete impossibility of understanding life or attributing precise meaning to it. Like a language that we forget while learning it at the same time, like an alphabet that develops while it fades - a lost alphabet that we try to understand.