dépôt de beau songe for electric bass con arco, voices, noises

„The architecture of the brain as a model for complex urban structures?“ – This essay by brain researcher Wolf Singer inspired composer Norbert Walter Peters to superimpose neuronal, urban and musical figures.
The city of Paris becomes the material of a composition about thinking, remembering and forgetting. Texts by Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust meet the speech of people who have partially lost their linguistic memory. Instrumental sounds and city sounds rhythmise the composition to the beat of neuronal vibrations.

Credits

Composition and realisation: Norbert Walter Peters
Voice: Max Volkert Martens
Singer: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
Electric Bass: Janko Hanushevsky

Production: Deutschlandradio Kultur 2010
Length: 52’10

Norbert Walter Peters, born 1954 in Stolberg, Aachen district, composer, realizes sound installations and radio compositions.

Date: 05. March 2010
Composition: Norbert Walter Peters
Production/Festival: Deutschlandradio Radio Play
Place: Berlin