denkbilder
2016-17
denkbilderfor ensemble
| Instrumentation: | alto flute/piccolo, Bb/bass clarinet, oboe/eng. horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello |
| Premiere: | 30 april 2017, Brussels; Odysseia Ensemble |
| Duration: | approx. 12 minutes |
| Commissioned by: | Odysseia Ensemble |
| Score: | Contact the composer |
| Program note: |
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The thought-image (Denkbild)—a word used by Walter Benjamin as a kind of generic term for his own shorter text-pieces—can be seen as lying at the heart of his work on thinking-in-images (Bilddenken). His thought-images are dialectical images in written form, literally constellationsbecome-writing (Schrift-gewordene Konstellationen).The concept of images has nothing to do with the history of material images, nor with a ‘mental image’ but as a constellation of resemblances which is figured in a third, beyond a form-content relation.
Missing from the thought-image are the formal features of narrativization. One searches in vain for a central subject or a clearly defined plot development but rather it’s a constant flight from place to place to place. |
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