Baritone Robert Koller and pianist Stefan Kägi recorded Othmar Schoeck’s song cycle “Nachhall” and Michael Emanuel Bauer’s commissioned work Afterimages. Bauer’s composition refers to the concept of hauntology, a musical movement within electronic music that developed in Great Britain in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The term itself goes back to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who in his book “Marx’s Ghosts,” how ideas from the past haunt the present and sometimes wreak havoc in it. In the aforementioned music genre, for example, synthesizers or BBC radio archive recordings from the 1970s are and were used.
In Afterimages, musical and biographical fragments from Schoeck’s work and life echo on the one hand, but on the other hand also songs by Franz Schubert, shoegazing from the 1990s, saxophone solos by Charlie Parker, the art brut of Adolf Wölfli, and films with and about Marilyn Monroe. In the reverberations, past visions of the future are also washed up, and this project therefore raises the question of what future should be strived for in today’s world in the face of ecological and social crises.
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Robert Koller: baritone
Stefan Kägi: piano
Michael Emanuel Bauer: composition
Dominykas Girčius: recording
Debaditya Bhowmik: graphic design
This project was made possible by:
Kulturförderung Winterthur
Stiftung Erna und Curt Bugauer
Kulturförderung Graubünden
Stiftung Casty-Buchmann Chur/Masans
Graubündner Kantonalbank