THE FALL OF RECORDING
Vol. I
at
Sanatorium Dźwięku
Sokołowsko
13/08/2016
Gaudenz
Badrutt
Alicja Bielawska
Bożenna Biskupska
Alessandro Bosetti
Johnny Chang
Bryan Eubanks
Emilio Gordoa
Jonas Kocher
Daniel
Koniusz
Gerard Lebik
Michał Libera
Xavier Lopez
Mike Majkowski
Daniel Muzyczuk
Keith Rowe
Valerio Tricoli
“I
don't want to die. I want to live”. Several notes placed neatly on
musical staff, quite catchy lyrics, you may say, and short
introduction from a composer, forms altogether almost a song. But the
song written down on 26th
of Febraury 1903 by a Czech composer Leoš Janáček in his notebook
bears a different authorship than his own; he himself was nothing
more but a recording device for an unintentional song of his dying
daughter, Olga. These were her last words, and a last melody, uttered
in bed just before she passed away; almost a swan song addressed to
her father sitting by the bed but also to a man obsessed by the
everyday passing of melodies of the world we live in. Words, noises,
screams, animals and doors, hundreds of different birds and dogs and
finally also his dying daughter found their ways to form short songs
in his notebooks via the language of music notation. So do we know
the final expression of his daughter? It's all there, on the staff.
Perhaps a song, and if so, definitely of swan kind, a document or a
memoir but also an emblem of the entire myth of recording media – a
song made of dying and about dying or in other words: a recorded song
about recording...
... to be continued in Sokołowsko
