ABSTRACT
“Since having been born onto this earth I have never seen my face from the outside.” 2 This is what Japanese writer Yoko Tawada responded when within an artistic dialogue I asked her to create a text which I, as a next step, wanted to take up in a live-electronic composition. Originally, my idea was to position two singers and two percussionists facing each other, one at each of the four sides of the concert hall, within which thirty-two electronically generated sound sources would be added. With this constellation I wanted to create wide-spaced mirror relationships between the four musicians and the artificial sound sites. The intention was that the mirror reflections would eventuate within musical structures as well as between the sound’s spatial refractions. And my hope with Yoko Tawada’s text was for it to complement such sonic and structural considerations by means of language, without my giving her conceptual guidelines.
