Klang Der Haut Ausschnitt
from Radiokunst von Andreas Bick Hosted by Andreas Bick
Excerpt of a radioart composition, produced by Studio Akustische Kunst, WDR 3, In collaboration with Claudia de Serpa Soares and Nicola Mascia of the Schaubühne Berlin Dance Ensemble and with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg. First broadcast: 30th November 2002 on WDR3 "Our skin is the sounding resonating vessel of our soul, the membrane that separates us from the outside world, both a protective layer and a sensory organ. Without skin contact, human beings must die – it is only another’s touch that gives us identity and makes us human. At the same time, skin in its ambivalent double role stands for the possible merging of two individuals and for the physical impossibility of true union. Now that humankind has been robbed of its spirituality, the sexual act as the ultimate form of touch is the last remaining experience of transcendence. In Der Klang der Haut, two people join together in search of this ultimate experience in mutual dissolution. The tentative sound of their touch is the language of the bodies whose borders they cannot cross. The topography of these bodies is mapped using a many-layered range of bowed sounds that invoke and celebrate the rituals of love and the pain of separation."
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