Redeübungen für Hand und Mund (1985)

Ti­tle of the album: Laut-Gesten-Laute
Ti­tle: Redeübungen für Hand und Mund (Track 01)
Publisher: Edition Michael Frauenlob Bauer, Frankfurt
Da­te: 1985/86, publ. 1989
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm
Performers: D. Schnebel, Lothar Lämmer, Béatrice Mathez-Wüthrich

The piece " Redeübungen für Hand und Mund" ("Speech Exercises for Hand and Mouth") comprises an experimental-playful and, at the same time, precise articulation exercise.  Dieter Schnebel does not form words but explores the vocal and tonal possibilities of body, gestures and movement.

Sometimes humming, sometimes as if croaking, then babbling, energetic or almost breathless, the variations of sound productions string together, partly accompanied and tonally influenced by rhythmic clapping and slapping noises of the hands.

The piece was recorded in June 1985, at night in the Dornbuschkirche, Frankfurt.

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