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Composition

The Devil's Kitchen is a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) in which sound and text come together as equals. Fragmentation and polarization (our core themes) shape both the form and the content of the work.

In The Devil's Kitchen, music becomes language and language becomes music. Conceived as a spoken opera, the work is located at the intersection of techno and musique concrète.

Hence in The Devil's Kitchen we work mainly with ‚found‘ (pre-existing) sound, noise and text objects, which we link, combine and/or merge in the form of monologues, dialogues and polylogues on three levels: the world of thought (inner struggle); the dialogical plane; and the outside world, the world of the many (outer struggle).

The movement here goes sometimes from the inside out, sometimes from the outside in, from the individual to the many and from the many to the individual.

Thus thoughts turn into positions and – where polarisation occurs – fronts emerge.

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