Nachtsprache, by Marc Behrens

Nachtsprache

by Marc Behrens

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[EN] “Nachtsprache” (“Night Tongue”, 2021) is a radio piece with and about dreams in German language. The title is borrowed from the lecture “Der Traum ist die Sprache des universalen Menschen” (1971) by the psychoanalyst, sociologist and philosopher Erich Fromm. Parts of the piece were actually conceived in dream and hypnagogic states.

Since 1987 I have been keeping dream diaries sporadically, then systematically from 2018 to the beginning of 2021. From April 2020 onwards, the diaries consist of recordings of my voice in half-sleep, and in a language that is just beginning to awaken from its dream state. With its mistakes, gaps, awkward repetitions and colloquial, halting style, it is left as it is. The erratic, disruptive, the non-linear and repetitive appear as important choreographic and musical ideas and principles in the audio piece “Nachtsprache” – so do the multiple and merging personae in dreams. These recordings, together with audio documents of two sleep laboratory situations from 2010 and 2021 as well as other sounds that can generate theta waves in the listeners, form the basis for “Nachtsprache”. In German language.
Marc Behrens

[DE] »Nachtsprache« (2021) ist ein Hörstück mit und über Träume. Der Titel ist dem Vortrag »Der Traum ist die Sprache des universalen Menschen« (1971) des Psychoanalytikers, Soziologen und Philosophen Erich Fromm entlehnt. Teile des Stückes wurden tatsächlich in Traum- und hypnagogen Zuständen konzipiert.

Seit 1987 führe ich sporadisch immer wieder Traumtagebücher, von 2018 bis Anfang 2021 systematisch. Seit April 2020 bestehen die Tagebücher aus Tonaufnahmen meiner Stimme im Halbschlaf, in einer Sprache, die gerade aus dem Traumzustand zu erwachen beginnt. Sie ist mit ihren Fehlern, Lücken, unbeholfenen Wiederholungen und in ihrem umgangssprachlichen, stockenden Duktus so belassen. Das Sprunghafte, Disruptive, das Nicht-Lineare und Repetitive erscheinen im Hörstück »Nachtsprache« als wichtige choreografische und musikalische Ideen und Prinzipien – ebenso wie die multiplen und ineinander übergehenden Personae in Träumen. Diese Sprachaufnahmen bilden zusammen mit Audioaufzeichnungen zweier Schlaflaborsituationen aus den Jahren 2010 und 2021 sowie weiteren Klängen, die bei den Hörenden Thetawellen erzeugen können, die Basis für »Nachtspache«.
Marc Behrens

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released February 1, 2024

[EN] “Nachtsprache” was created in 2021 as a commissioned work for the Hessian Broadcasting Company (Radio Frankfurt) and was first broadcast on 6 March 2021 in hr2-kultur. Producer: Stefan Fricke (Editorial office Contemporary Music | Jazz | Sound Art).
[DE] »Nachtsprache« entstand 2021 als Auftragswerk für den Hessischen Rundfunk und wurde erstmals am 6. März 2021 in hr2-kultur gesendet. Produzent: Stefan Fricke (Redaktion Neue Musik | Jazz | Klangkunst).

Acknowledgements / Danksagungen: Alma Toaspern, Rocio Marano, Susanne Grau.
References / Referenzen: Leonora Carrington, Stephen LaBerge, Meret Oppenheim, Georges Perec, Arno Schmidt.

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Marc Behrens

Marc Behrens works with electronic and concrete music, installation, performance, photography, text and video. He exhibited artworks or performed in many European countries, in South Africa, Chile, USA, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Israel and Palestine. Since 1989 Behrens has released more than 30 music albums. He founded Availabel in 2014. ... more

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