Beschreibung

bSHH #1 is a short solo piece about 4 minutes, for no instrument but a head. In this composition, all movement details are written in the score explicitly, not like an improvisation.
The piece may be played simultaneously by multiple soloists, but they don’t have to synchronize with each other: every musician plays each time just for one person/audience member. This single audience member wears a pair of ear plugs during the performance, to make sure that they don’t hear too much from the concert hall or the surroundings, but rather the sound from one’s own head through the skull and ear plugs. The ‚instruments‘ are the hair, ears and the skin on the face (if present, also the beard) of the audience member, the musician plays wearing a pair disposable gloves.
The point is, the musician can’t hear the performance (nor can any other audience in the vicinity), but only feels it from their own hands/fingers. For the single audience member who is played, it is absolutely a private play just for them, and they can not only hear it, but especially also feel it.

The SHH series has 2 pieces: SHH #1 is a live performance piece, and SHH #2 is a sound installation for two speakers. Both pieces can run separately, or together for one event. SHH #2 can be an installation part surrounding a live performance of SHH #1. If it is a long exhibition event, SHH #2 can also run as a durational sound installation. SHH #2 is a recording, which is the same sound material as the live performance and obtainable from Verlag Neue Musik as well. When people walk around, they can hear the recording to make out what’s going on with the live performance. It also means that they have the chance to hear the sound from somebody’s ear, which is totally anti-private.