7IEBEN (aus: Der Spalt)

Text by Helmut Oehring (G). Graphics by Hagen Klennert

speaker, dancer(female), 3 deaf female soloists, male soprano, trb, elec.guitar, live electronics

At first it was only a rift.
At first nobody saw it.
It is supposed that rifts are caused where one
does not get deeply enough. Where a sort of void
is created like a vacuum bubble.
There is neither a scientifically reasonable
nor a theological explanation for that.
At first, The Rift sucks everything up through an only small
opening, and another place is created.
It is the non-place, absolute silence, without
hearing, without language.
Muddy. Principally, it is the Dark Grey Green.
There is everything else.
Fear. Silence. Horror. The race. The lake.

Poetic