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Not I

Monodram für Sopran, Tonband (oder Live-Elektronik) und Video
Text von Samuel Beckett
soprano, tape (or live electronics) and video
Edition: Performance material

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A woman of around 70 stands in the middle of the stage. She speaks in an unbroken stream of words, sentences and fragments. Individual events from her life can just be made out among this linguistic torrent: she imagines herself lying down with her face in the grass, she sees herself in the supermarket, or sitting on a hill in Ireland and repeatedly recalls her inability to speak, restrain the rush of words and thoughts and make herself understood. She is convinced that she is being punished by God, even though she cannot fathom the reason for this. She realises however that God does not need a reason to punish her. She is sure that she has something to say, but does not know what. If she only speaks for long enough, she will discover what it is she has to ask for forgiveness for. The curtain falls.
Beckett‘s works which was premiered in New York in 1972 is an essay in the loss of identity and the drifting apart of ‘I’ and ‘not I’. Heinz Holliger approaches this seemingly unstructured flow of words containing only four precisely placed pauses with a vocal line dismembered through complex rhythms and wide intervals and a medium of duplication: a tape produced by the composer superimposes a playback above the vocal line, displacing, curtailing and fragmenting what is sung and employing a mechanical mechanism to surmount the compulsive speech.

Orchestral Cast

Das Zuspielband (vierkanalig auf DVD) ist beim Verlag erhältlich.

More Information

Title:
Not I
Monodram für Sopran, Tonband (oder Live-Elektronik) und Video
Text von Samuel Beckett
Language:
English
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1978 - 1980
Duration:
35 ′
World Premiere:
July 15, 1980 · Avignon (F)
Phyllis Bryn-Julson, soprano · Conductor: Heinz Holliger und Thomas Kessler, Klangregie
Original staging: Bernard Sobel · Costumes: Titina Maselli · Set desing: Titina Maselli
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Vasso Devetzi for the IRCAM (Paris)

Technical Details

Product number:
LS 2310-01

Performances

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  • Not I
    Lucerne Festival
    September 7, 2019 | Luzern (Switzerland) , Südpol
  • Not I
    Conductor: Dirk Erdelkamp
    February 15, 2013 | Gelsenkirchen (Germany) , Kunstmuseum
  • Not I
    Conductor: Dirk Erdelkamp
    December 9, 2012 | Gelsenkirchen (Germany) , Kunstmuseum
  • Not I
    Conductor: Rodrigo Tomillo
    June 25, 2011 | Kaiserslautern (Germany) , Museum Pfalzgalerie
  • Not I
    Conductor: Rodrigo Tomillo
    June 14, 2011 | Kaiserslautern (Germany) , Museum Pfalzgalerie
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