Changeant (2004)
for voice and tape ad libitum, text: Karin Spielhofer
Duration: 12 min.
Performance material available from Boosey & Hawkes
YouTube (Salome Kammer)
see the essay in: Stimme, Ausdruck, Philosophie - Philosophische Erkundungen von Neuer Musik (Hg: Violetta Waibel, Salome Kammer) - edition text+kritik 2024
Changeant (2004): Performanz und Performativität ... Versuch einer Rekonstruktion des Kompositionsprozesses (2021)
"...The highlight of the performance is that the composer, as she herself writes, wanted to accentuate a feminist programme to a certain extent with Changeant , in the 'guise of a work of art' (a score), in order to 'defy the symbolic order' and pose new questions about performance and representation.
Seen in this light, the piece is also a triumph of the singer (and composer) over the written word, over the symbolic order. Or to put it another way: ter Schiphorst wanted to disappear as a composer in order to reappear as a composer ."
(from the introduction by the editor Prof. Violetta Waibel)