Chamber Music

“A sound comedy where the action of the performers is directed by strange sounds. Music and meal, music and dinner: Two bourgeois rituals are combined after musical structures. The novelty, as it seems to me, is that the sound material develops the plot and not the emotions or the psyche. The history of the bourgeoisie and its society is told by their/its music. The scope of this music reaches from sounds produced by the body (repressed and inhibited) to classical music (where evidently the bodily poses are completely stiffened) and to the sounds of war. The sound anticipates the image and the image the sound, e.g. laughter becomes the sound of fishes, suddenly you see fish beside the dishes instead of the spoons. When the fish are put in the soup, the sound disappears.”