BARTLEBY SPEAKS TO KAUFMANN

Audio installation
In cooperation with Robin Carpenter


Architecture as an instrument. The Hebbel theatre successively transformed Bartleby's refusal into an instrumental spatial composition. The text excerpt from 'Bartleby, the scrivener' spoken live by Robin Carpenter was recorded. The recording was then played back into the theatre space and recorded by a second computer. This process of playing and recording was repeated continuously. Slowly, the spatial vibrations of the theatre space transformed the text into a composition of architecture. During the five-hour recording at night, only the language of Bartleby was present in the Hebbel Theatre.

After the recording was finished, it was played into the theatre space as a loop at two locations via loudspeakers until the end of the occupation.

Documentation of the recording - Total playing time: 52,26 min

Track	Name	Dauer	Komponisten
01	040421_0147h_two01	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
02	040421_0252h_two02	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
03	040421_0301h_two03	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
04	040421_0305h_two04	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
05	040421_0311h_two05	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
06	040421_0319h_two06	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
07	040421_0324h_two07	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
08	040421_0329h_two08	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
09	040421_0336h_two09	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
10	040421_0343h_two10	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
11	040421_0348h_two11	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
12	040421_0352h_two12	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
13	040421_0356h_two13	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
14	040421_0401h_two14	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
15	040421_0410h_two15	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
16	040421_0414h_two16	2:07	Carpenter & Schuster
17	040421_0419h_two17	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
18	040421_0423h_two18	2:05	Carpenter & Schuster
19	040421_0427h_two19	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
20	040421_0432h_two20	2:07	Carpenter & Schuster
21	040421_0438h_two21	2:07	Carpenter & Schuster
22	040421_0441h_two22	2:07	Carpenter & Schuster
23	040421_0444h_two23	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
24	040421_0448h_two24	2:06	Carpenter & Schuster
25	040421_0451h_two25	2:07	Carpenter & Schuster

Belagerung B- a theatral installative interruption for 100 hours. A project in the Hebbel theatre Berlin on 21. 04. - 25. 04. 2004.

Bartleby, the scrivener (1853) of Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Oskar Kaufmann (1873 - 1956) Hungarian architect and interieur designer. Architect of the Hebbel theatre and the Volksbühne Berlin

The installation is inspired by the work 'I am sitting in a room' (1969) by Alvin Lucier. (electroacoustic music and computer music: History - aesthetics - methods - systems - author: Martin Supper)