concert performance by Georg Klein and Tetsuo Furudate
TESLA Berlin, produced and live broadcasted by DeutschlandRadio
Art's Birthday 2006, january 17th (orig. duration: 90min.)
for 4 speakers and 4 feedback loudspeakers by Georg Klein and Maulwerker (Michael Hirsch, Ariane Jessulat, Christian Kesten, Steffi Weismann)
alterating with a sound, text and dance performance by Tetsuo Furudate and Miho Iwata

In realizing Dadayama in 2006, the composers Georg Klein and Tetsuo Furudate created a
spatial and sound situation that reflects on Dadaisms in Germany and Japan from today’s
point of view.
Georg Klein’s independent composition for the Maulwerker and live electronics works mostly
with fine, unobtrusive tones that organically adapt themselves to the situation at hand.
Positioned symmetrically along the long sides of the space are four separate loudspeakers,
which Georg Klein has assigned to the four Maulwerker ensemble performers. Each vocalist
is equipped with a small radio microphone that transmits to one of the loudspeakers. An
acoustic mirroring situation develops in which the performers communicate with their
acoustic feedback. Soft mouth sounds and merely grazing the microphone with the skin turn
into larger-than-life musical events. The microphone penetrates the speech sounds.
Feedback from mouth, body and loudspeaker mix with the words of Dadaist texts, especially
the Dadaists’ self-definitions and statements about themselves.