pasdedeuX

In pasdedeuX, 16 identical turntables with built-in amplifier and loudspeaker are arranged as a square 4x4 cluster on the floor. At each turntable leans a transparent LP in a white envelope. Each LP has been recorded with an eight-minute individual speech- and sound composition. 2 performers enter the field. Slowly and in succession, they start playing the LPs and operating the turntables. They move, communicating quietly, listening to each other through the turntable field, watching the other's actions, pausing, moving again and reacting 'musically'. From the beginning, the audience becomes the observer of a laboratory that does not become aware of this observation at any moment. Text fragments are spoken, addressed to the space, sometimes turned to the partner while operating a device. One communicates references and puts on ones own voice from LP. A dialogue can arise. What was originally marketed and postulated as progress led instantaneously to a creeping sense of loss, which helped to put the supposedly outdated in another state of perception allowing it to be questioned in a different way. The swiftly accumulated media scrap turned into another instrument. Playing records and the altered, partly aggressive handling of obsolete media technology leads to a performative recoding of the meanwhile historic string of signs. Every switch, every move, every content, even the context of use becomes tangible and can be re-combined and transposed into the now