Susanne Peters, bass flute 
Audio, video recording x editing ǀ Samuel Fried

“A whole world of pain is contained in these words.’ How can it be contained in
them? - It is bound up with them. The words are like an acorn from which an
oak tree can grow.”
After reading this passage, confusion and curiosity led me to compose a piece to
explore questions/reactions occurred in my mind. One of the first questions is
that how can one be emotionally affected from a sentence which has no
intention to be poetic or dramatic but only to exemplify a language phenomenon
in a direct way. The thing made me to use this sentence as a text is its potential
to evoke ideas and emotions by forcing one to make associations in one’s mind.
Otherwise the sentence won’t show where/how “A whole world of pain is
contained.”. This dependency on individual association networks opens the
doors for multiple meaning.
Multiple meaning corresponds to multiple perspective of time, aesthetic and
narrative in the piece. The piece is built on interactions and isolations between
these aspects. Differences and familiarities between blocks in terms of these
aspects evolve to three sections because of proportional alterations.
In the piece, I used the sentence in many different ways, sometimes as musical
material based on its phonetic structure, sometimes to create a theatrical drama
between voice and flute, sometimes very direct and plain, sometimes melted in
texture and sometimes by focusing on its syntactic construction to shape the
form of the piece.

Phenomenalistic Blackouts (2021)for bass flute

Arda Bayram