A moment later, I remember the baby tigers became rocks, the wound and your eyesocktets were still purple and you left for the bridge.

CHANTS D’AMOUR is a collection of songs about what happened that one night, by the river, past the tunnel. Through communal rehearsals, singing, playing and recording it celebrates, searches for and mourns the lost (dream-)threads, leading to our oldest memory and beginning of desire.

Performance (Guitar, Voice, Narration), Text - An-Laurence Higgins
Composition, Electronics, Text - Elischa Kaminer

Recorded at OBORO Studio
Engineered by Stéphane Claude
Produced by NO HAY BANDA
Mastered by Queer Ear Mastering

Chants D'amour (excerpts)

four lovesongs - 2

for string quintet and electronics
in collaboration with Viola Bittl
http://studios.basis-frankfurt.de/user/vibittl

Musik mit Viola

TABLEAU VIVANT - Grand Opening: Ma Nischtana (feat. Sara Cubarsi + The Pointer Sisters)

In 1977, NASA launched its Voyager program. On board the spacecraft was a golden phonograph, the Voyager Golden Records. The phonograph – containing images and sounds found on earth, as well as recordings of greetings in fifty-five languages and a one hour long recording of the brainwaves of An Druyan – was intended as an interstellar message to any extra-terrestrial or far-future human civilization, documenting life and human existence on earth. 

golden records (bable) invites an ensemble of 8 musicians into an imitation game, in which cycles of translations, mutations and interpretations of the original sound material found on the Voyager phonograph unfold a choreography of voices that shift through various gradings of inter-and independence of the musicians’ respective vocabularies aswell as their varying relationships to the score. 

The notion of language as both a devisive as well as connecting modulator, finds its analogy in the tower of bable narrative.  Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves”

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.

‘Earlier I had asked Carl if those putative extraterrestrials of a billion years from now could conceivably interpret the brain waves of a meditator. Who knows? A billion years is a long, long time, was his reply. On the chance that it might be possible why don't we give it a try?
Two days after our life-changing phone call, I entered a laboratory at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and was hooked up to a computer that turned all the data from my brain and heart into sound. I had a one-hour mental itinerary of the information I wished to convey. I began by thinking about the history of Earth and the life it sustains. To the best of my abilities I tried to think something of the history of ideas and human social organization. I thought about the predicament that our civilization finds itself in and about the violence and poverty that make this planet a hell for so many of its inhabitants. Toward the end I permitted myself a personal statement of what it was like to fall in love.’

- An Druyan, in the epilogue of Billions and Billions on her experience of recording her brainwaves for the Voyager Golden Records



For two vocalists, Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Cello, Double Bass, Piano and Percussion. 
Duration: 20 min
First performed at the Waterloo Festival London by ensemble x.y, July 2017

golden records (Babel) - Excerpt 3

golden records (Babel) - Excerpt 2

golden records (Babel) - Excerpt 1

composer/performer/theatremaker/more bread crumbs here 
www.elischakaminer.com

Associate Composer 2021-2023 @nonclassical - www.nonclassical.co.uk
Artistic director @ London based Ensemble x.y  - www.ensemblexy.com
Naked singing mermaid @ Berlin based queer-feminist performance collective CHICKS*  www.chicksperformance.de

Elischa Kaminer

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