Ritual & Sex:Kill:Music

Orgy (excerpt)

Manifest von der Gesetzmäßigkeit des Lautes, 1986

Rohtöne (excerpt), 1986

The Garden Door, 1988/2011

Silence, 1989/2011

This is a musical miniature from the forthcoming album "Der Stimmenimitator" ("The Voice Imitator") based on 20 of the 104 short prose pieces Thomas Bernhard collected in his fabulously grim book of the same name in 1978.
Bernhard's literature contains a certain mercilessness. "The Voice Imitator" combines the harshness of his world and misanthropy with poetic sophistication and extravagant narrative maneuvers; this series of anecdotes is one of the least known, but most exciting works of the writer. The almost surrealistic wit so typical for Bernhard permeates these short stories – there are absurd fables, laconic death case studies and abysmal local news. The horror of the narrations is kept in suspension by the sarcastic conciseness of the author’s writing.
20 of the 104 prose pieces in the volume are currently being set to music by Austrian experimentalists Modell Doo, in collaboration with the actor Robert Reinagl, who otherwise works in the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater. The result will be neither an audio book nor a literary opera, but a completely new, possibly alien liaison of text and composition: 20 fierce sound miniatures in which prose performance and electronic avant-pop genuinely merge. Reinagl's ambiguous recitation reworks the protocol of the tragic-comic events that Bernhard unleashed with feverish insidiousness, while the music subverts both the acting and the text blocks themselves, thereby creating unimagined additional levels.  
The commemorations for Thomas Bernhard's 90th birthday are due in 2021. This new adaptation of The Voice Imitator will then serve in several ways to refresh the memory of Bernhard's incredible power of speech and contempt for death.

Zuviel

This is a second teaser for our upcoming album "Der Stimmenimitator" (The Voice Imitator) that will experimentally orchestrate 20 abysmal short stories by Thomas Bernhard.
"Keine Seele" means "No Soul" and deals with a medical dilemma.
Voice: Robert Reinagl.

Keine Seele

Here's a third miniature from the upcoming album "The Voice Imitator" (Der Stimmenimitator) that Austrian experimentalists Modell Doo are currently working on in cooperation with the very sophisticated actor Robert Reinagl and the sound researcher Bernhard Knibbe; like "Zuviel" it is one of the shortest (but also one of the most laconic) of the 20 pieces on the record. Enjoy!

Hotel Waldhaus

And here's a fourth pre-release teaser of the upcoming album The Voice Imitator. The drama of a comedian going suicidal before his ever-amused audience. Enjoy! --- And, if you can, join the group of supporters to make this luxurious physical product possible: https://wemakeit.com/projects/der-stimmenimitator-2020