Carola Bauckholt: Stroh

für Sopran, Mezzosopran, Bariton und Bass

(2012)

I am attracted by the individual voice color. Therefore, I reduced the instrumentation to four voices–a transparent quartet. In the piano, the timbre is perceptible in a more differentiated way. In the depth, the sound is more physical. Then I’m interested in the underside of the vocals. The vocal fry, the straw bass, multiphonics, resonating pocket folds, air sounds, breathed chords. Sounds with strong texture. The words resulted from articulation, that is, vowels and consonants result primarily from sonority. Voices are archaic and have an immediate contact with the subconscious. I would like to touch on this beyond clichés.
(Carola Bauckholt)

… Carola Bauckholt’s world of sound, always endowed with delicate theatricality and often sophisticated compositional irony (is there such a thing?), is a completely different world. The titles of her compositions evoke their own milieu of objects, conditions and states of mind: The Folded Gaze, Police Drive, Screw Poetry, Braid, Mole, Pump, Nest Warmth, Helicopter, Blind Spot…. and now straw. Associative minefield. Where one hits on it, there are flashes, illuminations thus by the comprehension of finely threaded references. Sometimes one flies into the air. While listening to her compositions, laughter often gets stuck in your throat, although it is never funny or superficially humorous. An entirely original observation of the world through the scalpels with which she cuts, grinds and differentiates her notes.
(Hans-Peter Jahn, in: Program Booklet ECLAT 2013)

The world premiere of Stroh took place on February 8, 2013 at ECLAT Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart.

Carola Bauckholt (*1959 in Krefeld), after working for several years at the Krefeld Theater am Marienplatz (TAM), studied with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne Academy of Music from 1978 to 1984. In 1985 she founded the Thürmchen Verlag with Caspar Johannes Walter, and in 1991 the Thürmchen Ensemble.

In 2013 she was elected a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and since November 2021 she has been director of the music section. In 2015, she was appointed professor of composition with a focus on contemporary music theater at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. In 2020, she was elected a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

A central moment of Carola Bauckholt’s works is the reflection on the phenomenon of perception and understanding. Her compositions often mix elements of visual art, music theater and concert music. For this purpose, she likes to make use of noisy sounds, which are often produced by unusual means and are not incorporated into a given compositional grid, but are observed and continued in their free unfolding.

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