Good morning pants
| Good morning pants | |
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| Music album by Andreas Dorau, Holger Hiller | |
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Publication |
1984 |
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admission |
1984 |
| Label (s) | Ata Tak |
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Format (s) |
12 "/ 7" |
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avant-garde |
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Title (number) |
2 |
Guten Morgen Hose is a television opera by Holger Hiller and Andreas Dorau that is about 12 minutes long . The work ran on public television in 1984 and was subsequently released on record and video. It is characterized by Dadaist texts and the vehement use of the then still new sampling technique.
prehistory
Both Hiller and Dorau had made music successfully before they worked together. Hiller was the head of the internationally known NDW band Palais Schaumburg , which he had left in 1982, and Dorau had achieved a hit in the whole of German-speaking countries in 1981 with " Fred vom Jupiter ".
In 1984 Dorau received the offer to appear in a joint TV music program on all third channels of the ARD , alongside performers such as B. Spandau Ballet . However, Dorau decided against the usual appearance and approached Holger Hiller with the aim of performing the counterpart of a simple hit in the short time available, namely an opera. In addition to the musical, a dramatic component had to be taken into account, so a special piece had to be produced for the performance and a staging had to be realized.
Text and music
Hiller decided to first select the lyrics, then look for the right singers and finally record the music for the recorded vocals. Hiller was responsible for the libretto , he selected fragments from older pieces, from daily newspapers, films, captions, trivial literature, etc., and varied their combination until they resulted in a coherent fable despite their surreality. The figure of Lucy is probably a direct reference to the figure of Lucy Ewing from the television series Dallas . The relationship with Dadaist texts, repeatedly mentioned by the critics, was unintentional, Hiller was not yet familiar with any Dadaist texts at the time.
The music was also not composed as usual: the singers had to improvise the singing freely along with the lyrics, then Hiller designed the music with the sampler based on this specification. He used classical modern music as sampling material, and production was carried out with a rented E-mu emulator . Regardless of the source material, the music remained tonal . At one point in the second part, however, the production principle was undermined when Lucy sings the aria-like phrase “A-ha-ha-ha-haaa!”. The singer sang this on Hiller's instructions, in order to make a clear commitment to the form of the opera in contrast to the operetta , which was also sometimes considered for "Guten Morgen Hose".
None of the singers was trained, the solo parts sang next to Hiller and Dorau, the neighboring caretaker Sol Rubio and his girlfriend Erika Kochs. Hiller's friend Catherine Lienert, who often worked with Hiller, Dorau's background singer Hagar Groeteke and Moritz Reichelt from Der Plan formed the “pants choir”. Hiller was inspired by the Greek tragedy, where the choir has a commentary function.
action
“Guten Morgen Hose” is divided into two unspecified parts, the first around seven and a half, the second just under five minutes. Except for Dorau as Jonny and Hiller as pants, none of the interpreters appeared in the production. In the video, masked actors or trousers on nylon threads appear; Lucy played Claudia Kaloff .
After a few opening bars as an overture: Johnny (A. Dorau) sits pondering at the kitchen table and ponders, sings grumblingly about the fact that he killed 17 women. Lucy (E. Kochs), his daughter, enters, after a short song the pants (S. Rubio) float up and begins to woo Lucy's love. A duet between the two interrupts Johnny in jealous rage, the pants cannot appease him, but Lucy intervenes, father and daughter sing together.
The carpet comes in (H. Hiller). He too woos Lucy, but she rejects him brusquely and scornfully. Johnny becomes furious and rushes towards the carpet with a knife. In the fight he kills him, but at the same time injures himself fatally and dies in Lucy's arms. Lucy and the pants sing the “Song of Faith in Miracles” with the pants choir as the finale , rain and thunder conclude the second part, the end remains open.
Publications
After the television broadcast in the third programs of the ARD, "Guten Morgen Hose" was released in 1984 as a maxi single on the Düsseldorf Ata-Tak label and as a single on the Dutch label Pick Up Records . The video of the production was shown as an intro at Hiller's concerts, Ata Tak published it on the video sampler "The Heart of Germany", and the piece was remastered for a new DVD edition. In 2007 the film was shown at the Ultrahang Festival in Budapest. In 2015 Moritz Reichelt provided a video recording at vimeo .
reception
Ian Moorse praised the record in the magazine "Elaste" in 1984 with the words: "Nobody can get past it." In particular, he emphasized the "amazing lyrics" and the "sensational instrumentation". In 2007, Frank Apunkt Schneider spoke of an "insane Dada Beijing opera [...] that beats high culture with meta-high culture". In addition to the “richness of content and text”, he particularly praised the cinematic implementation, which he describes as “sensational”. Jutta Koether noted that the piece was sometimes received very seriously as art, although it was full of "popular content (incest, parricide)".
Web links
proof
- ↑ Notes: Mini-LP, containing a "Short Opera" . In: Guten Morgen Hose ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Holger Hiller. (Accessed July 2, 2011)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Felix Knoth / Holger Hiller: This beast is quirky and beautiful In: Testcard # 6, "Pop-Texts", ISBN 3-931555-05-4 , 1998
- ↑ a b c d Jutta Koether: Holger Hiller - pale awake (young) man In: SPEX - Musik zur Zeit, 2/1984, pp. 20-21
- ↑ thing.de: Envy 5: A Bundle of Rottenness , Interview with Hiller, accessed on June 24, 2011
- ↑ a b Frank Apunkt Schneider: When the world was still down - From Punk to NDW , p. 258, 2007, ISBN 3-931555-88-7
- ↑ atatak.com: DVD , accessed July 3, 2011
- ↑ clubtransmediale.de: DISK / club transmediale: The Blind Spot at Ultrahang Festival, Budapest ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed June 24, 2011
- ^ Ian Moorse: Platten In: Elaste, 10/1984, p. 110
