Klangforum Wien - Bernhard Lang: Die Sterne des Hungers (2010/2020)

The "Stars of Hunger" refer to poems by Christine Lavant. In between Machauts Rondeau "Ma fin est mon commencement" was inserted, which runs exactly backwards after 20 bars in the original. In order to leave the original untouched, theavant-texts were fragmented differently by means of the text generator "Abulafia" and appear only in fragments. For "Monadologie VII" Lang isolated four "main theme complexes" (Lang) from Schönberg's Second Chamber Symphony. Schönberg's piece is virtually predestined for meta-composition. Its most conspicuous feature is a retrospective gesture - the listener is presented with largely unknown musical terrain in this music, which incessantly oscillates between familiarity and alienation.