KARL-SCZUKA-PREIS 2007

Listen to some excerpts:

I - Paris (6'14" - 5MB)
IV - Meteorites (10'05" - 8MB)


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TEXT AND NOTES

I - Paris

Female Voice - What is this?
Male Voice - What is this?
MV -   This is Paris in the year 50050 before Christ - Sounds of many hammers on metal and wood – the hammers play also the French National Hymn
MV - Listen to la Senne - Water pouring into a big pot
MV -This is the Eiffel Tower - Sound of metal rubbing roughly on the floor – pots, tubes, old objects
MV - And this is a group of Neanderthals walking along the Champs Elisee - Two plastic bottles squeezed rhythmically trying to imitate somebody walking
MV - And this is the Eiffel Tower again - Sounds of metal again
FV - And what is this?
MV - This is a cafe in Paris in the year 50050 before Christ - A music-box and some coffee-spoons and cups tinkling
FV - And these are two homo-sapiens chatting lovely with two neanderthals about who and what - People breaking glass and destroying everything
MV - And this is the waiter - A curious electronic sound obtained treating some short-waves
MV - This is a saxophone player, he does not fit in the story at all, but he plays cool - A saxophone-player playing jazz
FV - Ok, now please listen to the waiter staring at his clients with a strange glance in his eyes - The electronic sound
MV - What you are hearing is the waiter opening his jacket and showing his fur to his clients - Sound of a brush stroking fur
MV - And now feel yourself free to listen to the waiter revealing his secret: he is an australopithecus  a bit out of time, and he is wearing a strange jacket full of… baloons - The electronic sound
MV - Ok, now the australopithecus is turning himself into an australokamikaze and pppphhhhh - Sounds of a plastic bag – inflating and blowing it up
FV - Attack...Attack...Attack...
MV -  Wow, what a bbbooommmm
FV - bbbooommmm
MV - A bang, a big bang, yeah, this is the big-bang, listen to it again - Sound of a rewinding tape
We listen again to Paris’ soundscape (a sonic summary without narrating voices)

II – The Big Bang

A tremendous explosion. Paris’ fragments are orbiting into the void. A slow process involving the hammers, the saxophone, the French National Hymn, the broken glasses and the Senne, spinning around and combining, thus contributing to the creation of the Universe. The australopithecus observes and makes comments brushing his fur.
 
III – The First Apple

A lamb and a lion. Somebody is eating an apple. Sounds of saxophone trying to imitate something crawling. The australopithecus observes.

IV – Meteorites

MV - Ok, and now some examples of meteorites in the pre-cambrian period
- A long series of sneezings produce a rain of meteorites from the space. Powder and dust (obtained fragmenting Paris into a great many of tiny pieces) combine and turn into water and wild creatures. At the end two meteorites (a male and a female) destroy all life.

V – Noah’s Ark

Sea waves, thunders and rain. Some animals are accepted on a boat, somebody writes and puts the stamp for every single animal. The australopithcus tries his luck but he is rejected. Remained alone he finds a plastic bag on the beach, he discovers that by inflating he can produce wonderful little explosions. He walks away singing the French National Hymn.

VI - Fanerozoic

The following geological periods are characterized by treated sounds of the Eiffel Tower (sound of metal rubbing roughly on the floor – pots, tubes, old objects) growing up and increasing. A new danger appears, represented by several coughings orbiting around

MV - And now enjoy some amazing pics from the following periods: 
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV – Cambrian
FV – Scale one second equals one million years
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV - Ordovician
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV – Silurian
MV – Scale one second equals one million years
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV - Devonian
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV - Carboniferous
MV – Age:
FV - Paleozoic
MV – Period:
FV – Permian
Coughing destroy the 90% of living species.
From the ashes of Permian, ceasors and stapler rise up becoming very aggressive and turning into wild beasts. 
FV – Attack, attack
As they bite, a choir of saxophones bleeds. The ceasors are destroyed by the stapler, which now has a new problem: a threatful saw.
MV – You are listening to Mesozoic
Coughing and sneezing destroy  a great part of living creatures. The australopithecus enjoys about his balloon.
The following geological periods are characterized by treated sounds of hammering (Paris), increasing and turning almost into the hammering sounds of the beginning during Pleistocene.
MV - And now watch some lovely postcards of evolution through ages and periods:
FV – One second, one million years
MV - Cenozoic
FV - Paleocene  
FV - Eocene
FV - Oligocene
FV - Miocene
FV - Pliocene
FV - Pleistocene
FV - Holocene

VII – Nativity

A donkey, an ox and a baby crying. The saxophone imitates these three sounds and generates a sort of lamentation producing crying sounds. Many saxophones cry altogether. As they fade out and start orbiting, a surrealistic dialogue between a homo-sapiens male and a homo-sapiens female is heard from the space. The dialogue is disturbed from time to time by hammering sounds and the saxophone playing like a mammuth.
Homo Sapiens Male: hello!...can you hear me?
Homo Sapiens Female: No, I can't
HSM: where are you?
HSF: I'm here
HSM: what are you doing?
HSF: I'm sleeping
HSM: ah... I see.... Why do you speak with me if you are sleeping?
HSF: because I'm a sleepwalker
HSM: ah... I see. Would you like to have dinner with me?
HSF: I can't
HSM: why?
HSF: because I'm sleeping
HSM: ah... I see... are you alone?
HSF: are you alone?
HSF: yes, I am
HSM: can I sleep with you? ... can I come to you to sleep together with you?
HSF: no
HSM: why?
HSF: because I'm....
A tremendous explosion disturbs the homo-sapiens female’s motivations.

VIII – Seville

Sounds of many hammers on metal and wood 
FV - Is this Paris in the year 50050 before Christ?
MV - No, it isn't. This is Seville in the year 50050 before Christ – the hammers play a Spanish piece - water pouring into a big pot
FV - Is this La Senne? 
MV - No, it isn't. This is the Guadalquivir river - Two plastic bottles squeezed rhythmically trying to imitate somebody walking
MV -  And this is a group of Neanderthals walking along the streets of Barrio de Santa Cruz
A music-box and some coffee-spoons and cups tinkling
MV - This is Plaza de Toros in Sivilla in the year 50050 before Christ - A guitarist plays some flamenco riffs
FV - Is this a saxophone player?
MV - No, it is not. This is a flamenco guitar player; he doesn't fit at all in the story, but he plays cool. - People breaking glass and destroying everything
MV - And these are two homo-sapiens  with two neanderthals sitting peacefully on the steps in Plaza de Toros and awaiting for La Corrida to start
FV - Is this the Eiffel tower? - Sounds of metal rubbing roughly on the floor
MV - No it isn't. This is the toreador coming into the arena
FV - And what is this?  - The australopithecus
FV - What is this?
MV - This is the bull. - Sound of the plastic bag blowing up.

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