{"id":5884,"date":"2021-07-26T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/sizi-uilu-stillo\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T14:26:56","slug":"sizi-uilu-stillo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/sizi-uilu-stillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizi Uilu Stillo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernd Thewes<\/strong> – Sizi Uilu Stillo<\/em> (1994)
\nfor trombone and keyboard percussion<\/p>\n

Bruce Collings, trombone
\nBenjamin Kobler, keyboard percussion
\nJanet Sinica, video
\nJan B\u00f6yng, editing
\nJulius Gass, recording producer\/editing<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Programme text by Bernd Thewes<\/h3>\n

The Lorsch Manuscript<\/strong>
\nOld High German\/Rhenish Franconian<\/p>\n

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Kirst, imbi ist huze! nu fliuc du, uihu minaz, hera
\nfridu frono in godes munt heim zu commone gisunt.
\nsizi sizi bina! inbot dir sancte Maria
\nhurolob ni habe du zi holce ni fluc du,
\nnoh du mir nindrinnes noh du mir nintuuinest.
\nsizi uilu stillo uuuirki godes uuillon!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translation:<\/em>
\nChrist, the bee colony is out (= swarmed out)!<\/strong>
\nNow, my animals (my cattle), fly again,<\/strong>
\nthat in the peace of the Lord, in the protection of God, <\/strong>
\nyou come home safe.<\/strong>
\nSit, sit, bee. This is what St. Mary commanded you.<\/strong>
\nYou shall not have permission (= holiday),<\/strong>
\nto fly to the wood (= into the forest),<\/strong>
\nthou shalt neither escape nor run away from me.<\/strong>
\nSit very still and do what God wants (work God’s will)!<\/strong><\/p>\n

uihu – cattle, animal(s)
\nind-rinnan (n = negation) – to escape, to escape from
\nint-uuinnan = to escape<\/p>\n

This text, handed down in an old Vatican manuscript and known as the “Lorsch Bee Blessing”, in which Christian and magical elements overlap, interested me because of its peculiar central metaphor, the command to the bees not to fly into the forest, but to sit still and fulfil God’s will. To condemn the bees, whose mythological symbolism goes far back into ancient Greek and Egyptian culture and is still present in the 20th century (Maeterlinck, Joseph Beuys), to sit still seems to me a parable of the hostility to life of the attempt to understand the world as a rational and ordered object (dead thing); the text strikes me as an ironic critique of European scientificity in its infancy. Incidentally, the first experiments in “freezing” musical events in writing by means of notation were also successful at that time. The palpable tension in the image of standstill as prevented movement is the quasi-energetic core of my composition, which could be formally described as a paraphrase of a metrical ostinato framework: Against the background of a carousel-like metric, the sound development, which also processes phonetic material of the original text, progresses associatively from the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n

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Bernd Thewes’ composition “Sizi Uilu Stillo” is based on a Vatican manuscript of the 10th\/11th century. We present our recording of the piece with Bruce Collings on trombone and Benjamin Kobler on keyboard percussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-programmnote","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5887,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/5887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}