{"id":9835,"date":"2016-03-11T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/blog\/background-note-by-liza-lim-on-tree-of-codes\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T15:08:00","slug":"background-note-by-liza-lim-on-tree-of-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/background-note-by-liza-lim-on-tree-of-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Background note by Liza Lim on &#8220;Tree of Codes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ce ce-onecol \" >\r\n    <div class=\"container\">\r\n        <div class=\"row\">\r\n            <div class=\"col\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/klang-bild\/buehne\/tree-of-codes\/\">Tree of Codes<\/a>\u00a0takes place during an extra day grafted on to the continuity of life. Within this margin of secret time, a \u2018backstage\u2019 area, the boundaries between the natural world, animals, birds, humans and machines are dissolving. Dead matter is combined with the living and becomes animated. It learns to dream, to speak, to sing\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A bird mimics language and humans sing like birds. Father\u2026does he know he\u2019s dead?\u2026conjurs birds made out of rubbish into mutant forms of being, recuperating strange life across a boundary of death. There is a kaleidescope of relationships joined by ventriloquism \u2013 one thing speaks for another \u2013 this world is made up of contingent parts where form is an excuse for slippage. Scene 3: \u2018Ventriloquism\u2019, begins with a comet, its sounds recorded by the Rosetta space mission, whilst far, far below, perhaps affected by some strange gravitational pull, a brass band blurts into life. The bubbling, percussive song of the comet is mirrored in a chorus of frogs and insects, Father\u2019s \u2018<em>generatio aequivoca<\/em>\u00a0which he had dreamed up\u2019 \u2013 not real frogs and insects but \u2018a kind of pseudofauna and pseudoflora, the result of a fantastic fermentation of matter.\u2019 Musicians play the most primitive of violins in the form of blocks of wood that are bowed with sticks to sound out this pseudo animal kingdom yet, out of this, emerge rhythmic patterns that recite Goethe\u2019s\u00a0<em>Erlk\u00f6nig<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Displacement and dissociation of time, space and identity create effects of menace and wonder.\u00a0<\/strong>What is authentic? What is fake? The opera\u00a0<em>Tree of Codes<\/em>\u00a0asks:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018how do the inheritances of our genes, our stories and the unconscious beliefs passed down through generations, shape who we are, our desires, our curses? Do the living and dead exist in a relationship of ventriloquism?\u2019 As Bruno Schulz says: \u2018What is a Spring dusk? A multitude of unfinished stories. Here are the great breeding grounds of history. The tree roots want to speak\u2026memories awake\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Further information can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/klang-bild\/buehne\/tree-of-codes\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lizalimcomposer.wordpress.com\/\">Liza Lim&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree of Codes takes place during an extra day grafted on to the continuity of life. Within this margin of secret time, a \u2018backstage\u2019 area, the boundaries between the natural world, animals, birds, humans and machines are dissolving. Dead matter is combined with the living and becomes animated. 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