1. bloodstream –soul of the body
First the vietnamese dan bàu represents the branching of the arterials, later the measure for augmentation and diminution of the regulation for the blood pressure. The saxophone starts to play, when the finest ramification of the capillaries are visible, where it is too tight for a float, so the erythrocytes have to wait “in cue” for the exchange of gas and squeeze through just one by one.
The blood ensures the providing of all organs with nutritive substances and oxygen. In the never ending circulation the heart is pumping 5 to 6 liters of blood in each single minute through the human body - in the state of rest, in demand even more.
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2. countdown to colon – the enharmonically digestion
The bass-trombone symbolizes a piece of apple, which starts the way to digestion. The accordion and bass clarinet both symbolize the endless escapades of the meters of the gastrointestinal tract. "The enharmonic confusion" musically means the using of the same note in the well tempered tuning like g-sharp and a-flat, here it's a word-play specified by the changement of molecular structures, which stays the same but changes the form and surrounding.
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3. ready for take off: getting off of the boys
Catapulted at the portal of the cervix the entrance has to be found and penetrated, which is possible only during three days because of the closing attribute of the cervical mucus.
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4. crepitatio – odem of life
"Crepitatio" is a creasing sound which is hearable in case of sickness during the auscultation of the lungs with the stethoscope. Air is life.
The bass-trombone is shown by the inlay-film, the bassclarinet by the big one. The larynx of an amateur, which suffers of functional dysphonic, is underlaid the singing larynx of Ingeborg Poffet. It’s shown by the surrounding sound which correlates with the aspect of bad respiration.
The respiration itself is shown in the x-rays of a diaphragm, the laryngoscope passes over fluently to an endoscopy of the bronchial tree.
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5. the story about the claps to my heart
Flap-sounds from the bass clarinet, accordion and horn symbolize the rhythmically movements of all valves of the heart. Mechanically, never the same, normally perfectly synchronized to each other, sometimes developing to arrhythmias, coming back to an organized rhythm, always in a pulse.
The valve-system of the heart, “announced” by the tricuspid-valve, played by the bass clarinet, conducts the way of the blood to the heart, lungs and the circuit through the body. But sometimes the telling is about errors, delusion, confusion, windings, shunts, whirls ... and about the metaphorical access to the heart of course.
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6. way to Nirvana – sperm-run 1
With fresh energy the boys start their breathless way, but the entrance through the portal has to be fighted and worked for.
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7. Epi Lepsia
An epileptic person never knows, when the next seizure will come. But many people can feel it coming because of the aura in advance. The synapses, which happily do their jobs before, suddenly start to fire more and more synchronically until unison: but that fore the brain is not meant to be, it brakes down to a 10 to 30 seconds of absence and/or a spasm, wherein the epileptic person looses consciousness.
The bass-tromboneand accordion symbolize the normal ground activity of the synapses in both hemispheres. After 10 to 20 seconds of absences they start to play, getting to a stronger activity and finally playing a seizure in fortissimo. The base for this composition is an original recording of an electro-encephalography of the brain of a 15-year-old boy during a seizure. Samples of heart tones are playing the calm phase, a harder activity with starting of the aura, tachycardia during the seizure, deep breathing sounds of calmness with a slow pulse after an absence.
Histology exams of diverse nerves are the base of self-made animations with the pictures of a computer-tomography from the head of Ingeborg Poffet. The film shows the development of an epileptic seizure finally ending in a glissandi of pictures of the brain as the highlight.
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8. Arie of the larynx
This is the lucky story of a big success of the vocal chords, shown and talked by witnesses of first hand, the larynx. It’s been sung a cappella, the visual multiplying get its musically pendant in the voice-life, a special vocoder for the voice. The sound like water or applause is the electronically modiefd heartbeat from Ingeborg Poffet, recorded with double-sonography. The basis is a laryngoscope of Ingeborg Poffet.
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9. way to Nirvana – sperm run 2
Even a sperm sometimes might loose the orientation.
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10. Vertigo goes Morbus Menière
Scene of crime: inner ear. Fluids of the cochlea are stretching the hear-membrane until it cuts, which means a loss of faculty of hearing and a strong vertigo.
In the cochlea endolymph from the scala timpani mixes with the perilymphe of the ductus cochlearis because of a strong income of sodium. That stretches the Reissner-membrane until it breaks. The cilia of the corti-organ, which ends at the membrana tectoria (to register finest movements of a single hydrogen-atom, the reason, why we are able to hear softest notes and sounds) and directs to a nerve of the nervus vestibulocochlearis, the VIII. brain nerve, for one special frequency, but then drag into an emptiness – they can’t fulfill their job, the human is def for this special frequency.
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11. Bones in space
Since the beginning of space-shuttles with humans in the sixties science knows about the osteoporoses of the astronauts. Because of the absence of gravity and everyday-movements the mass of bones diminishes continuously. Calcium is released, osteoclasts work harder to catabolize the bones than osteoblasts can build it up.
The rigid composition is a mirror of the stereotype construction of the bones with spongosia and corticalis. The accordion stands for the strength of the corticalis of the lower limps below the hip, which continuously diminishes in space more and more with a climax up to the heel bone. The saxophone represents the thorax, which stays nearly untouched like the radius. The horn symbolizes the head, which even wins a little bit of mass – because of the flowing minerals of the other bones in the blood.
X-rays show the begin of the journey into space, like astronauts are measured before and after a travel. First everything is at its place, but soon there are changing’s in the femur, knee and tibialis – shown in some cat-scans. The thorax stays quiet a time untouched and represents the perfect stay in space: moons are rising , and suddenly you don’t feel like in a body any more but in space, while the thickness of the lower bones is in a free fall.
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12. way to Nirvana – sperm run 3
Later the searching trip leads through the tubes to the egg-cell, which tempts with pheromones, the sperms can smell! They are supported by spiral slimes from the uterus during the fertile time. But the rivals have to be excelled, just the strongest will arrive.
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13. aortas nieces and nephrews
With the aorta the big circulation starts through the body, brunching-offs lead to vessels always getting smaller, until the capillaries reduce the blood-pressure down to 10 percent, for the gas-exchange of oxygen and carbodioxid might happen in the slowest tempo. In the film the way leads to the nephrons of the right kidney (of Ingeborg Poffet) where the blood is filtered.
The composition is programmatically: the soloists stand for the enriched blood with metabolism-products which cry out like: “hei, I got to be transported”, so it is caught and “taken” by tutti-themes. The return of the themes refer to the nearly same construction of the vessels and their bifurcations.
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14. way to Nirvana – sperm-run 4
If a sperm would have the height of a human, a man would have to swim through honey to measure the achievement of the slip of a sperm to reach his goal, the ovum.
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15. get rid of the demons
This composition is written in 11/4, the thorax has a cut of 140 tomography-pictures. The figures inside – like in a Rorschach-ink-picture – are telling the story of the expulsion of the demons and the conquest of cancer, including a happy end.
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16. way to Nirvana – sperm-run 5
The destination is near – but: there might be only one!
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17. contanimation for opsonization
A fatale art-virus, created by the team Miller-Poffet-Poffet, released during the performance of “opsonization”. Like a retrovirus it mutates extremely fast, the receptors on its surface change faster than its rate of a dizzy reproduction. Everybody will be contanimated, the time of incubation is 7 minutes. The audience is in quarantine, enjoy the bar. A doctor is ready for your needs (sometimes).
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18. the conjunction
Reached. But keen competition is already there. Just a single head can slip through the cover, which closes impenetrable within parts of a second.
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19. the incarnation of Anika
She is back! The rubato-theme accompanies the way of the freshly conjuncted oöcyte, which moves while dividing through the tube to the uterus. Entered there the heartbeat changes and the theme of life starts.
First there is the will of incarnation which needs a fertilized egg-cell. Once implanted in regular order, sonographic-pictures show the development of Anika, from a tiny embryo with a visible heartbeat to a baby, which luckily wags for the completion.
The journey through the body has come to an end, a new being has been created.