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Ode (owed) to O

by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

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O(hhh) 10:00
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O(nly) 45:43
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(looking for) 51:47
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(story of) 18:53
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composer: Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
performers: Andre O. Moeller, Antoine Beuger, Alissa Cheung, Josten Myburgh, Sandra Schimag, Samuel Vriezen, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé

The double cd is available from edition Wandelweiser (EWR 1712/13)
www.wandelweiser.de/_e-w-records/_ewr-catalogue/ewr1712-13.html

These four works are the outcome of reading through (CD 1) and reading from (CD 2) Pauline Reage's infamous novel Story of O, using minimal and multiple narrations and musical renditions of texts that blend erotic literature, conceptual writing and verbal scores.
' Whether one is looking for a powerful feminist expression, a series of innovative text experiments, or a slab of avant-garde bliss, Ode (owed) to O delivers it in an exciting way '. from Conor Kutz review (Nov 2017)

Ode (owed) to O is based upon and concludes a sequence of on-the-page works that seeks to liberate O from her rather shocking story, as well as from the complex and little known history of its writing. Both histories were brought together for the first time in Reading (Story of) O (uniformbooks, 2015) in which I reprinted, in parallel, a graphic reworking of the English and French versions of the original story (first published in 1954). That book also includes (Reading) O, a series of instructions for reading alone or with others, which were used for (looking for).
The other tracks are based on new text scores for voices and instruments that take the work away from its original literary context into the field of performative reading and experimental music.
In (story of), the original text has been abridged to fourteen phrases, chosing those where O is subject (as opposed to passive object). In O(hh), these phrases have been gradually stripped of words containing other vowels, until only O remains before being breathed away. In (looking for) and O(nly), O-words and O-sounds are released vocally while instruments, read her as a note or chords on a stave of words.

www.ewaeckerle.com/projectbox/Odecd/
www.ewaeckerle.com/projectbox/Obook/

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released August 2, 2017

recording:
(story of): london (february 2017), emmanuelle waeckerle
(looking for): jazz-schmiede, düsseldorf (august 2016), andré o. möller
O(nly): jazz-schmiede, düsseldorf (august 2016), andré o. möller
O(hhh): düsseldorf (2017), andré o. möller

mixing, editing, mastering of all tracks: andré o. möller

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Emmanuelle Waeckerlé London, UK

Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, free improviser and curator based in London. Her text scores, artists publications, and performances explore the materiality and musicality of language. Her scores and music are distributed by Edition Wandelweiser Record. She is a Reader in Fine Art and Relational Practices at UCA Farnham. ... more

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