Loke Rahbek & Julia Lans Nowak (Photo: Coleman Guyon)
To what extent are we actually present when we speak? After all, the words we use are words of others. And how well can we really know each other if we use language that isn’t ever ours? The poet, author, and translator Julia Lans Nowak deals with these questions in this her latest work, entitled »Translator«. The theatre piece/performance hybrid, which focuses on the digital communication of the 21st century, was created together with the Copenhagen-based musician Loke Rahbek.
Rahbek plays in the groups Damien Dubrovnik and Lust For Youth, runs the avant-garde label Posh Isolation, and is busy making a sensation with the »Bubblegum Industrial« sound of his solo project, Croatian Amor. This project is a »Pop-Kultur« exclusive and will be broadcast live via Berlin Community Radio.
About Typewriter-Klangwelten
Sound worlds are designed linguistically; writers listen to music as they write. Literature inspires song; lyrics follow a rhythm. Literary writing and music are interrelated, and they even live off of each other; the boundaries between them are blurred. »Typewriter-Klangwelten« [»Typewriter-Worlds of Sound«] is a multi-day experiment that searches for new hybrid forms at the open interface between literature and music. Following a concept developed by the musician, journalist, and author Hendrik Otremba, other musicians will meet with authors, not rarely within the brain of a single person but always with varying perspectives, in order to fathom and interpret these relations anew. These interpretations will appear in the form of a talk, the concert performance of a novel, a literary radio play, and a man-machine that serves both disciplines. Here’s a quote from Blumfeld to start off with: »Ich hab' keine Knochen mehr / Dafür Tinte für zwanzig Bücher im Bauch« [»I have no bones left / But ink enough for twenty books in my belly«].