BallOnAir

100 years after the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire, we released into the radio-ether, quite prosaically, an aggregate of poems of Hugo Ball, one of the founders of the Dada movement and a direct participant in the Cabaret Voltaire. Today his six sound poems form part of the classical canon and are cited both in original recordings and in countless new adaptations. Figuratively speaking, the variety of these interpretations blends into white noise, the original meaning of which was lost in the history of the last century. Going back to some sort of “fossilic” foundations on which the meaning of speech is built means to return to a purely sonic language and to explore the limits between poetics, impermanence and the danger of uttered words, all of which remain quite topical.WHole six Ball's poems was recorded during the preparation of Extensive avant-garde cabaret suite in four parts called BALLONAIR, which was performed live for the first time during the celebrations of Art's Birthday - Euroradio Ars Acustica special evening on January 17, 2016 at the National gallery in Prague. Like the founders of the Dada movement chose the name by a pen-knife randomly stabbed into the dictionary (a kind generally valid story), we experimenting with this concept and the poem TOTENKLAGE metaphorically stabbing into radio ether.