04_Image and text for Pea(ce Soup_2012

Dedicated to Pauline Oliveros for her 80th birthday

The Pea(ce Soup is the third dish from my "Kitchen Symphony in
Five Courses with Service." The recipe of the American sound artist
Pauline Oliveros uses peas and peace as ingredients for her
electronic soup and combines them with a pun into a currently
much-needed nourishment. The improvising soloists of the evening –
Katia Guedes, Matthias Badczong, Johannes Bauer, Friedemann Graef
and Ritsche Koch – come from Brazil, Germany and Austria and cross
naturally the borders between countries, cultures, and word meanings
as well as between different artistic genres. Their actions enter into a
playful dialogue with the composed music. The electronic sounds are
complemented and enhanced by the echo of rolling and rattling noises
of objects and sound hats. The singer is wearing a greenish, shimmering
silk dress in the form of a pea pod with removable peas that invite the
musicians to play. At the end of the performance the festival participants
will be served the Pea(ce Soup – vegetarian, of course:
peace also for the animals!

Gisela Weimann, design, costumes and staging, Berlin-Słubice 2012