Near My Ears

Our jour­ney to this show actual­ly star­ted 10 years ago at our resi­den­cy in Brussels at QO2 whe­re we deve­lo­ped the first pro­to­ty­pe of our mobi­le live set up. Actual­ly by then the text of Etel Adnan found us (in this order) – and has been accom­pany­ing us through dif­fe­rent times. This text-tis­sue, as Etel would pro­ba­b­ly cal­led it hers­elf, made us search for her, and in 2017 we tra­ve­led to meet her in Paris in her apart­ment. We spo­ke about our work and what we would like to do with her “tis­sue” and she recor­ded it with us. We are so gra­teful to have met her in per­son. We have been patent­ly wai­ting all the­se years and knew at some point the­se recor­dings will come to live again – which is now in Near my Ears.  

We pre­mie­red this pie­ce tog­e­ther with two ama­zing local musi­ci­ans Dor­rit Bau­er­ecker and Rochus Aust, Klaus, mys­elf and Etels voice in Köln, wal­king through the city and try­ing to under­stand and feel what it means “to be in a time of war”…..

In future places and cities we look out for col­la­bo­ra­ting with local musi­ci­ans.