A House of Call
A cycle of invocations, prayers, poems, and songs for large orchestra, A House of Call incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters. The cycle is a response to the history of these recordings and to their complexity, rawness, and radiance. In this secular “responsorium”, the orchestra accompanies and supports the voices, answers, and challenges them. The voices call, Goebbels says, “either from the past or from my personal environment; idiosyncratic voices, traditional folk material. Rituals. Literature...”
Track Listing:
1 I. Stein Schere Papier - Introitus (A Response to Repons)
2 Immer den gleichen Stein
3 Under Construction
4 III. Wax cylinders and violence - Toccata (Vowels-Woven)
5 Achtung Aufnahme
6 Nun danket alle Gott
7 Ti gu go Iniga mi (Some of them say)
8 VI. When words gone - Bakakl - (Dialogo).
9 Schlaft ein Lied in allen Dingen
10 What When Words Gone