Electric Guitar, live electronics and recorded voice
Audio
Performed by: Amos Elkana (E-Guitar and electronics) (2008)
Program Note
Lies and lethargies was composed for the opening of an exhibition by the German painter Alexander Polzin titled "The Age of Anxiety". The title of the exhibition comes from the famous poem by W.H.Auden. The text that is heard in this piece is taken from a monologue by the figure Rosetta, which appears in Auden's poem. The monologue opens with the sentence "Lies and lethargies police the world in its period of peace..." and it expresses disgust with the repressed and frightened character of the human being and his inability to learn from past mistakes. There are four characters in Auden's poem but this difficult and sarcastic text is said by the one figure that is both a woman and a Jew. Both the recorded text and the guitar sound are fed into the computer, which performs various real time manipulations on the sound.
Premiered by Amos Elkana on Dec. 10, 2006 at the Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv
Performances
4 Mar 2008 Amos Elkana jW-Ladengalerie Berlin Germany
24 Nov 2007 Amos Elkana Bimat Meitsag Tel Aviv
24 Oct 2007 Kinneret String Quartet, Wind Quintet (players from Haifa Symphony Orchestra), Amos Elkana, Adi Menczel, Yael Toren (Video Art) Felicia Blumental Music Center Tel Aviv
18 Oct 2007 Negev artists house Beer Sheva
21 Feb 2007 Amos Elkana International Artists House Herzliya
22 Jan 2007 Amos Elkana (Guitar and Electronics) Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
10 Dec 2006 Amos Elkana (Guitar and Electronics) Felicia Blumental Music Center Tel Aviv
