Brief an den Vater
Francis Dhomont, Franz Kafka
Programme notes
Brief an den Vater is the first preliminary work for Le cri du Choucas, a long work in progress about Franz Kafka’s world, works, and character.
Of course, this work is about the famous letter Franz Kafka wrote to his father in November of 1919, a letter he never mailed. From his long indictment, I have only used a few sentences, selected because they sum up what Kafka held against his father in explicit terms, and mostly because they translate the deep worries of the writer, the mold that gave him his shape, and, as a result, the substratum of his literary topics.
For over twelve years now, I have been working on a long work entitled Le cri du Choucas, about this author and his writings. So what has this “letter” turned into
One word about the sound materials
— Francis Dhomont [English translation
Brief an den Vater was realized in 2005 at the composer’s studio in Avignon (France) and premiered on 12 February 2005 during the trans_canada festival in the ZKM_Kubus of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) in Karlsruhe (Germany). This work was commissioned by ZKM. Thanks to Martin Engler (recorded narration), Hans Tutschku, Ludger Brümmer, and Götz Naleppa.
Premiere
- February 12, 2005, trans_canada
: Topographies • Topographien • Topographies, ZKM_Kubus, Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
- Writer(s): Franz Kafka
- Composer(s): Francis Dhomont
- Year of composition: 2005-06
- Cycle: Études pour Kafka
- Duration: 17:03
- Instrumentation: stereo fixed medium
- Publisher(s): Ymx média
- Commission: ZKM
- ISRC: CAD500910147
