KEINE-PAUSE / NO BREAK
audience observations and alternative program notes
performance concept and program notes for the extended piano recital '492kg' by Frederik Croene.
2011: De Singel, Antwerp - Concertgebouw, Brugge - November Music, Den Bosch - Intro in Situ, Maastrich
PROGRAM NOTES
AUDIENCE OBSERVATIONS
Introduction speech:
"Good evening, my name is David Helbich and I am your audience interventionist and tonights AUDIENCE OBSERVER.
Which means, that I will for the sake of my research on audience behaviors observe you through out the evening from this position and I will report some of my observations at one point later in the evening to share with you what I found out.
I do this for your own good. My mission is to accentuate the roll of an audience in a concert situation like this. I call this Keine-Pause, No Break or Geen Pause, because I think that nothing can really interrupt the experience of a concert as a whole.
So, I'll observe you during the pieces and between the pieces.
The program book contains an alternative set of PROGRAM NOTES. As you might have seen already, the notes are not about the particular compositions, but about the changes between the pieces and things which are also part of this concert, even though you can't hear them.
Following the convention, it is time for your first clapping for the entrance of the pianist."
Video of the introduction speach in the Singel, Antwerp, 30 September 2011:
