Patterns, patterns, oh, to break those chains (2017) // Ma'alot Quintet by Matthias Krüger (b. 1987) published on 2017-05-01T13:35:12Z Live-recording of the world premiere by Ma'alot Wind Quintet at Rittergut Störmede (Westfalen, Germany) on April 28th, 2017 Recorded by Deutschlandfunk Kersten McCall, flute Christian Wetzel, oboe Ulf-Guido Schäfer, clarinet Sibylle Mahni, horn Volker Tessmann, bassoon "How we laugh and take joy in the irrational, the purposeless and the absurd. Our longing for these bursts out of us against all the restraints of morality and reason. Riots, revolutions, catastrophes: how they exhilarate us. How depressing it is to read the same news day after day. Oh God, if only something would happen: meaning, if only patterns would break down. By the end of that month I was thinking if only Nixon would get drunk and say to someone, ‘Fuck you, buddy.’ If only William Buckley or Billy Graham would say, ‘Some of my best friends are Communists’; if only a sportscaster would just once say, ‘Sure is a boring game, folks.’ But they don’t. So each of us travels, to Fort Lauderdale, to Vietnam, to Morocco, or gets divorced, or has an affair, or tries a new job, a new neighborhood, a new drug, in a desperate effort to find something new. Patterns, patterns, oh, to break those chains. But we drag our old selves with us and they impose their solid oak frames on all our experience." Luke Rhinehart, The Dice-Man (1971)
