Klamm’s Dream: Fragments of a Narrative

10 Jan - 2 Feb 07 (inaugurating Studio 65, and broadcast on Resonance FM, 11.02.07)

A monologue for two voices, performed by Tom Lyall and Neil Bennun

Text composed with fragments from the following sources:

Theodor Adorno:

The Form of the Phonograph Record
Notes on Kafka (tr. Samuel & Shierry Weber)

Antonin Artaud:

Madness and Black Magic

Walter Benjamin:

Franz Kafka

Maurice Blanchot:

To Dream, To Write

Gustav Janouch:

Conversations with Kafka

Franz Kafka:

In the Penal Colony

The Castle

The Diaries

A Dream

Letters to Milena

Primo Levi:

If this is a Man & The Truce (tr. Stuart Woolf)

Heiner Müller:

Collected Errors I

Philippe Sollers:

The Artaud Affair

Ludwig Wittgenstein:

Remarks on Frazer's 'Golden Bough'

(Except where indicated, texts translated by Mischa Twitchin)

Performed with fragments from the following sound sources:

Bartók 1 – Romanian Folk Dances,
Béla Bartók (pno)
(Edison wax cylinder, Hungary 1915)

Bartók 2 – Romanian Folk Dances,
Yehudi Menuhin (vln) & Abram Makarov (pno)
(Moscow Conservatoire, 16-17/11/1945)

Beethoven 1 – Symphony no.9,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, W. Furtwängler
(Berlin, 19/04/1942)

Beethoven 2 – Overture to Fidelio,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, A. Toscanini
(Salzburg, 16/08/1937)

Antonin Artaud – To Have Done With The Judgement Of God
(Paris, November 1947)

There are 4 stakes: through the two middle ones bars have been pushed, to which the
hands of the ‘delinquent’ are bound; through the two outer ones, bars are pushed for the feet.
The man thus bound, the bars are slowly pushed outward until the man is torn apart in the middle.
The inventor is leaning against the column, pleased with himself, his arms and legs crossed,
as if the whole thing were an original invention, whereas he simply observed the butcher,
in front of his shop, quartering a disembowelled pig.
– Franz Kafka: Letters to Milena