Dieter Schnebel on "MO-NO":
This reading and picture book offers neither literature nor art for the eye captured on the page. Rather, MO-NO is music - music for reading; more precisely: music for a reader. Reading the book aims to create music in the reader's head so that he, being alone in reading - mono - becomes a performer of music, making music for himself.
Some of the texts in the book are intended to entice you to listen to and connect with the sounds that are currently happening. "Pay attention to what sounds from outside - wind, water, rustling trees - rolling traffic, signals - voices, birdsong, dogs barking - or that? - Gradual change from one to the other - different things at the same time - transitions abruptly, gently - that's how it sounded some time ago, yes, some time ago ..."
Some of the texts describe sounds that can only be imagined, i.e. created imaginatively by the reader: "A silence - where nothing sounds from outside - perhaps the calm of a vast expanse - above the clouds ... ocean ..." "A piercing and penetrating sound that draws streaks after itself - with the hint of an English horn (sad way). Is it that of a dentist's turbine drill that drives into you ... Let it fade into the microglissando of a snake buzzing around your head at night ..."
The book also contains notes - admittedly hardly the kind we are used to (that we could play), but rather those that can only be understood by looking at them and thus lead us to imagine unreal sounds. Some notes create the illusion of sounds in space through their perspective representation, others are deformed and distorted; still others show a certain inner life, as if they were growing again in tones - small tones, mini-sounds, so to speak. A composition ("Umrisse I") runs on one strip, which consists only of composed pauses, creating composed silence.
In this way, the book aims to lead the reading listener (the listening reader) to the music of the sounds that surround us, but also to set him on the trail of the imaginary music that is constantly forming within us, namely that which grows out of real and unreal sounds.
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