Barbara Kaiser explores the situations faced when people change social class. Usually they report neither feeling at home in one world nor the other. The impressions and experiences of these class travellers determine the composition of this audible journey, based around texts from Klassenreise by Brigitte Theissl and Betina Aumair.
When people change social class in the course of their lives, they usually feel neither in one world nor in the other at home.
The impressions and experiences of these class travelers determine the sound composition of this contribution.
The basis is formed by field recordings of numerous train journeys, which make room for the inner images that pass by. Interwoven with these are voice recordings, which sometimes are more and sometimes less isolated from the soundscape or merge with it.
All the texts used for this come from the book "Klassenreise" by Brigitte Theissl and Betina Aumair, published by ÖGB Verlag. The selection excerpts from conversations with class travelers and quotes from texts by specialists who have dealt with this topic. The recorded passages are partly based on the radio producer's personal experiences. Excerpts of a radio experiment that took place at the end of May 2022 at o94.00 can be heard selectively.
The transitions from sound to speech and vice versa form the arc of this contribution.
Thanks to: Betina Aumair, Klemens Koscher, Karl and Maria Schönswetter, Fiona Steinert, Brigitte Theissl.
I dedicate this programme to my mother and my niece Evelyn.
In her artistic work, Barbara Kaiser deals with the deconstruction of classical narrative forms, with experimental approaches to music and radio art, and with creative collaborative processes. She studied "Transmedial Art" at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is a founding member of the Vegetable Orchestra and has been touring with this grassroots-organized ensemble on numerous concert tours at home and abroad since 1998. Since 2007 she has been part of the Viennese editorial team radia on Radio Orange. In 2003, together with Ingrid Schlögl and Tamara Wilhelm, she founded the formation z.b.: ... . From 2001 to 2012 she worked as a workshop leader for animated film and sound workshops at the ZOOM animation studio, and since2012 she has been leading and curating this area at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna.