Napule, Napoli, Naples, Partenope, Paleopeia. Neapel als Text/Ton-Collage in Alban Nikolai Herbsts «poetischem Hörstück» von 2013
Abstract
In his audio piece of 2013, Alban Nikolai Herbst (b. 1955) intends to
outplay the traditional cliché of Naples as a «paradise inhabited by
devils». Blending authentic sounds recorded in the streets with Baroque
and contemporary music, quotations from famous visitors such
as Vergil or Goethe, Bloch or Benjamin and the crime statistics found
in Saviano’s Gomorra, Herbst represents the living world under the
volcano as a most paradoxical mix of vitality and fear, courage and violence.
Since the actual reality of Naples essentially interferes with its
history and mythology, the only adequate (i.e. poetically justified) way
to reveal it to the listeners at home is the radical collage.
outplay the traditional cliché of Naples as a «paradise inhabited by
devils». Blending authentic sounds recorded in the streets with Baroque
and contemporary music, quotations from famous visitors such
as Vergil or Goethe, Bloch or Benjamin and the crime statistics found
in Saviano’s Gomorra, Herbst represents the living world under the
volcano as a most paradoxical mix of vitality and fear, courage and violence.
Since the actual reality of Naples essentially interferes with its
history and mythology, the only adequate (i.e. poetically justified) way
to reveal it to the listeners at home is the radical collage.
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