DIE TÖDLICHE DORIS — Gehörlose Musik : Die Tödliche Doris in gebärdensprachlicher Gestaltung
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"Changing identities and the development and mutation of information are recurring themes in the work of Die Toedliche Doris. They have asked strangers to take their place and play a concert as 'Die Toedliche Doris', they have engaged a mediocre show band to play along traditional dance tunes with prepared noise tapes, they have released an immaterial album which exists only when their records "Unser Debut" and "sechs" are played simultaneously. The DVD "Gehoerlose Musik. Die Toedliche Doris in gebaerdensprachlicher Gestaltung" (which roughly translates as: "Deaf Music. Die Toedliche Doris in signs and gestures") documents another reincarnation of Die toedliche Doris which took place in Berlin in 1998. The group's first LP "" (1981) is 'translated' song by song into signs and gestures to make it available to deaf people. Two women, dressed in black, act in front of a completely black stage. Their gestures and movements correspond to the lyrics and the sounds of the individual songs.
The original acoustic information has changed its form and moved on into a new medium. Die Toedliche Doris has found a new temporary body to live in. Even if this might be little stimulating visually, it is conceptually a consequent continuation of Doris' earlier interests and keeps up with the quirkiness of their work in the 1980s. Fortunately enough the DVD also features all the music from the 1981 LP. The tracks deliver a fine blend of radical dilettantism, absurd humor and aggressive nihilism. Basic rhythms, scraping violin sounds, unidentified lo-fi noises, shaky singing and pseudo-hysterical screaming are the main ingredients here. The sense of dilettantism and weird black humor which is present in all the songs makes them an imaginary soundtrack for a mythical, gloriously decaying 1980s West-Berlin. The DVD comes with a book which reproduces the artwork from the original LP (each song has a corresponding graphic and/or text, which is conceptually more or less linked to the sound/lyrics) and contains transcriptions of the German lyrics as well as English translations. And the package is made complete with a short video in which Wolfgang Mueller, one of the core members in the 1980s and today the main man behind Die Toedliche Doris, explains the ideas behind "Gehoerlose Musik" - of course simultaneously translated into sign language." [MSS /Vital Weekly] Address: http://www.kroetenhayn.com
The original acoustic information has changed its form and moved on into a new medium. Die Toedliche Doris has found a new temporary body to live in. Even if this might be little stimulating visually, it is conceptually a consequent continuation of Doris' earlier interests and keeps up with the quirkiness of their work in the 1980s. Fortunately enough the DVD also features all the music from the 1981 LP. The tracks deliver a fine blend of radical dilettantism, absurd humor and aggressive nihilism. Basic rhythms, scraping violin sounds, unidentified lo-fi noises, shaky singing and pseudo-hysterical screaming are the main ingredients here. The sense of dilettantism and weird black humor which is present in all the songs makes them an imaginary soundtrack for a mythical, gloriously decaying 1980s West-Berlin. The DVD comes with a book which reproduces the artwork from the original LP (each song has a corresponding graphic and/or text, which is conceptually more or less linked to the sound/lyrics) and contains transcriptions of the German lyrics as well as English translations. And the package is made complete with a short video in which Wolfgang Mueller, one of the core members in the 1980s and today the main man behind Die Toedliche Doris, explains the ideas behind "Gehoerlose Musik" - of course simultaneously translated into sign language." [MSS /Vital Weekly] Address: http://www.kroetenhayn.com