‘Men perhaps’ is the first single release from the upcoming double CD of the musical audio drama ‘The Mark on the Wall’ by Stepha Schweiger, based on the stream-of-consciousness short story of the same name by Virginia Woolf, performed by the European Music Project ensemble. ‘Men perhaps’ unfolds a dense, essayistic soundscape exploring the more or less visible norms of our society. In the same way, Whitaker’s Table of Precedency appears to dictate its irrefutable hierarchy. Yet gradually, as if by magic, these laws slip away until, in the end, only phantoms remain. In this process, the voices and electronic instruments mysteriously merge with the resonant space as a floating web of overlapping proximity and distance, order and dissolution, and ambivalence. Clear gestures meet fragile textures; steady rhythms dissolve into microtonal nuances, pauses and a delicate wall of sound.
