4 Women - 40 Instruments - The Recorder Quartet Flautando Köln

How do relationships work? Do they work at all? Do we really talk to each other or just past each other? Or about each other, against each other, over each other? Where can we find answers to these questions? We set out on a search ...

With music and lyrics we explore the patterns of the things we think, feel and say - as well as those we don't think, feel or say. What we come across is sometimes revealing, often funny - and mostly true ... In the early 1970s, the British psychiatrist Ronald D. Laing dissected and recorded relationship structures in an inimitable way. The silent dialogues, rituals and mechanisms that force us to think in old patterns again and again. He makes us recognise these patterns by making poetry out of them - menacingly simple, minimalist and complex, of thrilling clarity.

At the same time, the music also begins to dissect the established contexts: The old patterns are isolated and linked in a new way. Phase shifts, superimpositions and juxtapositions of the smallest motivic structures weave a tapestry of sound that gives us the impression of being part of a continuum - of being absorbed in the diversity of being and time.

Compositions by PHILIP GLASS, RUSSELL PETERSON, ALBRECHT MAURER, ULRICH SCHULTHEISS, TORSTEN WILKE MÜLLER and H.I. FRANZ VON BIBER

Texts from RONALD D. LAING: DO YOU LOVE ME, KNOTS and THE POLITICS OF THE FAMILY.