Frieder Butzmann
spinet pieces	Soirée pour double solitaire, World Premiere 2004 (For Spinet and sewing machine with scissors)
statement	1st movement (Boredom): The spinet player is bored. (May be frustrated). He plays slowly and concentratedly, look carefully to the score. He plays as if exercising. – The sewing machine player is a bit disturbing the spinet player´s play.  2nd movement (Work): Both are playing perfectly: like a (sewing) machine. At high speed. The spinet player need not sing in a belcanto manner. He´s singing loud, with a thoughtful expression. He sings for himself.  3rd movement (Love): variable speed, running after the sewing machine, as a male after a female pigeon. The movement stops immediately, when each spinet note has been played.
link	www.friederbutzmann.de
country	Germany
bio	1954 born in Konstanz, on Lake Constance He collects sound and noise impressions.  For the most part he does not know whether he should create classical music or film music, lectures, radio plays or even operas. He spreads, sorts, and transposes analogue and digital sound recordings until they are unrecognizable. He presents them to the astonished audience, whenever they are willing to listen. He has exhibited in international festivals and museums as Musée National d'Art Moderne (Biennale), Paris; Kitchen, New York, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Amsterdam Elektron Musik Festivalen; Kunsthalle Wien; Saale Polivalente, Ferrara; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Ars Electronica, Linz; Haus de Stilj, Oslo; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; etc.