Aboriginal

Moritz Eggert on "Aboriginal / Millennium Dance":

“The notorious Chicago gangster Dutch Schultz was a member of the circle around Al Capone. After being shot by an unknown man in a public toilet, Schultz, now dying, was brought to hospital under police escort. It was hoped that important information would be learnt from his last words, with which Al Capone's criminal empire could be put to a stop. Instead, the police officers became witnesses of one of the strangest documents of surrealist language - to the present day, the actual meaning of Dutch Schultz's words have not been decoded. For all that, this document caused the author William Burroughs to develop 'automatic writing" and even a novel entitled 'The Last Words of Dutch Schultz'.

Although my two pieces are not an attempt to realise this text, its strange aesthetic did influence me whilst composing, especially in the second piece, Millennium Dance, a kind of hectic swansong to this century largely notable for its senseless actionism.

'Aboriginal' is dedicated to the writer and filmmaker Klaus Voswinckel; 'Millennium Dance' to the pianist of the world premiere, Siegfried Mauser.”