Werner Cee. Rozhlasová hra. Režie Werner Cee. Produkce a střih Manfred Hess. Zvuk David Keith, klimatický vědec. Hudba Alf Terje Hana, Eivind Aarset a Stian Westerhus (elektronická kytara), Peter Hollinger (bubny) a Werner Cee (bass, e-bass, e-ch’in a elektronika)
Účinkují Neville Tranter: Cloud Songs by Bettina Obrecht; Freddie Wadling: JoÌn SteingriÌmsson (Fires of the Earth); Adrian McNally: List U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (List of Patents ref. Geo-engineering) Rachel and Becky Unthank: Darkness by Lord Byron.
Nastudoval ARD Südwestrundfunk (SWR) v roce 2020. Premiéra 20. 2. 2020 (SWR, 44 min.).
Pozn.: Nominace na Prix Marulić 2021 v sekci Drama.
Lit.: anonym: When Weather was Wildlife by Werner Cee 2020. In web SoundCloud, květen 2020 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu). – Cit.: Certainly, the desire to influence weather patterns is as old as humanity itself. At present, climatologists, poiticians, economists and the military are discussing options to modify the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere up to the stratosphere on a global scale.
In the age of the Anthropocene, geo-engineering has replaced old-fashioned ritual and religious invocations. Today, in the context of weather manipulation, we are confronted with a jumble of dystopies, concrete plans to save the planet, terror, facts and fake: „whether we like it or not“, as climatologist David Keith puts it, weather has lost its „wildlife“ character.
Lit.: anonym: Germany / SWR Baden Baden – When Weather was Wildlife. In web Prix Marulić, květen 2021 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu + scénář v ENG). – Cit.: Certainly, the desire to influence weather patterns is as old as humanity itself. At present, climatologists, poiticians, economists and the military are discussing options to modify the chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere up to the stratosphere on a global scale.
In the age of the Anthropocene, geo-engineering has replaced old-fashioned ritual and religious invocations. Today, in the context of weather manipulation, we are confronted with a jumble of dystopies, concrete plans to save the planet, terror, facts and fake: „whether we like it or not“, as climatologist David Keith puts it, weather has lost its „wildlife“ character.
When weather was wildlife joins historical and up-to-date documents: The ironically poignant „Cloud Songs“ by Bettina Obrecht are spoken by Neville Tranter. The breathless voice of Freddie Wadling quotes Jón Steingrímsson’s description of a volcanic eruption in Iceland in the year 1784, when an enormous amount of sulphuric aerosols released into the atmosphere resulted in the darkening of the entire Northern hemisphere (Fires of the Earth, 1784). Rachel and Becky Unthank are the interpreters of Lord Byrons sombre apocalyptic poem „Darkness“, written in the „Year Without a Summer“ 1816 – also in the context of a big volcanic eruption. Meandering between all of these texts are extracts from a list of patents on the subject of Geo- engineering released by the US Patent and Trademark Office, spoken by Adrian MacNally. They are supplemented by the original sound of David Keith as well as field recordings of the Sant’Agata Procession in Catania, Sicily, where the faithful ritually try to conciliate the Mount Etna volcano. Over and over again, lost idylls meet bizarre soundscapes, apocalyptic storms, iridescent atmospheres and sunsets lost in reverie. (…)