One would have pursued some piece gladly longer, pulls themselves others tormenting into the length, and who for the following samples hopes and wants not directly to switch off, must listen doless. In order to say it in front: The patience is recompenced. Alois Bröders sound collage Im Irrenhaus gains impressing dynamics from the underlying text of Heinar Kipphardt, by carving up the language material and recombining it in a musical manner. Before this successful conclusion the direction set however a long period of reduced circumstances.
Frank Kaspar
(from: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20.7.1999)
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The language is the determining momentum in the work Im Irrenhaus by the present composer Alois Bröder. In constant restlessness voices are mixed, which all quote words, with which people imposed, who are excluded from the society because of their madness. Over and over again interrupted from surf noises, here, also with child voices and in spelling hesitantly, desperation and resistance wins through in view of the hopelessness in a lunatic asylum.
Richard Hörnicke
(from: Wiesbadener Kurier, 8.2.2006)
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Society-critically Alois Bröder also appeared in his composition Im Irrenhaus: He lets down-said about 50 adult and child's voices a list of associations with the word "Irrenhaus" from the novel "März" by Heinar Kipphardt. By means of electronic alienations he lets the voices babble, spell helplessly, stutter, break off as irritated in the middle of a word and says with the words of Heinar Kipphardt: "Most people have an unconscious fear to be equal to the pressure of their own compulsions one day maybe no more."
Elisabeth Risch
(from: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9.2.2006)
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