Rasch X by Paulo de Assis

Raschx is a series of mutational performances based upon two fundamental materials: Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana op. 16 (1838), and Roland Barthes essays on the music of Schumann, particularly focusing on ‘Rasch’ (1979), a text exclusively dedicated to Schumann’s Kreisleriana. To these materials other components may be added for every single particular version: visual elements (pictures, videos), other texts, or further aural elements (recordings or live-electronics). The main goal is to generate an intricate network of aesthetic-epistemic cross-references, through which the listener has the freedom to focus on different layers of perception: be it on the music, on the texts being projected or read, on the images, or on the voices. Situated beyond ‘interpretation’, ‘hermeneutics’, and ‘aesthetics’ the series Raschx is part of a wider research on what might be labelled as experimental performance practices—practices that productively deviate from conventional (repetitive) performative strategies and that lend the audience to think during the performative moment, transforming familiar artistic objects into objects for thought.

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Rasch⁰ – Schumann's BwO

Rasch¹ — con Tarkovsky

Rasch² – Schumann's BwO-2

Rasch³ – Schumann's somathemes

Rasch⁴ – Schumann's somathemes²

Rasch^5-6 – for helmut / Schumann's somathemes³

Rasch⁷ – Scar³No+Sch₃

Rasch⁸ – Pouvoir et Contre-pouvoir

Rasch⁹ – barthe-s-chumann assemblage (28/03/2014). Performance for piano, tape, live-electronics and video projector. Focus Session with Ton Koopman. Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Rasch¹⁰ – for lydia (04/04/2014). Performance for piano, tape, live-electronics and video projector. Study-day with Lydia Goehr,
Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Rasch¹¹: Loving Barthes. Performance for pianos, tape, live-electronics and video projector. Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Rasch¹¹⁺¹. Graphic score.

Rasch¹¹⁺². Discussion. Orpheus Institute, Ghent.

Rasch¹² – For Maynooth. Performance for piano, tape, live-electronics and video projector.

Rasch¹³ Schumann re-notated. Sculptural installation.

Rasch¹⁴: Loving Barthes³ (05/04/2016). Performance for piano, tape, live-electronics and video projector. Orpheus Academy 2016.

Rasch¹⁵: … dans la nuit (17/05/2016). iPad installation. Text: Roland Barthes, Loving Schumann; Voice: Bob Gilmore. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch¹⁶: Äußerst bewegt (17/05/2016). Performance for piano, tape, and video projection. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch¹⁷: Rasch-clash (17/05/2016). Performance for piano and video projection. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch¹⁸: maître et esclave (17/05/2016). Performance/ sound installation. Recorded voice: Roland Barthes. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch¹⁹: quasi parlando (17/05/2016) Performance/installation for piano, microphone, subwoofer, and video. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch²⁰: Interferenzen (17/05/2016). Performance for automated Ceus piano and performer on piano strings. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch²¹: shimmering (17/05/2016). Audio installation. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch²²: Transplosions (17/05/2016). Installation for automated Ceus piano and video projection. AIL, Vienna.

Rasch^15-22: transposition not exhibition

Rasch²³ (05/10/2016) Performance for pianos, live-electronics, turntable, 3 video projectors. Casa da Musica, Porto.

Rasch²³₄. Divergent performance of Kreislerianum n. 4. Audio track.

Rasch²⁴: the somatheme. Article.

Rasch²⁵: vers la nuit (21/11/2017). Performance for pianos, live-electronics, turntable, 3 video projectors. Handelsbeurs, Ghent.

Rasch²⁶. Book chapter.

Rasch²⁷: in-friction (11/06/2018). Performance for pianos, live-electronics, 4 video projectors. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

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