N O W H E R E - 2nd movement

“ZART una cantata moebius” (2008) by Hofstetter Kurt is a composition of four movements with especially created sounds, the so-called moebius sounds, which sound the same when played forwards or backwards. When overlaid, these sounds provide a pendant to the timeless principle of moebius loop. “ZART” mediates a musical experience on the ‘horizon of contemporary events’. At the moment of their acoustic perception, electronically generated moebius sounds unfold their sonic potential which is directed both at the past and the future. The sound and moving image composition “NO W H E R E” (2012) by Hofstetter Kurt and Barbara Doser is the synthetic interlacing of the moebius cantata “ZART” played backwards with video feedback materials. Since the composition “ZART” follows a strictly musical dramaturgy, as a totality, it is not a moebius sound. By means of the identically sounding moebius sounds, its experimental reverse playback simulates a forward movement, and carries off the recipients through a dramatu