Partota 9

dedicated to Andreas Nebl and Oliver McCall
These both are the first interpreters of this duo, audible in the soundfile.
"Partota" rewrites "Partita" towards "pars" (the part of something bigger) and "totum" ( the whole
thing). Since the old "GOD" died long ago, we could leave our loneliness and look at the huge
wholeness of the world, which may have been created playfully, going towards an end less playful.
We may be like a picture of this wholeness. Though we die, before that we dance.
The subtitle, meaning "dance and death", refers to a series of Medieval pictures "Totentanz", a
round dance of death with the rich and the poor, the king and the beggar.
Zu dem Titel "PARTOTA": Ich wollte in der Umformung von "Partita" die Worte pars=der Teil
und totum=das Ganze verstecken als Verbeugung vor gewissen ganzheitlichen Denkweisen, die mir
nahe sind: Es ist, als k