Max Levy

Songs of Hesitation/Songs of Waiting places two dancers, two wills and two spaces amidst one another, raising doubts, adjustments, reconsiderations, and decisions against each other; the stretching of time in moments of stasis and silence, and how one attends to the tensions we carry and release through our pursuits, avoidance, and commitments. When one stops spinning about from action to action, what reverberations remain in mind, body, and space?

Songs of Hesitation/Songs of Waiting was performed as an open-air performance for the comissioned collaboration with saasfee*soundpark 08, an atmospheric sound installation within saasfee*pavillon’s exhibition program. Since 2017, saasfee* has invited musicians to compose site-specific sound installations and collages, where the garden below the pavillon becomes a spatial template for compositions and artistic interventions. With soundpark 08, Levy’s musical interpretations touch on the negotiations of time, decisions, and patience within a space meant to pass time. These suspended remnants explore the dialogue between public space and spatial negotiation, using the open garden as a sonic contact point to dissolve the barrier between ambience and spectatorship.

Songs of Hesitation/Songs of Waiting is available in limited casette tapes, as well as via online streaming.

Original Composition: Max Levy
Mastered by: Philipp Rumsch at nynode studio

Performance:
Choreography: Max Levy with Emma Rasmussen
Performers: Max Levy, Emma Rasmussen
Photos: Günter Krämmer, Moni Friebe

Premier: 17.06.2023; saasfee*soundpark

Songs of Hesitation/Songs of Waiting is produced by saasfee*pavillon in the frame of saasfee*soundpark 08.

Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Science Frankfurt, the Crespo Foundation, and the Polytechnische Gesellschaft Foundation as part of the program Kulturerwachen Frankfurt 2023