Phenomenalistic Blackouts (2021)for bass flute by Arda Bayram published on 2021-09-08T12:56:23Z Susanne Peters, bass flute Audio, video recording x editing ǀ Samuel Fried “A whole world of pain is contained in these words.’ How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up with them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.” After reading this passage, confusion and curiosity led me to compose a piece to explore questions/reactions occurred in my mind. One of the first questions is that how can one be emotionally affected from a sentence which has no intention to be poetic or dramatic but only to exemplify a language phenomenon in a direct way. The thing made me to use this sentence as a text is its potential to evoke ideas and emotions by forcing one to make associations in one’s mind. Otherwise the sentence won’t show where/how “A whole world of pain is contained.”. This dependency on individual association networks opens the doors for multiple meaning. Multiple meaning corresponds to multiple perspective of time, aesthetic and narrative in the piece. The piece is built on interactions and isolations between these aspects. Differences and familiarities between blocks in terms of these aspects evolve to three sections because of proportional alterations. In the piece, I used the sentence in many different ways, sometimes as musical material based on its phonetic structure, sometimes to create a theatrical drama between voice and flute, sometimes very direct and plain, sometimes melted in texture and sometimes by focusing on its syntactic construction to shape the form of the piece.