ROASTBEEF. By the POW Ensemble
Roastbeef. A clip from our production STEIN.
Music: Luc Houtkamp (2014) Text: Gertrude Stein: Roastbeef (from Tender Buttons, 1914)
POW Ensemble:
Stephanie Pan – voice, vocoder
Axel Schappert - tuba
Peter Kuit – tap dance
Luc Houtkamp – electronics, tenor saxophone, percussion
Video clip by Tessa Joosse
ROASTBEEF.
In the inside there is sleeping, in the outside there is reddening,
in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
In the evening there is feeling. In feeling anything is resting,
in feeling anything is mounting, in feeling there is resignation,
in feeling there is recognition, in feeling there is recurrence
and entirely mistaken there is pinching.
All the standards have steamers and all the curtains have bed linen
and all the yellow has discrimination and all the circle has circling.
This makes sand.
Very well. Certainly the length is thinner and the rest,
the round rest has a longer summer. To shine, why not shine, to shine,
to station, to enlarge, to hurry the measure all this means nothing
if there is singing, if there is singing then there is the resumption.
Gertrude Stein: Roastbeef (from Tender Buttons, 1914)