“Composing means first of all: destruction.” The modus operandi of the composer Charlotte Seither begins with the splitting up of the “objects of our composing”; every pre-existing correlation, from the traditional genre to the configuration of the individual pitches, is deconstructed. However, this principle of “dissociation” does not mean disintegration: Rather, it describes a patient exploration of the inner life of the sounds and the organized dissection of these sounds down to their atomic parts. The result is material that can be used for new compositional purposes: it is so completely “dissociated” that it is liberated from the uses and meanings that once surrounded it.
