Christian Banasik, bom 1963 in Siemianowice (Poland), lives in Germany since 1974. He 
studied composition with G¸nther Becker and Dimitri Terzakis at the 
Robert-Schumann-Academy of Music in D¸sseldorf. Postgraduate studies with Hans Zender 
(composition) and Hans-Dieter Resch (conducting) at the College of Music and Performing Arts
 in Frankfurt/Main. His instrumental and electronic music has been performed and broadcasted 
in numerous european countries (BBC London, SFB Berlin, WDR K61n, HR Frankfurt, VPRO Radio 
Holland, Polskie Radio, and Swedish National Radio) as well as in Nortli-and Southamerica, 
Asia and Australia. He was invited to international festivals as "Gaudeamus Music Week" in 
Amsterdam, "Berliner Biennale", "Klangforum Osnabriick", "Filmmusic Festival in Bonn", 
"Traiettorie Sonore" in Como, "Live Wires" in Sydney, "Computennusic-Festival in Seoul" , 
"Primavera en La Habana" in Kuba and the "Moscow Forum Festival". From 1994-1997 he was 
chairman of the music department in the guild of artist "Ktinstlergilde NRW". Banasik was the 
artistic director and organizer of multimedial events with new music, literature and fine arts
 as well as concerts with electroacoustic music. He developed an algorithmic composition 
software (AFSTS) for the Atari ST computers between 1991-1993. Beside live-electronics 
and computer-music Banasik has produced works for tape, radio-plays and film-soundtracks. 
He has received national and international music-awards and scholarships.

about  "...Ietzte Gebarde offener Munder"  (1998) duration of 16:30

The poetic and tonal basis of this piece are two poems written by Michael Wiistefeld 
(contemporary german writer) from his book 'Stadtplan" (1990). The texts which are written 
1986 and 1987 (in east-germany) describe numerous of subjective situations, feelings and 
thoughts from the view of a townsman. The poems have been recorded with a female and a 
male voice in a spoken and whispered way. After the preparations I could work with some 
variations, loops and alienations of the texts. The timbre of the different voices belongs to 
one plane which structures the piece. Furthermore I developed a text-analysis form for the 
written words consisting of seven groups of phonemes. This groups combined with 
algorithmic models controle the form of the piece and every single sound-objects. Using an 
own MAX-application I was able to work with the different combinations of numbers 1-7 
which have been used for musical parameters like material, duration, rhythm, stereophonic 
position and density. The semantic characteristic of the text-objects depends on real-time 
calculations which from time to time create something like a new synthetic language or 
atomic word-cells. With time-stretching methods I extended central words of the poems up 
to an umpteen of their length and formed new harmonic spectrums and "singing" 
tonal-characteristics. The piece develops from the sound of a female voice with the text ,
Die Begegnung mit euch" to the male voice and the poem Morgen schon besetzen wir". The 
man and the woman move through an atmospheric labyrinth of speech, noise and electronic 
sound-manipulation. All material has been composed or abstracted out of the 
speech-passages.

female voice: Katrin Degenhardt
male voice: Martin Baltscheit