Glass Masks from DERT endemic songs / endemične pesmi

BABA: DERT endemic songs
Glass masks
full album of choir music entirely recorded on smartphones

Music: Tellu Turkka
Text: Karmina Šilec
Performers: CHOREGIE new music theatre
production: Carmina Slovenica
recorded: 2020/2021

The DERT project was created entirely during the rule of the coronavirus and is unique experiment. The rehearsals were conducted at home, individually, occasionally online. The performers used smartphones to record their own sections, which we later stitched together into the present album.

glass masks

at dusk she cuts locks of hair.
in the winter
she wraps them in a piece of cloth.
in the winter
with each cut, she counts off a day.
in the winter


she paints a face on a mirror.
in the spring
she glues locks around this face.
in the spring
she combs her hair.
in the spring



she rehearses new faces every morning.
in the summer
the girl in the mirror is her audience.
in the summer
she plays the roles of others.
in the summer


she has a huge collection of hair.
in the autumn
she sticks the girl's hair on vases and bottles.
in the autumn
she tires of the mirror girl’s image.
in the autumn


her room is full of green and brown faces.
in the winter
her room is full of these glass masks with old wigs.
in the winter
in the spring. in the summer. in the autumn, winter, spring, summer, autumn, …
** Dert is part of choregie project BABA
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