A DISEMBODIED HAND

Fragments of Anton Bruckners 8th Symphony, Trio recomposed by Peter Androsch

This video is part of Peter Androsch's KINEMATOMETAPHORATON
Railways, film, accordion, and Anton Bruckner

Peter Androsch has carved miniatures out of Anton Bruckner's music and recomposed them for the accordion, an instrument that was born at the same time as Bruckner (and grew up with him and is more alive today than ever). Then one wonders why Bruckner composed in the same way that films are made today: cuts, cross-fades, black screens, repetitions. Yes, because film is a child of the railroad, says Christa! All right? And that's why everything comes together in the Kinematometaphoraton: railways, film, accordion, and Anton Bruckner back on earth, as he has been since 1996. Mostly as dead man walking—admittedly, he looks a little strange.

During his time in Vienna, Bruckner got to know the wonderful Addamovic family. They later emigrated to America. Father Addamovic enjoyed staging train accidents with his model railway. That was ultra-modern at the time. Only today does this seem like a premonition of Bruckner's miraculous rescue in the London Underground. In his famous notebook he noted down the strange preferences of the Addamovic family: smoking cigars, roses with severed heads, sweaters with too many sleeves, the decapitated doll, an octopus, a mustache, light bulbs glowing in the uncle's mouth, an alligator, a harpsichord, the swordfish with a human foot in its mouth, polar bear skin, and of course the ice-cold hand, a disembodied hand.


Accordion: Manuela Kloibmüller
Recording, video, editing: Claus Prellinger
Idea, concept, image, music: Peter Androsch
BMWKMS, Linz, CCP-Studio
© Peter Androsch 2026