Kurbel und Wolke (1997)
(for orchestra)

Bauckholt's starting point was the sound of a door creaking open. What a wealth of associations arise from this sound: Threat, danger, loneliness, darkness, something that cannot be located. Suddenly all the senses sharpen, they align themselves, seek points of orientation in the irritating. This network of perception and attempts at perception spreads out over the twenty-minute piece in a continuous form. At the beginning, the tension grows audibly in dense fields of sound. After a few minutes, the event that triggered the orchestral piece occurs. But the listener's attention is also already focused on the unexpected, solely due to the wandering, searching events in the orchestra: astonished, perplexed, hectic, lurking.

This is how Carola Bauckholt's music is generated in a very individual way. The sounds themselves perform a game, they come into contact with the listening subject, evoke sensations and react spontaneously to them. Tension arises, something breathtaking. And this is because Bauckholt allows the sound to retain its essence, and because she approaches it with a keen ear in the creative process, right down to the finest interweaving of relationships.

Reinhard Schulz