With ALL WORK – NO PLAY, I am searching for a musical form in which social processes can be depicted – without words, without characters, without theatre. I am interested in how power, responsibility and renewal can manifest themselves in the sound space: as relationships, as tensions, as a fragile balance.
I understand the work as a ritual. Music becomes political liturgy here: a place where community is formed, where orders arise and disintegrate, where diversity, control, resistance and new beginnings become audible.
For me, it is not about a message, but about a space for experience. What happens when play disappears, when systems take on a life of their own, when control supplants the living – and what if something new emerges afterwards? What if the ritual repeats itself as an eternal cycle?

Simon Gamper, August 2025