Manuela by Hex Kist

Songs inspired by Manuela, iconic protagonist of the 1931 German film Mädchen in Uniform.

“Mädchen in Uniform, a classic account of forbidden love in a girl’s boarding school, is both an expression of anti-fascism and a lesbian coming-out story." (NY Times)

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Hex Kist is the post-Romantic, one-woman experimental project of Jimena Hellebore, threading and collaging fragile musical remains and their intimacies... Hex Kist is centrally concerned with musical decompositions and relics of old forgotten songs, with fragments of collapsed melodies that once were perhaps beautiful and now are broken and submerged in a tempest of noise. But there can be satirical laughter too in mourning; desire amidst encounters with death; the ironies of meaninglessness and their narratives. To gaze into the burial chamber is to hear echoes of life pulling you into death. All those words show a line post-Romanticism walks, the line between philosophical depth and gothic melodrama in an age of ennui and technological maladaptations.

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbarism.” ~Adorno.

"Awaken yourselves, nymphs of the underground. And collage me a pattern in a yonder hotel. Away from seed fields and street siren harvests." ~Anonymous


Hex Kist is the one-woman experimental project of sound-designer and researcher Jimena Hellebore centered on cinematic soundscapes of found sounds and compositional fragments