The phonetic decoration text factory  onophon has, since 2001, consisted of Rainer Deutner and Werner Nowacek. With their first programme 'action poetry' they divested themselves of their superfluous language. In the new programme 'GLOTTAL STOP' the two language percussionists deliver vibrating single word membranes, along with overdeveloped speech arabesques, and they immerse themselves in the linguistic sediment of everyday commercial life.







onophon combines elements from literature, theatre,
music and spoken word performance. Using a cappella techniques, onophon rhythmizes and improvises everyday speech patterns
and submits language to pronounciation until it rhythmically refracts.
At most the semantics get out of breath - but not the duo of language artists. And certainly not the humour. Easily digestible decoration texts are being created that - casually and totally onophon - permit a few perceptions from the fermenting cellar of language.


S t u m p f / s t u m p
       the recent programme of  onophon

G L O T T I S S T O P P / G L O T T A L  S T O P
       the second programme of  onophon (2003-2005),
       minimal speaking, vibrating single word membranes,
       overrefined speech arabesques
       (Glottal stop - guttural sound when glottal folds pressed together)

e i n s a t z d i c h t u n g / a c t i o n  p o e t r y
       onophons first full-length programme (2001-2003),
       a dramatic face-to-face performance, language acrobatics,
       word juggling

p r i g o p h o n
       joint performance with Dmitri Prigov (visualist, object artist,
       performer, author, living and working in Moskow/London)

a n l a s s d i c h t u n g / o c c a s i o n  p o e t r y
       is onophons customized programme

b e i l a g d i c h t u n g / a d d i t i o n  p o e t r y
       is a background live contribution, DJ-line mixing with spoken word

m o o s / m o s s
       workshop about the pleasure in speaking