Talk Show – The Wave: Danger or Opportunity? is a comic score situated between music, drawing, and political theatre. In a fictitious talk show, two positions collide: one guest declares the “wave” an existential threat and calls for regulation and isolation, while the other speaks of opportunities, statistics, and integration. It soon becomes clear that the wave is less a natural phenomenon than a metaphor—for social upheaval, for migration, for the “other” that triggers fear and becomes rhetorically charged.

The piece shows how talk-show logic compresses complexity into buzzwords: outrage, moral disparagement, supposed objectivity—and, in the end, an abrupt break without any resolution. Precisely because the “wave” is negotiated as an image, the comic score exposes how language shapes reality—and how easily metaphors can dehumanize. Music and text comment on one another: rhythmic intensifications, contrasts, and ruptures mirror the escalation of the debate until only one diagnosis remains: society is divided.