Liberty – a game

2019, 6'04''

A free acoustic figuration.
Artificial or real?
„Liberty – a game“ manipulates sound concepts and questions the listener’s perception.
The compositional approach: I use sound fragments as if they were musical instruments.

Looted cityscape

2009, 8'34''

In this piece „Looted Cityscape“ social structures dissolve one another. Virtual and actual event worlds communicate with each other. Sound material: a melody played on a toy instrument, spoken choral fragments, sounds discovered in a city.

Songs of November, 3 fragments

2008, 4'24''

Broken pieces of a wind band, prayers, swaths of fog over cool ground. An oath of nature and our alliance with the elements earth, air, water and fire.

Summer, 5 fragments

2008, 5'38''

These fragments are an homage to Summer – sound-snapshots of intense moments of fugitive moods.
Pictorial expression is essential, as well as brevity, density and economy of sound material used in these acoustical miniatures, which have been assembled from bits of music, little noises and background sounds, which in turn have been extracted from remembered, supposed and dreamed mood moments.

Tumbling and swinging

2000, 8'59''

Voice and accordeon: Fränzi Madörin

The acoustical memory, the audio archive in head and body. Recollected melodic and motion fragments are mounted into sketches, short acoustical poems. Interpretation suggestions and tempo markings of movements of musical works form the spoken material. The fairy waves her magic wand and comments.

The sickroom

2007, 9'02''

This acoustical poem confronts us with the fragility and mortality of the body, with the subtle signs which it radiates, as
well as with hidden beauties, which appear unexpectedly.
Audio point of departure is the Theme of the E-flat major Variations by Robert Schumann.  The singer heard the melody through headphones and improvised upon it.

Sailing with Schubert

2006, 4'21''

Text: Friedrich Leopold, Count of Stolberg-Stolberg

Point of departure for this sailboat trip is Opus 72 by Franz Schubert.
By the use of analog and digital electronics we sail
on a sea of fantasy and distance ourselves step by step from the original.  The landing is uncertain..

Turns and twists

2007, 6'45''

The dance of bodies and material. The motion of sound producing bodies and material is composed with sound fragments and economically used electronics into a little Suite in 13 movements. Johannes Brahms‘ Waltz in A-flat major, opus 39, no. 15 serves as musical point of departure.

Free body – free sound

2001, 9'31''

(Corpo libero – suono libero)
Voice: Saadet Türköz

Musical garbage, noise and silence and the human body, which manipulated and conditioned itself, recollects strengths and attempts to free itself. The intimate nearness of creative and destructive expressive potentials.

Test tube (Trailer)

2019, 0'54''

Audiovisual installation in the Soundgalerie Ohrenhoch Berlin

It grumbles, jerks and yearns… 
Curator, loudspeaker installations: Knut Remond

 

The development of systems which can recognize, interpret, process and simulate human emotions goes ahead. This provokes questions: Where is the difference between artificial and real? What happens to indefinable moods?

In „Test Tube“ the measurement of human emotions is the topic.

Sounds and noises from our everyday life, which draw, reform and manipulate subconces emotions, are collected. This audio material is nested, taken apart or condensed in sound balls. Spoken words describe a possible meaning.

Fictive scenarios and undefinable ambiances arise and disappear again. It grumbles, jerks and yearns…

In this interplay/counterplay of fragmented ambiaces, the borders between artificial and real are demanded and varied.

To be…in the kitchen

2016, 1'14''

Audio-Videowork 

Curator, loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond

 

Oil, water sugar and Mariechen..the longing is immense.
From the center of the kitchen, from the stove, a sort of kitchen-scape is drawn, where pans clatter and soup simmers.
„Je suis in the kitchen“ is derived from fragments of kitchen songs, which used to be sung by servants in bourgeois homes while doing their work.
In the composition, I have taken this historical category of fok poems, and spiced it with irritating moments and associative ideas in order to break the sentimental tonal basis.
I found the juxtaposition of harmony and disturbing elements to be most interesting. Acoustical and visual materials gets worked over, ordered and concentrated.
„Je suis in the kitchen“ rediscovers the ambivalence between fear and longing, between opinion and feelings.
It is stirred in the soup. An intact world is summoned, which is repeatedly disturbed.

1800 meters above sea level (extract)

2014, 7'01''

1800 meters above sea level (extract)

12-channel installation for the Project USAP (Urban Solar Audio Plant) from Peter Eisold and Micha Dawid.
The acoustic material of this sound, which originates from the foothills of the alps, is of a narrative sort, telling of nature, of myths and spirits. In a 12-channel installation, the acoustic tracks of the experiential world „foothills region“ are staged in variously dense, sometimes static, sometimes in more dynamic acoustic images. 

Still

1989, 16'21''

Soundscape

Strolling along

1989, 15'39''