Category: Solo / Tonband

Duration: ca. 14-16 Minutes Commissioned by Matthias Lorenz with kind support of Kunstraum geh8 (Dresden) WP: Dresden, 24.11.2017 (Matthias Lorenz) Further performances: Oldenburg 26.11.2107, Bremerhaven 27.11.2017, Berlin 6.11.2018, Prague 8.11.2018 (Czech premiere), Bremerhaven 30.6.2019, Oldenburg 1.7.2019, Dresden 4.7.2019 Publisher: Schott music Introduction (North polar ice drift. Source: Wikimedia commons) Linguistics has adopted the concept of…

Besetzung: Piano Duration: ca. 5‘ Publisher: Schott Music WP: 19.6.2012, New York, The Julliard’s School Paul Hall Michael Brown, piano Video on Youtube Introduction   Dob és tánc (Drum and Dance) is the title of a famous poem by the Hungarian writer Sándor Weöres. The beginning of this poem („csönd béke“) with its elastic rhythm…

Instrumentation: subcontrabass flute (or contrabass flute or bass flute) Duration: ca. 12 minutes Publisher: Schott Music (in preparation) Commissioned by the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik with support from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation WP: May 1, 2010, Weimar (Carin Levine) Further performances: May 3, 2010, Würzburg Introduction: maverick II [murmuring] is the second…

Duration: ca. 15‘ Publisher: Schott Music WP: March 7, 2009, Heinrichsruh (Susanne Stock) Introduction: The title hidden tracks is amibiguous. First of all, the piece is almost throughout imagined as „multi-track“, with layers (in the sense of sound tracks) that partly overlay each other, partly suddenly appear from the background. The composition deals with „hidden“…

Duration: 9‘ Publisher: Schott Music FP: August 24, 2008, Ahrenshoop (Theo Nabicht) Further performances: Dec 13, 2008, Ratzdorf, “Kajüte” July 30, 2013, Bamberg April 22, 2018, Tolstefanz April 24, 2018, Berlin Radio broadcast: May 25, 2009, Nordwestradio (Radio Bremen), musica nova Jan 26, 2011, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg CD: edition zeitklang (Theo Nabicht) Introduction: maverick I [noise]…

Duration: ca. 5 minutes Publisher: Schott Music A Minor Blues (Rue du Sentier, 1778) – the title refers to a key that Mozart used only exceptionally, but also to a slight resentment. Mozart‘s Piano Sonata in A Minor, problably written in the street mentioned in the subtitle, serves as background for this short, but somewhat…

Publisher: Schott Music Duration: ca. 11′ FP: Sep 26, 2002, Berlin (Ekkehard Windrich) Further performances: April 4, 2003, Stein am Rhein (Swiss premiere, Ekkehard Windrich) June 3, 2015, Tirana/Albania (Albanian premiere, Ekkehard Windrich) Introduction: 1. “Sarasate, whose first concert I missed, performed Mendelssohn’s Violin concerto last Saturday. Personally, I would have been all right with…

Instrumentation: bassoon, 4-channel-tape Duration: 13′30 FP: Chemnitz, 16.10.03 (Thomas Eberhardt, Bassoon) Further performances: Leipzig, 17.Oct. 2003 Dresden, Sept. 28, 2005 Introduction: Pits & Pendulums was composed in the studio for electronic music of the Dresden Music Academy, supported by a grant of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. While examinating the vast…

Duration: 8′ (#1: 5′, #2: 3′) FP: 18.5.1999, Helsinki Further performances: Jun 18, 2003, Dresden (German premiere) Apr 27, 2006, Magdeburg Radio broadcast: SFB 15.4.2002 (#2), MDR 3.4.03 Introduction: Studies on Pits and Pendulums was produced in the SACMUS-Studio of the Sibelius academy. The two movements, which are actually skteches for the project Pits &…

Publisher: Ms. (score upon request) Duration: ca. 9′ FP: October 12, 1998, Leipzig (Juliane Gilbert) Further performances: Dec 11, 1999, Dresden May 13, 2000, Dresden Sept 15, 2001, Annaberg Sept 19, 2001, Frankfurt/Main (Matthias Lorenz) Nov 21, 2003, Berlin July 20, 2005, Würzburg (Graham Waterhouse) Jan 30, 2009, Dresden Sept 10, 2011, Leipzig (Marika Gejrot)…

Duration: 8′ FP: Nov 12, 1997, Dresden Further performances: a.o. Nov 13, 1998, Helsinki (Finnish premiere) Introduction: The word ‘Tractus’ is of Latin origin, meaning an ‘even, permanent motion’. The composition is based on a permanent structure, consisting of thirteen overlapping layers which are related to prime numbers between 5 and 47. This structure is…