WORKS
|
Libretto for Ying Wang's chamber opera "Lorry 39"
premiere Theater Freiburg, 9.10.2022 / part of "Escape" performances in October and November 2022 Link to oper Freiburg Music: Ying Wang Libretto: Andreas Karl Mezzosopran: Inga Schäfer Statisterie des Theater Freiburg Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg Live-Elektronische Realisation SWR Experimentalstudio: Maurice Oeser und Thomas Hummel (Klangregie) Musikalische Leitung: Detlef Heusinger Regie: Thomas Fiedler Bühne und Kostüme: Christian Wiehle Video: Stefan Bischoff, Kevin Graber Licht: Dorothee Hoff Dramaturgie: Tatjana Beyer, Annika Hertwig Lorry 39 is an artistic exploration of the dismay and anger left by the news of the tragic event of October 22 and 23, 2019. The incomprehensible agony in the dark, blazing hot container; the lies and compulsions that led to this journey in the first place; the fatal consequences of small omissions, coincidences and mistakes; the angry disappointment that after Parndorf something like this could happen again. In the face of this, even the language of protocols fails - the music takes over and music theater emerges. There, anger, disappointment and speechlessness become a kind of tension, of artistic discrepancy, which becomes the motor of the music theater, and which offers the possibility of awareness and discourse without having to struggle for answers. "Ihr Musiktheater ist eine Art klaustrophobisches Protokoll, fokussiert in den Empfindungen einer Protagonistin ..." Opernwelt Programmhefttext auf Deutsch: 
|
Lorry 39 was on the cover of "Opern Welt"
| ||
|
Libretto for Ying Wang's chamber piece "Janus"
for one male voice and ensemble premiere 6.11.2022, Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Janus, an overly self-obsessed god is confronted with his misbehavior. |
Der römische Gott Janus hat zwei Gesichter, je eines für das andere Ende des einen. Er ist Gott des Beginns und des Endes, der Ein- und Ausgänge, der Zukunft und der Vergangenheit – und vielleicht noch wichtiger, er ist auch Gott des Dazwischen – also des Übergangs. Türen und Durchgänge gehorchen ihm. Er ist noch heute Teil von Alltagskultur. Die antike Darstellung des Doppelkopfes taugt ausgezeichnet zum Logo unzähliger Firmen, Institutionen oder fiktiver Verbrechersyndikate, die sich dessen Ambivalenz als Umsichtigkeit umhängen. Wer sich mit Dialektik schmückt, glaubt immer recht zu haben.
Auch Janus selbst ist sein Bescheidwissen schon lang zu Kopf gestiegen und zur Besserwisserei geworden. Arrogant stellt er sich im Namen seiner Klugheit, Regeln und „Moral“ über andere. Sein Entitlement trübt seine Blicke. Jeder Ort und jede Zeit hat ihren Janus. Die Musik von Janus zeigt seine wahren Gesichter und stellt sich ihm entgegen. Nun ist die Musik eine Kunst des Übergangs; jede Melodie, jede sich bewegende Textur entsteht überhaupt erst im Sich-entwickeln. Wer über Beginn, Ende und die Übergänge herrscht, also kontrolliert, wie alles sich entwickelt, wäre wohl auch als Gott der Musik gut zu gebrauchen. Genau hier setzt die Musik von Janus an: Sie befreit sich von Janus‘ Regelwerk. Sie bricht die Übergänge, springt von falschen Beginnen zu falschen Enden. Sie raubt Janus die Kontrolle über das Werden der Dinge. Er muss sich unberechenbaren Sprüngen „ergeben“ – immer und immer wieder. Was uns eine spielerische, unmittelbare Musik ist, ist für den Besserwisser Janus, der alle Prozesse beherrschen will, eine Tortur. |
|
Music for the video installation "dust to dust" by Yang Song 楊淞 (2022)
for five instruments 5:30 min opening July 16 2022, Yuan Museum, Beijing TRAILER ->>>>>>>>>>>>> |
|
|
Lau (2022)
scored interaction for 3 musicians, 3 aquariums, colors, tools together with Christina Dörfler to be performed in bathrooms Farbthermostate::rasende und erstarrende Moleküle::Siedepunkt und Taupunkt::Balance und Kontrollverlust::Trennung und Mischung::kommunizierende Gefäße::die Duschtemperatur regelt sich nicht von selbst. part of the nass zell flux event by aiaia Link: https://aiaia.at/nasszellflux/ 9 April 2022 several private flats in Vienna |
|
|
Music for Hou Ying Dance Theatre's new piece Disappear (2021)
for 5 instruments 90 min Premiere: October 15, 16 2021, Shanghai International Dance Theatre; Further performces: July 27, 2022, Beijing, Tianqiao Theatre |
|
|
|
|
PARALLEL ENCOUNTERS
session #2 in a-minor for Andreas Karl February 2022 curated by Han-Gyeol Lie in cooperation with .akut – Association for Aesthetics and Applied Cultural Theory art-loft Berlin |
|
|
Music for the installation "Log_Inn" by hoelb/hoeb (2021)
music for real life size video installation based on 3D models within the performance/exhibition project "Log_Inn" by hoelb/hoeb (2021) Exhibition: Graz Schaumbad (September 2021) Music for the VR exhibition/performance LOSS_expands – coping with grief (2022) Exhibition: Vienna Brut (April 2022) 8 different stations/situations/characters, each of them has its own musical world and motives. |
LOSS_expands.mov from hoelb hoeb on Vimeo. |
|
Libretto (as my alter ego) for the piece DELETE [sic!] (2021) for voice and ensemble by the composer Ying Wang.
www.yingwang.de Unser gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt war folgender Gedanke: Mensch sein bedeutet Gedächtnis – individuelles und kulturelles; sich zu erinnern und auch zu vergessen. Doch wieviel Vergessen brauchen oder vertragen wir? Wann überschreitet die Vergesslichkeit die Grenzen der Moral? Unsere Erinnerungen sind auch vor uns nicht sicher. Sie vermischen sich mit Wünschen, vielleicht sogar mit Lügen. Ein Teil unseres Lebens ist von uns selbst erfunden, ein Teil von Anderen: Erinnerungen, medial implantiert, zensiert von Manipulationsdiktaturen. Was wäre, wenn wir nicht vergessen könnten? Die totale Verfügbarkeit der Vergangenheit könnte unseren Blick auf uns selbst maßgeblich ändern. Das selbst Erlebte zu vergessen, ist etwas anderes als etwas nie erlebt zu haben. Ein Rest bleibt immer, wenn auch tief verborgen und über die Zeit hinweg stark verfremdet. Das was von den meisten Tragödien bleibt sind dennoch nur Notizen. In manchen Fällen sogar nur Zahlen. |
|
|
pa shan hu (2021)
or "Two tigers climb a mountain that seems to have nothing to eat." for solo voice A scenic hiking song for Helēna Sorokina It could be a song that the monkey king Sun Wukong, a god-like being equipped with supernatural powers, sang on his “journey to the west”. In the 16th century novel of the same name, he has to protect the somewhat annoying monk Tripitaka, who regularly stumbles also into the most obvious traps of man-eating demons. The further they go west, the more often they are confronted with opponents who are capable of the art of transformation and deception. In this little piece here, one of the tigers also seems to be a demon with the power of metamorphosis. It turns out to be a demonic tiger-eating creeping plant: a form of boston ivy, a wild wine that climbs and covers entire walls. It is called “pa shan hu” in Chinese, literally translated as “tiger climbing a mountain”. In my little story, this transformed plant lures stray tigers to a mountain top to devour them. During the ascent, the demonic tiger tries to sing a pentatonic song, but the melody seems forced and a bit off, as if he is trying to imitate a folk song without ever having really learned one. He cannot detach himself enough from the newly learned spoken language (and the four tones of Chinese) to sing melodiously flowing lines. He also makes a few small “tone”-mistakes. The real tiger sings at the same time "liang zhi laohu" - the Chinese version of "Frère Jacques", which instead of brother John is about two tigers. The climbing passages are interrupted by short breaks with dialogue like character. The tigers tell each other about previous climbing tours or try meditation. These moments of rest are also always based on the words of the two songs sung throughout the piece. They are reinterpreted and loaded with scenic gestures. The higher they climb the mountain, the longer the breaks, the slower the songs and the more tired both climbers get, the more the tension and distrust between the two grows. The increasingly greedy demon tiger sneaks up on its prey, its intervals are becoming smaller and crouched. The real tiger sticks to its initial intervals, but now knows that something is wrong. At the mountain peak, the demon tiger sings a short transformation melody, turns back into his true shape, and shows his evil intentions… As he descends, he sings the tune backwards and turns back into a tiger. In my perception, singing provides every language the character of a fantasy language. That's one of the qualities of singing; it opens the language to further associations and other types of understanding. In Chinese this is multiplied by the many meanings that the characters and syllables have. In this way the text turns into a scenic sound poem, painted with concatenated ambiguities. |
[ 喂! | Wèi | Hey! / feeding animals ]
一只虎上山 | Yì zhī hǔ shàng shān | a tiger climbs a mountain 山上爬山虎 | Shān shàng pá shānhǔ | up the mountain a tiger climbs / up the mountain there is boston ivy 老虎不吃菜 | Láohǔ bù chī cài | Tigers don’t eat vegetables 爬山虎吃虎 | Páshānhǔ chī hǔ | Tigers climbing a mountain eat tigers / boston ivy eats tigers (Mang Cangcang/Cornelius Berkowitz) 两只老虎 | Liǎng zhī láohǔ | two tigers 跑得快 | pǎo dé kuài | running fast 跑得慢 | Pǎo dé màn |running slow 一只没有眼睛 | Yì zhī méiyǒu yǎnjīng | one does not have eyes 一只没有尾巴 | Yì zhī méiyǒu wěibā | one does not have a tail 两只没有饭吃 | Liǎng zhī méiyǒu fànchī | both have nothing to eat 有没有 | Yǒu méi yǒu | or do they? 真奇怪 | zhēn qíguài | how strange (Chinese version of “Brother John”/ „Frère Jacques“ with some add ups by Cornelius Berkowitz) |
|
Peking Autumn Palimpsest (2020)
music for an audio theatre play and city walk through 1920ties Beijing for oboe, dulcimer, guitar, glockenspiel other music used in this piece by Dong Lingyi, Beat Furrer and Manuel Cardorso Theatre play based on letters by Shen Congwen. Adapted by Liang Dandan. Beijing Autumn 2020 and again in 2021 |
|
|
Translations (2020) (Wachstumsdramen / Dramas of growth)
[Study on music, images and meaning 1] for smartphone videos, calligraphy and instruments based on 2 poems by Mang Cangcang with calligraphy from 9shang. premiered online on 17th of August at pink umbrellas art residency Sao Paolo some thoughts: In the process of translating a poetic, open and condensed text, the ideas and images of this text are growing, taking side-turns, are disappearing, are re-emerging in variations, there are misunderstandings and sometimes they are getting out of hand and find their own identity. “Dramas of growth” shows the process of translating 2 poems from Chinese into German. The wide semantical polyphony every Chinese character carries, is met with music, video and calligraphy. In this, “Dramas of growth” follows a musical counterpoint logic brought upon the text and pictures. “Growth” is also the common topic of the 2 poems. One refers to growth in a city environment, one to the biological growth of nature. In the translation process they influence each other and ideas from the first poem take over ideas from the second one. The two poems start to grow into each other. Multiple relations between the poems are created in that way, creating new perspectives on their own dramas. Like in a translation process, not one word pushes away another one, but both remain and grow into each other. The poet Mang Cang Cang 莽苍苍 lives in Beijing, in a dry northern climate, the composer Cornelius Berkowitz on the Austrian countryside, the calligrapher 9SHANG九尚 is in Bose (Guang Xi, South China on the border to Vietnam). In their environment all of them experience different forms of growth and the drama it creates. Their communication is based on translations.
|
|
|
Sayings (2021)
[Study on music, images and meaning 2] for smartphone videos and instruments #1 psycho analysis #2 lead #3 codex interlude #1 #4 psycho analysis #5 morning #6 vicious circle of fifths #7 the future interlude #2. Déjà-vu #8 psycho analysis #9 trees postlude. pangea |
|
|
Analogies (2022)
[Study on music, images and meaning 3] for smartphone videos and instruments #1 art and nature #2 map and terrain #3 melody and text (from 千字文) #4 a minor and c major Interlude #1 #5 vowels and temperature (cold stretch) #6 borders and language Interlude #2 # funeral march and traffic (departure herald 明人畫入蹕圖 ) analogies shall never be further elaborated |
|
|
The eyelids still refuse to dry up (2020)
for 4 musicians This piece is based on the poem 眼睛 (yanjing, "eye") by 莽苍苍 (Mang Cangcang) and thoughts about erosion and change over time. Erosion by wind, sand, water but also by our imagination. What could a place, a landscape become, what was it like before we have seen it. Several transformations are happening in this piece at the same time and in different speeds, sometimes together, sometimes overlapping. Constantly new things appear out of old material. The poem is like another perspective on those transformations. The music brings them together. The piece was inspired by pictures of 恶魔之眼 (devil’s eye) in 青海 (Qinghai), maps of the same area and the music of 王啸 (Wang Xiao). The piece is like a map of a place changing over time, or like the chemical and physical description of an erosion process, but without having all the colours, surface textures, details and cultural connections to the place it describes. Like a look from far away. Those details, or better this “life” is given to the piece by the musicians playing it. During the piece more and parts come in where the musicians need to improvise and bring in their musical background. The piece is based on 4 different sound textures that constantly change their shape throughout the piece. They also can be seen as different types of erosion. Each texture has also 4 different main “shapes”, as well as combinations with each other and “in-between”-shapes. They are gradually changed by erosion from wind, sand, water and imagination. At the end the textures are quite far from their initial shape. The 4 different sound materials are also distributed onto the 4 musicians. Erosion is not necessary “deleting” things, it is primarily changing things. The piece also incorporates steadily growing parts of improvisation. So, the “human erosion” - the imagination, is taking over more and more. Due to corona postponed to the afterlife. |
|
|
Libretto (as my alter ego) together with Katherina Kinzel - for the chamber opera The Envoy (2020) for two voices and ensemble by the composer Song Yang.
www.yang-song-composer.com 1977 the probe Voyager 1 is sent into space. 2012 she left our solar system. Scientists said she should deplete all her energy resources by 2025 but somehow she didn’t. About 100 years from now she still travels in the interstellar void. Pluto has long passed by; a final picture was taken and sent home. Since then: silence. Nothing to see, nothing to report. No purpose. The communication with the scientists on Earth had stopped long ago - the distance too far. Left alone, the outer void becomes an inner void. Voyager starts to feels abandoned, feels anger and desperation. She recalls what she has seen and dwells in her memories. In there she finds a message left for her. She start to discover what she is carrying with her all along the way. A golden disc full of information, language and music. Among them Orfeo. Monteverdi’s first opera becomes a source of hope and identification. Orfeo, walking alone into the darkness of the unknown underworld, not supposed to turn back, seeking for something lost. Like him, in emotional turmoil, she gains confidence from music and sends back one last message. |
|
|
Two out of three pop songs (2020)
two arrangements for piano solo |
I. Duran Duran - The Chauffeur
II. Annie - Berlin Breakdown |
|
Graphic Notation Book #3a and #3b
Warten | 盼望 1 and 2 (2021) For any instrument or combination of instruments. This is a musical score. There are two parts. This is a piece about waiting towards something. The pictures of part 1 were taken at the construction site of the Schuetz Museum in Engelhartszell. The pictures of part 2 during a 22 day long quarantine stay at the Wendu Shuicheng Lake Bay Hotel in the north of Beijing, which served as one of the cities quarantine venues during the covid19 pandemic. Both scores have the same number of pages, they can be played parallel or alternating next to each other. The pictures in this book are not professional photographs. They are merely musical sketches in the form of photography |
|
|
Graphic Notation Book #2
Beijing haze and light (2018-2020) For any instrument or combination of instruments. This is a musical score. The city is the rhythm and structure. Haze and light are color changes. It is the view from the 16th floor of the dormitory of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing towards east. Shot between October 2018 and January 2020. The pictures in this book are not professional photographs. They are merely musical sketches in the form of photography |
|
|
Graphic Notation Book #1
Landschaft mit Fernportraits 望回信 (2019-2020) 61 pictures that could be musical pieces. For any instrument or combination of instruments. All pictures share the same person placed in the center of the picture. Sometimes standing, sitting, hiding, gazing, with different accents, colors, emotional moods and in different positions and sizes. The environment changes from picture to picture, sometimes in distant leaps, sometimes in small steps. There are augmentations and diminuations, variations, sequences and imitations, within one score and also throughout the whole collection. Material appears in all states of growth: blooming, adolescent, fully grown and cut down again, distributed over a field or put into a shelf. The score can be read either from the center outward or from the outer frame inward, following a spiral or concentric circles. This person in the center is the idée fixe of this piece. Its musical shape can change as the situation of the person changes from picture to picture. If the person is big or distinct from the environment the material should be more prominent. If the person is far away, hidden or blurred with the environment it should be more subtle. But all variations should remain in recognizable relation to each other. It is either the beginning or the end of a piece. 10 copies of the book are given to selected musicians and composers. The selection is based on the gradual darkening of the sun light. Advancing through the hours of the day. |
|
|
What is a garden? (2019)
music for pictures for dulcimer, theremin, guitar, loops, spoken voice, movements Prints of Gfeller+Hellsgard read as graphic score combined with poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa (谷川 俊太郎), Ali Ahmad Said (Adonis), Mang Cang Cang (莽苍苍). |
|
|
Ich kann nicht zwischen das Meer und den Himmel sehen (2019)
for piano solo and spoken voice based on a poem by Mang Cang Cang (莽苍苍, Beijing) |
|
|
LUKREZ RGB (2018)
music for short film by Andreas Mueller for theremin, guitar, violin, doublebass, hammered dulcimer "LUKREZ RGB" interprets Lucretius’ revolutionary theories on the origin of our planet, the celestial bodies and the universe, with intense images. Written over 2,000 years ago the text, which the film is based on, unfolds a lost perspective, that seems outdated from today's point of view. A thought pattern that seems incompatible with our modern research methods and theories, but yet it anticipates the findings of the present sciences. In Lucretius’ text this is shown in his doubt about a higher intelligence, that controls the formation of the universe. A distinction between mind and matter is alien to him, both concepts rank on the same level. In doing so, he allows chance a decisive role in the process of creating the cosmos, whose elements are reduced to their corporeal components. In analogy to this paradigm, the three primary colors red, green and blue refer in the film "LUKREZ RGB“ to the non-tangible. They represent the basics of the image, the light colors, from which all colors can be formed. The formal structure of each scene is determined by grids and arches. In the film the grid organises the image surface in a way that inseparably unites similar elements, creating a uniform overall structure, which in turn is broken up by the curves of the arches. According to the use of these basic elements, the film takes a look back at old techniques of film history with a twinkling eye, and plays with our perception by closely connecting documentary shots and fictional images, that interpret the text. The music by Cornelius Berkowitz follows the film's images and the ideas of Lucretius into a world of shifted proportions and constellations, which transcends the horizon of our perception. The instruments appearing are the hammered dulcimer, theremin, violin, doublebass and effect pedals. – Carmen Baumschlager, 2018 see: Andreas Mueller / Mueller concept |
photo: Andreas Müller, Still from the film LUKREZ RGB, 10min16sec, 2018
|
|
Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb (2018)
music for a picture for double bass, cello and dulcimer A piece to be played as a soundinstallation at an exhibition of hoelb/hoeb. Hoelb/hoeb's project IG-Verlust deals with the many forms of loss. In the case of Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb with the death of a glacier. the piece is part of hoelb/hoeb - Grab the pillow
part of exhibition project "HILFSLINIEN" at Volkskunde Museum Vienna. A link to a recording of "Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb" is printed on pillows, distributed in the park inside the Volkskunde Museum Vienna. A project by hoelb/hoeb. Opening 14.9.2022 18:00 Link |
|
|
Hic sunt dracones (2017)
music for a fashion collection for cello, hammered dulcimer and theremin A piece for a collection and fashion show by Dominique Raffa / R! see: Dominique Raffa MQ Vienna Fashion Week |
|
|
Spieluhrbruchstücke (2017)
music for a jewelry collection for celesta, piano, glockenspiel, theremin, bass Music for jewelry and cloth collection of Beijing label ARP (Atelier Rouge Pekin) a short trailer for a collaboration between ARP and Yang Song 楊淞 used also parts of that music. See: ARP |
|
|
Gran – ”Bum Zack“ Orchestersuite „Sonnenland“ arrangiert von Cornelius Berkowitz (2017)
Für WIENWOCHE Sanatorium Sonnenland, Kurkonzert für drei chorische Stimmen, Solo Sopran, drei Gitarren, drei Synthies, Bass, zwei Percussion |
|
|
Sieben Klingeltöne (2017)
for piano solo seven short minatures intended to be recorded and used on a phone or to be played as a piece in 7 movements. for Han-Gyeol Lie |
I. 10 Finger zählts an einer Han(d)... für jemand bei dem man nicht rangehen will
II. Telegram Arpeggio III. WhatsApp oder Facebook IV. Nerviger Wecker V. Nacht-Klingelton VI. Warteschleife, wenn am arbeiten... VII. Wenn die Arbeit anruft |
|
Écart (2017)
together with Noah Zeldin Ein Stück für und mit dem Vinylograph for theremin, hammered dulcimer, guitar, glockenspiel, saxophone and turntable Analoger Charme entsteht dort wo Unebenheiten oder Abweichungen, bewusst oder zufällig, einen ganz besonderen Reiz und Farbe aufkommen lassen. Wer versucht Schallplatten zuhause mit exakt auf den Kammerton gestimmten Instrumenten zu begleiten, wird unter Umständen bemerken, dass sich da manchmal ein intervallischer Spalt auftut, der von kleinen mikrotonalen Schwebungen bis zu einem Halbton oder mehr anwachsen kann. Abseits der bei der Aufnahme genutzten Stimmungen, hat dies vor allem damit zu tun, dass die Abspiel und auch Aufnahmegeschwindigkeiten, teils sogar bewusst, leichten Schwankungen unterliegen. Für das normale Hören spielt das kaum eine Rolle. Für mein Stück jedoch sollen diese kleinst-Differenzen die Hauptsache werden. Mit einem Instrumentarium (diverse Saiteninstrumente, Metallophone, Saxophon) das teils mikrotonal ineinander und gegeneinander verstimmt ist, sowie mit einem außerhalb aller Stimmungen klingendem Theremin, wird die auf den im Raum vorhanden Plattenspielern ausgetestete Differenz zum musikalischen Material des Stücks. Dabei werden auch Platten selbst als Schallerzeuger zum Einsatz kommen. Mit der Live-Aufnahme des Stückes durch den Vinylograph erlebt das Stück ein weitere Verschiebungen, die die Differenzen zu den ebenfalls abgespielten Referenztönen auf den Plattenspielern wieder gegen Null schwingen lassen. Zwei Seiten hat ja eine Platte, dabei wird auf der A-Seite alles (schnell) um den Ton a kreisen, auf der B-Seite (langsam) um den Ton b. five unique singles haven been made that day. Cover artwork by Nieuw NDG. http://nataschamuhic.at/albums/vinylograph https://www.facebook.com/transformermusic/ |
|
|
5 Charaktere (2009/2016)
for piano solo I. Per il tempo dopo il volo delle ceneri II. Les Adieux, mit Debussy III. Unsinkbar, Andrea Doria IV. 2 Variationen auf eine venezianische Reihe V. Still recruiting hopeless teens |
|
|
Grisaille (Intrada) (2016)
music for a picture Intrada/Overture to be played next to Hieronymus Bosch' "The Last Judgment" tryptich For hammered dulcimer, theremin, viola, saxophone Performed as part of "Excuse my dust III". A concert organized by Verein akut in cooperation with Wien Modern and Modeschule Herbststrasse) based on Hieronymus Bosch' "The Last Judgment". Listening example is an excerpt of the 1,5h piece. Performed while the audience was wandering through the gallery. Photo: Dina Lucia Weiss |
|
|
Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage / Der Fuhrmann des Todes) (2016)
A silent film in concert. Victor Sjöström, 1921 For violin, recorders, paetzold flutes, alt-saxophone, tenor-saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass, theremin, hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel See: UNSAFE + SOUNDS Festival |
photo @ unsafe+sounds festival.
Philippe Gerlach
|
|
Paris qui dort (2016)
A silent film in concert. Rene Clair, 1925 For electric guitar, theremin, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer and loop station |
|
|
Scarecrow (2016)
A silent film in concert. Buster Keaton, 1921. For piano, theremin, hammered dulcimer and wood blocks |
|
|
Quasi parlando (2016)
Based on texts by Lukrez and Leoš Janáček For theremin, flute, saxophone, violin and voice Kann man Musik verstehen? Verstehen, so wie wir Zeichen, Wörter, Mimik verstehen? Kann Musik Bedeutung transportieren, sie gar aus sich heraus entwickeln? Die Musikphilosophie denkt seit der Antike über die Verbindung und Wechselwirkung von Musik und Wort nach, sucht nach Grammatiken, nach dem "richtigen" Ausdruck, nach Verständnis, angetrieben noch durch das Aufkommen der Oper. Nichts anderes macht dieses Stück, es denkt "laut" über Musik und Wort nach. |
|
|
untitled music for an installation of Olafur Eliasson (2015)
For guitar, theremin and loop station to be played next to/inside a water dripping / stroboscopic light installation of Olafur Eliasson. |
|
|
Космический рейс (Kosmicheskiy Reys / Cosmic Voyage) (2015)
A silent film in concert. Vasili Zhuravlov, 1935 For electric guitar, theremin, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer and loop station |
|
Den Flyvende Cirkus (2015)
A silent film in concert. Alfred Lind, 1912 For piano, electric guitar, theremin, percussion and loop station "Quite a nice little tale of adventure from the golden early days of Danish silent cinema. With a fire, a great deal of jealousy, and some perilous situations and last-minute escapes. Not to mention the enchanting, cigar-smoking snake charmer Ula Kira-Maja (Lili Bech). And the musical score, newly composed by Cornelius Berkowitz, lends the drama still more intensity." |
|
|
La Selva (2015)
Music for the film inside/outside (2015) by Sophie Lembke For electric guitar, theremin and percussion |
|
|
Music for M. (2015) (with Noah Zeldin)
Based on a play by Heiner Müller For saxophone, theremin, hammered dulcimer and effects |
|
|
Vampyr (2014)
A semi-silent film in concert. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932 For piano, electric guitar, theremin, percussion, glockenspiel and loop station "Für die tranceartigen Erlebnisse des Studenten Allan Grey, die ihm in dem französischen Dorf Courtempierre widerfahren, hat Cornelius Berkowitz ein neue, erzählerische Musik geschrieben. In einem Ein-Mann-Ensemble zu einem dichten Netz aus Motiven und Referenzen vereint, ringen Klavier, Gitarre, Theremin, Glockenspiel und Percussion dem Film neue Facetten ab. Fast so als würden Schostakowitsch und Siouxsie Sioux Hitchcocks Filme nachvertonen." |
|
|
Lichtspielmusik (2015)
music from 5 scenes of the Vampyr soundtrack combined to a suite. released on the Crossovers compilation by V/A in 2015 |
|
|
Makeover (2014)
Concert installation for a video object by hoelb/hoeb For electric guitar, tuning fork, theremin and loop station Exhibition Es geht voran, Feldbach, Styria |
|
|
Wandering Tribe (2012) (by my alter ego)
Music for a performance/fashion show by Christina Dörfler (Christina Raab) For Paetzold flute, recorder, percussion, cello, trumpet and fluegelhorn Spatial composition Choreography by Bettina Foeldesi |
|
Nagelschritt voraus (2011) (by my alter ego)
music for a text For string trio and three voices Text by Maria Hofer |
Drei Sonette treffen auf Prosatexte und ein Streichtrio und bewegen sich dabei zwischen Genres wie Hörspiel, Kammerminiaturoper, Monodram, Lesung und Rezitativ. Es bedient sich dabei alten Formen und Ideen aus dem neueren Musiktheater. Die Musik steht zu den Texten in einer gespalteten Beziehung. Sie ist Kommentar, Kontrahentin, Zwischenruferin, Pflegerin und Erbschleicherin, sie führt einen motivisch-thematisch komponierten Dialog mit dem Text. Die Bühnenhandlung ist miniaturisiert und zieht sich in die Sprache selbst zurück.
|
|
Tape Sonata (2011) (by my alter ego)
For five performer with tapedecks and a conductor Fragments of 25 songs, recorded on tapes, are re-aranged to a 20 min tape sonate in 4 movements. Played live by 5 musicians with tape decks. Play/rewind/forward/pause. |
|
|
Carré. Texturtanz (2008) (by my alter ego)
Music for a performance by Christina Dörfler (Christina Raab) For violin, flute, two dancers and costumes Choreography by Bettina Foeldesi Costumes by Christina Dörfler (Christina Raab) |
Photo: Christina Raab
|
