Berliner Ensemble and Ersan Mondtag commissioned four ouvertures for "wagner - der ring des nibelungen (a piece like fresh chopped eschenwood)" recomposed by Thomas Köck - with no audible Wagner involved. Premiere on june 3rd 2021. 

I wrote music for a stellar 12 piece ensemble of classical musicians and improvisers. 

The compositions decontextualize tiny bits of the original Wagner ouvertures. A motive, a tempo, a piece of noise from an original recording... sometimes in the process I just played drums to the original ouvertures and used these drum recordings as a starting point for writing.

The pieces will be released as an album on backlash music on march 4th.

Moritz Ter-Nedden – violin
Grégoire Simon – violin 
Friedemann Slenczka – viola 
Ragnar Jonsson – violoncello 
James Banner - double bass
Laure Mourot - flute
Miguel Perez Inesta - clarinet 
Isaac Shaw – french horn 
Maria Schneider – vibraphone
Arne Braun – guitar 
Jörg Hochapfel - keyboard, piano 
Max Andrzejewski - composition, drumset

MYTHOS II - aüe

From my new one out next week! (July 29).

dawn, always new, often superb, inaugurates the return of the everyday

overlooking the gardens, rhythms blur - from Dawn, always new, often superb...

Diogo - Muler Layal

Magma

From the album "Stor, fet og fri" with LuckyLoop

Cirrus - LuckyLoop

A composition for the relaunch of the SilenceRadio.org website on May 1, 2010.

Singer: Almut Kühne

In March 2010 the Belgian internet radio SilenceRadio.org asked me to compose a piece for the relaunch of their website. At that time I was interested in how sounds could be mirrored in other sounds and how the meaning of sounds shifts depending on context. The title of the piece – “A Pot Calling The Kettle Black” – is an old English phrase already found in works by Cervantes and Shakespeare that is still used today to refer to hypocrisy. The idiom can be interpreted as follows: A pot is sooty from being placed on an open fire, while a kettle, being placed on coals, remains clean and shiny. The pot only sees its own sooty reflection in the shiny surface of the kettle and accuses it of being black, a property that only belongs to the pot itself. In this composition, sounds refer to and reflect each other in a similar manner. The action is transposed from a medieval fireplace to a contemporary household, and many sounds deal with activities set in a kitchen: frying eggs, drinking mineral water, making a cup of tea or cleaning the dishes. Sounds of water and fire, of heating and burning, of immersion and draining appear in many variations. The sounds are orchestrated by a woman who is inspired to vocal experiments by her daily routines. The kitchen noises turn into abstract sound worlds which may arise from her imagination and memory – but perhaps they are just sounds that have been released from their chemical bond with a specific meaning and which, when heated, recombine to form new molecular structures.

A Pot Calling The Kettle Black!

electronics and bells. 
from Song of Extinction (2016)

The Calf (from Song of Extinction)

EA#activ2

performed by Crash Ensemble, and recorded for their album 'Crashlands'.

Vultures (for strings and percussion)

A collaboration sound project between composers and performers Frederik Croene (DSP and electronics) and Esther Venrooy (Piano and electronics). A very experimental and also an atmospheric album.

Truncate Retrograde

Taken from the album Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations released as 2LP and Digital

Fantas Variations

Bendik Giske 'Fantas for Saxophone and Voice' (EMEGO 279)

Composer, sound artist, field recordist. Soundtracks, radio play and podcast music, radioart.

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