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

'Sister' by Edmund Finnis (2013) Lucy Railton - Cello, Aisha Orazbayeva - Violin

gyres océaniques
'le 7ème continent'
talking trash

Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass, composition
Joris Rühl - clarinets
Joachim Badenhorst - clarinets
Eve Risser - piano
Philip Zoubek - piano
Julián Elvira - sub-contrabass & pronomos - flute

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by man" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant.

'le 7ème continent', gyres océaniques

THAT'S LIFE

Rhythm-a-Ning
c. T. Monk

Paul Santner - Guitar
Declan Forde - Piano
James Banner - Bass
Max Andrzejewski - Drums

Recorded live in Berlin November 2016

Rhythm-a-Ning

baloni belleke
Joachim Badenhorst-cl
Frantz Loriot-viola
PN-bass
clean feed records 2014
www.pascalniggenkemper.com/baloni.html

baloni belleke

Audio diary, 11/04/20
All sounds recorded at 51°28'18.9"N 0°02'09.2"W

11th April

Max Andrzejewski (*1986) is a drummer and composer, living in Berlin.

His energetic musical work between contemporary composition and improvised music brings him all over the world for concerts and composition commissions. 
The „maverick aesthete“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Max  Andrzejewski studied drums at KHM Cologne and JIB Berlin. His own band HÜTTE won one of the biggest German Jazz Prices - Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2013. 
He also plays in and writes music for the experimental Rock duo TRAINING and the chamber musical group „Stemeseder Andrzejewski light/tied“. 
Max played in bands with Julien Desprez (ABACAXI), the experimental Surf band Expressway Sketches, Charles Gayle, Kalle Kalima, and many others.

Max composes contemporary music - commission works include works for Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Beethovenfest Bonn, Podium Festival Esslingen, Acht Brücken Festival, Ensemble Resonanz, Kammermusikfestival Regensburg, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater a.o.
Max was on tour in Aserbaijan, Israel, Russia, Cuba, USA, Czech, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Egypt, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexiko and appears on numerous albums on Traumton, Act, Pirouet, Wizmar, Unit, Jazzhaus, NWog, Whyplayjazz.