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 (2021)

a short glimpse into some things that I composed

Composition

Actual Mix of my works as a drummer/composer.

Max Andrzejewski - different works

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

SIDE A of the album "3 Seconds" by TRAINING and John Dieterich
Released on Fun in the Church in November 2021

Johannes Schleiermacher - sax, flute, Buchla Music Easel, composition
Max Andrzejewski - drums, voice, composition, synth
John Dieterich - guitar, piano, voice, composition, mix, master

»Go outside. Stay inside. Look at the closest thing to you. A random, banal event. Ants being busy, grasses being automatically taken care of and electric divinations of every second object-machine companion on your desk. What you see is not what you see. Neither is what you see what you hear. Coming together of multiplicity of multiple affairs. What we hear is the heated-up bodies of uncountable ants crawling on what we call the earth – a composition and decomposition of countless microscopic movements? Or we hear the touch of the wind and the leaves of an ancient tree who has seen and smelled who knows what?« (Işıl Karataş)

Corona-Winter 2020. The great TRAINING are to play a concert at Jazzfest-Berlin together with John Dieterich from Deerhoof. Based on field recordings that they have previously recorded and processed into loops. 3 Seconds Loops. Three seconds. But the concert could not take place as planned due to Corona. John Dieterich was not allowed to travel from the USA to Berlin. The festival could not take place with a live audience anyway.
But an extraordinary performance took place. John sent more audio tracks to Berlin, and TRAINING processed them live in the streaming concert. It resulted in one of the most gripping, intense streaming gigs of last year.
From the described live sessions, but also from the teaser tracks released in advance by Jazzfest Berlin, an album has now been created! The accompanying video work is by Işıl Karataş - she accompanied the whole project with her visual worlds.

We would like to sincerely thank Jazzfest Berlin and rbbKultur for their co-operation, which made this fantastic, space-, time- and pandemic-spanning project possible in the first place. And Goethe Institute for their support.

TRAINING & John Dieterich - "3 Seconds" Side A

1st single of the new Hütte album - coming in September 2023 on Fun in the Church.

Fließen

This is an audio teaser from the premiere of my 40" composition "OHNE GARANTIE - music for a future without guarantees", based on texts by Zola Mennenöh with thoughts about how to cope with the uncertainty of future, inspired by Lisa Nyberg.  

Probably the most silent music I´ve ever written.

A commission by Acht Brücken Festival Köln. 
Recorded at WDR Funkhaus on may 1st 2023 and broadcasted by WDR3 

Zola Mennenöh (voc, text)
Lisa Meignin (fl)
Jone Bolivar (cl)
Laura Hovestadt (Vla)
Ruben Jeyasundaram (vcl)
Max Andrzejewski (perc., comp.)

Picture by Jörn Neumann.

"OHNE GARANTIE - music for a future without guarantees" - Live TEASER - WDR3 Broadcast

MYTHOS IV

MYTHOS III

My album SUMMEN was released via SN Variations in February 2025. Music for string quartet (Ensemble Resonanz !) and improvised drum set (Max himself). A very personal piece, based on a fragment of a childhood composition by Max. Summen was originally commissioned by Beethovenfest Bonn. Accompanied by second piece Schwarm based on the image and function of swarms.

& Ensemble Resonanz: Das Summen Meiner Teile

& Ensemble Resonanz: Schwarm II

Elias Stemeseder & Andrzejewski light/tied
"deux" composed by Max Andrzejewski
Release on Whyplayjazz in may 2020

Biliana Voutchkova (violin), Lucy Railton (cello), Christian Weidner (alto saxophone), Joris Rühl (clarinet, bass clarinet), Elias Stemeseder (piano, synthesizers), Max Andrzejewski (drums)

Produktionsdetails
Produced by Max Andrzejewski and Elias Stemeseder for WhyPlayJazz. Recorded by Antonio Pulli at Studio Börne Berlin, February 18th - 20th, 2019. Edited by Max Andrzejewski, Elias Stemeseder and Martin Ruch. Mixed and mastered by Martin Ruch at Control Room Berlin. Additional mixing on quatre, héritage, tied light I, cinque and maß by Max Andrzejewski. Photos by Dovile Sermokas. Design by Michael Schultz. Supported by Musikfonds.

Elias Stemeseder & Max Andrzejewski light/tied - "deux" - Release may 2020 WhyPlayJazz

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.