wie ist die welt so stille

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Alphabet 87, a piece of mine for 11 virtual violins, written for Morton Feldman after his death in 1987.
Usually, it is performed in a complex spacial situation with many speakers, but I also imagine it to be a nice soundtrack for video or film, so if you have an idea, go ahead!

May 2012 Reinhard Karger 

Alphabet 87 (for Morton Feldman)

For Soprano solo and female choir

Text from "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" by Matthias Claudius and "Vollmond" by Else Lasker-Schüler

Performed by Traudl Schmaderer and vocEterna

leise schwimmt der mond durch mein blut

der weiße nebel wunderbar

ich kann deine lippen nicht finden

Reinhard Karger, composer and director

born 5-3-1953 in Tübingen (Germany)

Studies in composition, electronic music and theatre with
Erhard Karkoschka (Musikhochschule Stuttgart), 
Gottfried Michael Koenig(Instituut voor Sonologie Utrecht),
Morton Subotnick (California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles)
and Brian Ferneyhough (Musikhochschule Freiburg)

Main fields of activity: 
Compositions for chamber ensembles and all kinds of vocal settings,
multimedia concert and theatre projects in the field of language - voice - scenical display.


From 2005 to 2008 professor for contemporary music and music theatre at the University in Kassel (Germany),
since 2008 professor for composition with emphasis on new media at the
University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, from 2011 to 2013 head of the 
Institute of Composition and Electroacoustics. 


wie ist die welt so stille

Reinhard Karger

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