This is the third piece of my series band_linie_horizont, a series of works employing very concentrated and sort of reduced material while at the same time opening up the form in many meaningful ways. The piece is a solo for violin and tape(s), with an optional piano part. The piano part itself is very freely structured, as it provides only an assortment of material that the player can then, within some constraints, choose by herself. 

The piece was written as a commission for a concert in Alte Schmiede Vienna on January 24th, 2024, for the two wonderful performers, Eirini Krikoni, violin, and Kimiko Krutz, piano, as appearing under their joint moniker "Oxymoron Duet". 

Eirini Krikoni - violin 
Kimiko Krutz - piano | http://www.kimikokrutz.com/
find them on Facebook, too - they are great!
https://www.facebook.com/people/Oxymoron-Duet/100064872164451/

band linie horizont III: cartography of some early mornings (Oxymoron Duet)

Live at Morphine Raum - Berlin 
2024/03/10

Peter Cusack: field recordings
JD Zazie: field recordings

Peter Cusack / JD Zazie

antenne

This is the recording of the world-premiere of my piece "A black heart, the death of a friend and the end of a place (some lessons in falling apart)", which was composed for the US-American Empyrean Ensemble. It was performed on Oct. 13th, in the Recital Hall at the Ann E. Pitzer Center of U.C. Davis, California. The piece is in four movements and features, in each part, some approach to the notion of things falling apart, falling away, and how to deal with it, if possible at all. It employs the live instruments Oboe, Clarinet, Percussion, Violin and Cello, with all instruments except the Percussion also amplified, and four different tapes. They are also in spatialised form, but this is only partially audible on the stereo recording.

Musicians in this performance were
Kyle Bruckmann, Oboe
Peter Josheff, Clarinet
Ben Prima, Percussion
Terry Baune, Violin
Thalia Moore, Cello
Matilda E. Hofmann, Conductor

Stephen Bingen, Sound Engineer

A Black Heart, The Death Of A Friend And The End Of A Place (some lessons in falling apart)

Shelley Hirsch: voice & improvised text, Beat Keller: feedbacker electric guitar
Recorded on August 25, 2025 in Berlin, Germany

Bird framed

This is a live recording from March 5th, 2016. Jaime Wolfson, piano, dictaphones, radionoise, playing the full length version of the piece with additional layers and the noise foundation. Enjoy!

band linie horizont Ib

140518a Scd

Recorded on 2018/12/01 
at Multiversal #89
http://burpenterprisejournal.tumblr.com/post/179501661798/jealousy-party-and-jd-zazie-at-multiversal-89
Live based on recorded HD electromagnetic sounds and HD's corrupted audio files.

Shifting Marmolada// live excerpt

Mark
for flute, clarinet and harp (2019)
work-in-progress
Viitasaari Uusinta Ensemble
Malla Vivolin, flute
Helmi Malmgren, clarinet
Saara Olarte, harp
recording of the premiere on 07.07.2019 in Viitasaari, Finland

Mark

29/08/2020 // premiere at Firefly - http://www.firefly.berlin

Goldilocks Zone 
a piece based on mosquitos sounds and self made records on beewax

mosquitos sounds are taken from samples, field recordings by John Grzinich and Stijn Demeulenaere, recordings by Zywx and Forgo from the freesound soundarchive

JDZazie  - Goldilocks Zone

Mamak Khadem-Bisotoon

viola solo combined with natural and mechanical sounds

antenne

soloviola

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