soil loop
2024
ecological research & sound installation
A sound installation for the Höxter Botanical Garden that uses acoustic signals from ground microphones to create an immersive and generative electronic soundscape.
Read Morepasos.resuenan
2024
collaborative material investigation, performance and installation
A joint inquiry about the creative process, culminating in a devised performance in January 2024.
Read MorePavilion (Excavation)
2021
collaborative performance project
Eight musicians become an archeological team on an excavation site, looking for traces of lost structures in the city.
Read Moreseven verses
2021
one or two trumpets (optional electronics)
An invitation for performers to explore the space and the dynamics of a performance situation. From seven verses and two performers, an infinite number of performance situations can arise.
Read Morepoint line plane
2020
for 18 musicians
Approaching musical notation like a painter would a canvas, growing abstract forms from a palette of dots and lines.
Read MoreThe future’s digital: the sci-fi technologies transforming the classical industry →
Chinese tech giant Huawei recently announced its latest smartphone had composed a completion of Franz Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony No. 8. But away from PR stunts, new technological developments are making a real impact on the way we interact with classical music. Published in Askonas Holt, The Green Room Magazine
Read MoreKarsten Witt Musik Management Magazine →
In 2019, Karsten Witt Musik Management celebrated its 15th anniversary. In celebration, it produced a special anniversary magazine featuring interviews with the company’s artists, directors and content from guest authors including Eleonore Bühning and Patrick Hahn. The English-language version, which I edited, is available to read online.
Read MoreDreams, spirits, but disappointing Bruckner from Ticciati and the DSO Berlin →
Now entering his second season as Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati is keen to show the breadth of his repertoire and the extent of the orchestra’s abilities. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MoreStockhausen marathon at the Musikfest Berlin →
Over 10 years after his death, Karlheinz Stockhausen still occupies a complex and difficult place in the canon of contemporary composers. This year's Musikfest Berlin featured a Stockhausen focus, of which the "creation ceremony" Inori was the climax. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MoreTi vedo, ti sento, mi perdo: Jürgen Flimm's farewell to the Staatsoper Berlin →
Jürgen Flimm bowed out of his role as Intendant of the Berlin State Opera with the German premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MoreParadise Regained: Schumann’s secular oratorio in Berlin →
Berliner Philharmoniker’s interpretation of Das Paradies und die Peri reaches for the heavens. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MorePersonal becomes political at MaerzMusik Berlin →
Aperghis’ migrants and a new arrangement of Janáček’s The Diary of One who Disappeared by Schöllhorn were well-handled treatments of their subject matter, yet burdened by an overwrought conceptual framework. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MoreRevelatory and uncompromising works at Ultraschall Festival →
Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s music was the starting point for this year’s Ultraschall Festival, marking what would have been his 100th birthday. Read more on Bachtrack.
Read MoreTony Conrad: Completely in the Present →
By the time he died in 2016, Tony Conrad had accrued a mythic aura. A new documentary, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, shown at a special screening at the Volksbühne Berlin, is a rounded portrait of Conrad’s boundless creativity and experimental spirit. Published on The Cusp.
Read MoreUnexpected promise: Bryce Dessner at the Elbphilharmonie →
Launching a new “Reflektor” series of short festivals, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie invited Bryce Dessner to curate two days of concerts. Published on Bachtrack.
Read More“To infinity and beyond!” Cosmic Mondparsifal in Berlin →
After Jonathan Meese's Parsifal staging was rejected by Bayreuth, he channelled his frustrations into an "arch-Parsifal" which shoots the titular hero into space, with a musical re-imagining of Wagner’s score by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang. Published on Bachtrack.
Read MoreDeath lurks: Aribert Reimann's L'Invisible at Deutsche Oper Berlin →
In L’Invisible, which had its première last weekend at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aribert Reimann has condensed three plays by Maeterlinck into bite-size chunks that vanish before they can be savoured. Published on Bachtrack.
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