Thomas Meadowcroft
Thomas Meadowcroft is an Australian freelance composer
and musician living in Berlin, where he has been based
since 1998. His music has been described as 'reaching an
inexpressible purity' (Le Monde), 'nerve torture'
(Süddeutsche Zeitung) and 'dreamy post-rock' (New York
Times). His work involves notated compositions for
acoustic instruments and electronics, electric organ in
experimental and pop-music contexts, sound installations,
as well as music for theatre and film. His notated work
is available through plainsound music edition.

contact: t dot meadowcroft at web dot de
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2013
31/08
RADIOPLAY/HÖRSPIEL (PREMIERE)
Song Buslines
Deutschland Radio
more info
31/05
COMPOSITION
Ezra Jack Plot
(chamber ensemble and video stills from The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats)
Either/Or Ensemble
Kitchen
New York USA
more info
07/05
PERFORMANCE
Steve Heather/Thomas Meadowcroft
Theater am Ring (Hinterbühne)
Villiingen-Schwenningen GERMANY
more info
16/03
COMPOSITION (PREMIERE)
Cradles
(percussion duo; here version with live Wurlitzer e-piano)
instrumentation: 2 pairs of finger cymbals, 3 shakers, plastic castanets,
castanets with handle, Japanese rotating toy drums, goats toe nails,
small shell chimes, medium shell chimes, cluster of small Korean bells,
Zill, four chromatic Chinese bells, two reel-to-reel tape machines, record
player, LP with Wurlitzer e-piano 200a soundtrack, cut audio tape

<< Cradles is a utopic lullaby, to help put treasured analogue musical
equipment to bed. The work takes its inspiration from the sensuous,
tactile relationship between a performer and his or her instrument.

The piece is dedicated to 'Speak Percussion' for whom it was written,
and to Julian Burnside, whose generous financial support made the
commissioning of the work possible.>>

first performance: Speak Percussion
Mäzmusik Festival
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Berlin GERMANY
more info
16/03
COMPOSITION
The Great Knot
Speak Percussion
Mäzmusik Festival
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Berlin GERMANY
more info
02/03
COMPOSITION (PREMIERE)
Medieval Baroque
(octet: four percussion players, flute, bass clarinet, violin, violoncello)

<< Medieval Baroque is a perverted concerto grosso for 'The Age
of Polymers". The piece was in part modelled on the gyres
of plastic found on our high seas. It is hoped one day, when the world
is rid of midi and video tapes, the work will no longer be possible to
perform.

A 'thunderstorm' also features in the work.This is in keeping with music's
baroque fascination for the seasons and changes in weather.>>

first performance: Alexandre Babel, Guy-Loup Boisneau, Thierry Debons,
Nicolas Didier, KNM Berlin
'Festival Batteries IV'
Theatre du Galpon
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
more info
02/03
COMPOSITION
The Great Knot
Speak Percussion
'Festival Batteries IV'
Theatre du Galpon
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
more info
02/03
COMPOSITION
Plain Moving Landfill
percussion: Alexandre Babel
'Festival Batteries IV'
Theatre du Galpon
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
more info
01/03
PERFORMANCE
revox & electronics solo
'Festival Batteries IV'
Theatre du Galpon
Geneva, SWITZERLAND
more info
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2012
20/12
PERFORMANCE
Tony Buck/Axel Dörner/Brendan Dougherty/Boris
Hauf/Magda Mayas/Douglas Welburn/Thomas
Meadowcroft
WABE
Berlin GERMANY
more info
15/12
PERFORMANCE
NU TRAINERS
(disco prog fitness music, in collaboration with Steve Heather)
Antje Oeklesund
Berlin GERMANY
more info
09/12
PERFORMANCE
organ solo (Organ Tower)
INSTITUT FÜR GLÜCKSFINDUNG
Import/Export
Munich GERMANY
more info
12,13, 25,26/10
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for TAXI - EIN TRIPTYCHON DER GEWALT
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Künstlerhaus
Nuremburg GERMANY
'150% Festival'
Thalia Theater
Hamburg GERMANY
Stadtsaal
Burghausen GERMANY
more info
04/10
PERFORMANCE
NEW TRAINURZ
(disco prog fitness music, in collaboration with Steve Heather)
Ausland
Berlin GERMANY
more info
RECORDING
Peacemaker Tattoo
(for orchestra and revox)
On 'Impulse: 24 Premieres'
(Philhamonische Orchester des Staattheaters Cottbus, Evan
Christ - conductor)
TELOS
29/09
PERFORMANCE
Roy Carroll/Steve Heather/Thomas Meadowcroft
Miss Hecker
Berlin GERMANY
more info
28/09
PERFORMANCE
NU TRANERS
(disco prog fitness music, in collaboration with Steve Heather)
Parkhaus Projects, Strassburger Strasse
Berlin GERMANY
more info
22/09
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for TAXI - EIN TRIPTYCHON DER GEWALT
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
'2. Hawler International Theater Festival'
Erbil Institute of Fine Arts
Erbil IRAQ
more info
14-16/09
PERFORMANCE
organ solo (Organ Tower)
INSTITUT FÜR GLÜCKSFINDUNG ('Resistors in Public Space')
pedestrian mall
Munich GERMANY
more info
08/09
PERFORMANCE
organ solo
'Rhythm Complication II'
Ausland
Berlin GERMANY
more info
25/08
PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATION
revox, processing and live recordings of interviews
with audience members
'Lange Nacht der Museen'
Jewish Museum
Berlin GERMANY
more info
26/07
BROADCAST
'Speak Percussion' Portrait Concert
Home Organs/Plain Moving Landfill/The Great Knot
(recording from 16 April 2011, Iwaki Auditorium ABC Centre Melbourne)
Deutschland Radio
more info
11,12/07
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for BUMM! - Der Ernstfall
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Arena Festival
Erlangen GERMANY
more info
23/06
THEATER
incidental music for Wunschkonzert
by Franz Xaver Kroetz
Münchner Kammerspiele
Munich GERMANY
more info
23/06
COMPOSITION
Plain Moving Landfill
percussion: Dave Shively (Either/Or Ensemble)
Issue Project Room
New York USA
more info
RECORDING
Monaro Study
(two clarinets, holden automobile recordings and sinetones)
On 'Skirl 016'
(Clarinets, Anthony Burr)
Christ - conductor)
SKIRL RECORDS
more info
RECORDING
TUB: long bow drawn
(with Steve Heather and Boris Hauf)
On 'Echtzeit Musik Berlin''
MIKROTON RECORDINGS
more info
ARTICLE
'An Afterword to Individuality'
In 'Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik Band 21', Schott Musik
ISBN 978-3-7957-0816-0
more info
20/06
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for WER IST DEIN WOLF?
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Schwere Reiter
Berlin GERMANY
more info
15/06
PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION
Weather Forecasting Opera
(version for narrator, violoncello and electronics)
in collaboration with Peter Sabat (video) and Mathis Mayr (violoncello)
violoncello: Mathis Mayr
voice, electronics: Thomas Meadowcroft
'SignalRaum'
MUG/EINSTEIN
Munich GERMANY
more info
09,10/06
COMPOSITION
The Great Knot
Speak Percussion
Phee Broadway Theatre
Castlemaine AUSTRALIA
Montsalvat Barn Gallery
Eltham AUSTRALIA
more info
02,03/06
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for BUMM! - Der Ernstfall
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
'Rodeo Festival'
Munich GERMANY
more info
31/05 & 01/06
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for Show
(dance by Philip Bergmann and Andrea Spreafico)
'Rodeo Festival'
Munich GERMANY
more info
17,18/05
PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION
Opera Abstract
Münchener Biennale
Schwere Reiter
Munich GERMANY
more info
17/05
DANCE
a song for Pulling Strings
by Eva Meyer-Keller
HAU 3
Berlin GERMANY
more info
04/05
PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION
Opera Abstract
(a musical action for one performer)

<< A three minute opera on a loop, about a future as untenable for the
performer's progeny as the performer attaining the financial support to
complete the work.>>

concept, text, music, staging, voice and revox: Thomas Meadowcroft
(with thanks to and help from Jil Bertermann, Michael Bischoff, Romeo
Grünfelder, Eva Meyer-Keller and Renato Romero)
first performance:
'Münchener Biennale'
Muffathalle
Munich GERMANY
WATCH
more info
20/04
COMPOSITION
Last Names For Nationstates
(version for pipe organ)
organ: Dave Broome
St. Peter's Church
619 Lexington Ave
New York USA
more info
28,29/02/12 &01/03
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for BUMM! - Der Ernstfall
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Muffathalle
Munich GERMANY
LISTEN
WATCH
19/01
PERFORMANCE
Tony Buck/BorisHauf/Steve Heather/Thomas
Meadowcroft
WABE
Berlin GERMANY
more info
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2011
28/11
PERFORMANCE
Birdcage Tombola
(pop songs for voice, keyboards, string quartet, guitar and percussion)
with: Sophia Baltatzi, Angelina Kartsaki, Johnny Chang, Nadia Kabalan,
Rico Repotente, Steve Heather
Valentin Stüberl
Berlin GERMANY
25,26/10
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for WER IST DEIN WOLF?
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Tafelhalle
Nuremberg GERMANY
more info
04,07/10 & 23/11
PERFORMANCE
Birdcage Tombola
(pop songs for voice, keyboards, guitar and percussion)
with: Rico Repotente, Steve Heather
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin GERMANY
'Movers & Shakers Festival'
Ausland
Berlin GERMANY
Miss Hecker
29,30/09
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for WER IST DEIN WOLF?
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Pumpenhaus
Münster GERMANY
more info
ARTICLE
'Berlin, Medieval Villages, and Music Communities'
In'Echtzeitmusik Berlin', Wolke Verlag
ISBN 978-3-6360000-82-5
more info
20/09
COMPOSITION
Perseverance Dam
(for bass clarinet, semi-acoustic guitar, accordion and electronics)
KNM Berlin
Kirche St. Elisabeth
Berlin GERMANY
more info
07-18/09
PERFORMANCE/AUDIO WALK
Lamento - Auf den Spuren von Dylan Thomas
(theater by David Heiligers, Pascale Martin and Jil Bertermann)
Schwere Reiter Gelaende
Munich GERMANY
LISTEN
WATCH
more info
17/09
COMPOSITION
The Great Knot
(percussion trio)
Speak Percussion
'TURA Music Festival'
State Theatre
Perth AUSTRALIA
more info
07/09
COMPOSITION
Monaro Study
(for two clarinets, holden automobile recordings and sinetones)
KNM Berlin
ZDF Hauptstadt Studios
Berlin GERMANY
more info
10/08
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for Show
(dance by Philip Bergmann and Andrea Spreafico)
'Tanzwerkstatt Europa'
Muffathalle
Munich GERMANY
FILM
incidental music for Prinzip Zufall
(short film by Romeo Grünfelder)
FELDERFILM GbR
more info
01/08
PERFORMANCE
Tony Buck/Steve Heather/Magda Mayas/Thomas
Meadowcroft
Miss Hecker
Berlin GERMANY
more info
20/06
COMPOSITION
Pretty Lightweight
Decibel Ensemble
PICA
Perth AUSTRALIA
more info
11,12/06
COMPOSITION
Peacemaker Tattoo
(for orchestra and revox)
first performance: Philhamonische Orchester des Staattheaters Cottbus,
Evan Christ - conductor
Staatstheater
Cottbus GERMANY
more info
08/06
PERFORMANCE
organ solo
'Nachhall (with Ensemble Mosaik and Claudia Doderer)
Kesselhaus
Berlin GERMANY
more info
08/06
COMPOSITION
Cars and Sunsets
Ensemble Mosaik
Kesselhaus
Berlin GERMANY
more info
25/05
COMPOSITION
Monaro Study, Sunken Bore
(portrait concert with pieces for clarinets and electronics)
KNM Berlin
Volkswagen AG Automobil Forumbr /> Berlin GERMANY
more info
13,14/05
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for BIST DU NOCH DA? - ein recherche
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Schwankhalle
Bremen GERMANY
more info
23/04
BROADCAST
'Speak Percussion' Portrait Concert
Home Organs/Plain Moving Landfill/The Great Knot
(recording from 16 April 2011, Iwaki Auditorium ABC Centre Melbourne)
ABC Classic FM
more info
16/04
COMPOSITION
'Speak Percussion' Portrait Concert
Home Organs/Plain Moving Landfill/The Great Knot
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre
Melbourne AUSTRALIA
more info
16/04
COMPOSITION
The Great Knot
(percussion trio)
instrumentation: various shakers, birdcall, various pitched wine glasses,
various pitched metal bowls, glockenspiel, suspended cymbal, 2 snare
drums, synthesizer, 2 tambourines, sleigh bells, shell chimes, 2 high-hat
stands, playback (stereo PA), table, various small found objects, 2 coffee
cans, 2 descant recorders, 2 alto recorders, ping-pong bat

<< The piece, The Great Knot is based on the migratory patterns of the
bird,'The Great Knot'. This species breeds in Siberia in the Summer but
heads to Australia and Southern Asia during the Northern Winter. (The
Great Knot is also sometimes vagrant in Europe, although whether this
is by accident or providence, one cannot be sure.) A distance that is
for us a longhaul flight, the bird makes its trip with only one stopover. The
Great Knot is now considered vulnerable as a species due to a combination
of factors, not only in part due to the reclamation of the birds'stopover
grounds between Siberia and the South Seas (namely, mud flats in South
Korea). Furthermore, given its strange 'international' status -- that is its
territory is not fixed to a specific nation state --
the bird is difficult to protect. In these ways, Great Knots
are birds without passports, so to speak, and are without anywhere to land.

The Great Knot attempts to approach the event horizon
of the species' extinction with a kind of perverted joy. It does this
if not to bring about some minor attention to these international
travellers, then at least to attempt to suspend the tragedy attached
with the demise of these birds by using their flight paths as a model
for music composition (namely "how to get from A to B".)

The piece is dedicated to 'Speak Percussion' for whom it was written.>>

first performance: Speak Percussion
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Centre
Muffathalle
Melbourne AUSTRALIA
LISTEN
20/03
COMPOSITION
Pretty Lightweight
Random Overtones
Jugglers Art Space
Brisbane AUSTRALIA
26/02
COMPOSITION
Perseverance Dam
Quiver
fortyfive downstairs
Melbourne AUSTRALIA
more info
19,22-26/02
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for WER IST DEIN WOLF?
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Schwere Reiter
Munich GERMANY
WATCH
more info
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2010
COMPOSITION
Monteverdi Karaoke
(voice and playback)
first performance: Cornelia Melián
Gasteig
Munich GERMANY
LISTEN
DEMONSTRATION
Megaphon Text
(multiple performers with megaphones)
Ensemble Zwischentoene
'I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND I'M SAYING IT'
Schlossplatz
Berlin GERMANY
ROCK OPERA
pop songs for SUPER!POWER!
(theater by SXS Enterprise, songs in collaboration with Steve Heather
and Boris Hauf)
HAU 2
Berlin GERMANY
more info
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for BIST DU NOCH DA? - ein recherche
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
Schwere Reiter
Munich GERMANY
LISTEN
more info
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2009
COMPOSITION
Greed and Shortage
(chamber ensemble and toy electronic keyboards)
finstrumentation: flute, clarinet in Bb, violin, viola, violoncello, pianoforte,
6 analogue/solid state toy electronic keyboards, 6 loudspeakers/monitors,
6 channel playback, power strips
first performance: Ensemble Mosaik
'Audio Poverty'
Haus der Kutluren der Welt (part 1)
'Open Sources'
Kesselhaus (part 1 and 2)
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
ARRANGEMENTS
string arrangements for Schall und Wahn
Tocotronic
Vertigo/Universal Music
more info
COMPOSITION
Sunken Bore
((contra-)bass clarinet(s), playback and feedback)
first performance:Hans Koch, Chris Heenan and Manfred Spitaler
Kleinen Wasserspeicher
Berlin GERMANY
PERFORMANCE
Birdcage Tombola
(pop songs for voice, keyboards, canned strings, string quartet, electronic
noodling etc.)

<<Birdcage Tombola began in 2009 as a solo, pop music
project for voice, keyboards, canned strings, and electronic noodling,
with separate speakers being used for each string part when playing
live to produce a rich spatialised sound of discounted, canned strings.

In recent times, Birdcage Tombola has had the pleasure and
privilege to be joined by the following quests: Sophia Baltatzi (vln),
Angelina Kartsaki (vln), Johnny Chang (vla), Augustin Maurs (vc),
Mikaele Pellegrino (guitar), Christopher Williams (bass), Marcello
Busato (drums), Rico Repotente (guitar), Steve Heather (drums,
shakers, handsonic).>>

LISTEN
PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION
Song Buslines
(voice, organ, steel guitar, string samples, field recordings, electronics etc.)

<< Song Buslines is an ongoing attempt to describe,
through sound, the routes of long haul bus trips on the Eastern seaboard
of Australia. Song Buslines takes its inspiration from the 'songlines'
of Indigenous Australians -- where song as oral tradition assists in navigation
of the land -- albeit here, truck stops and town names replace the
geographical markers of the natural world.>>

first performance: Thomas Meadowcroft
'Lange Musiknacht -- Hybird Arts Festival'
Radialsystem
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
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2008
FILM
incidental music for Birth of an Object
(short film by Romeo Grünfelder)
FELDERFILM GbR
more info
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for TAXI - EIN TRIPTYCHON DER GERWALT
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
PATHOS Transport Theater
Munich GERMANY
WATCH
INSTALLATION
Monaro Eden
(four-channel sound installation with six foot pedals (installed
dimensions variable))

<<Monaro Eden commemorates two great Australian cultural
icons: the Holden Monaro car and the work of visual artist Rosalie
Gascoigne, specifically her assemblage Monaro. The installation is (as is
the work of Holden and Gascoigne) also a response to the
landscape of the Monaro grasslands of Southern New South Wales.

The Holden Monaro was produced between 1969 and 1982
before being celebrated again with the new V2 series in 2001. It is this
model that is used for the installation's recordings which were made in
the field by placing microphones at various distances from the
Monaro's motor, both within and outside the car. For the installation,
the recordings were then cut up and rearranged in a similar
compositional manner and intent as the disused 'Schweppes' softdrink
boxes that make up Rosalie Gascoigne's Monaro assemblage. Sine
tones were also placed within these recordings at frequencies
sympathetic to the vibrations of the engine sounds. These sine tones
in turn create musical lines that pass through the assembled engine
sounds. The ordering of sine tones was done as if in the manner of a
sunday drive, that is there is no great logic to it: some key musical
destinations are dictated by the arrangement of engine sounds but
otherwise listeners are free to make their own ways through the
installation.

The function of Monaro Eden is to soften and find beauty in
sounds that are commonly associated with ugliness, specifically the
sounds of the internal combustion engine. (For lover of cars, in
particular lovers of the Holden Monaro, this is obviously not the case,
since they find beauty in these sounds already. The installation takes
its lead from this type of listening.) Furthermore, given that Monaro
Eden is a response to the Monaro grasslands, the work alludes to the
beauty of this landscape which is also not necessarily understood as
immediately beautiful, particularly from a passing car.

Monaro Eden is a utopic work. Despite the death caused by the
car¹s cumbersome, erratic and unfaithful technology, and without even
beginning to count the environmental costs of fossil fuel consumption,
road construction, and general waste created by car culture, there will
come a time when all that is left of the internal combustion engine
is the beauty and memory of its sound.>>

first install:
'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' 2008/9
Gallery of Modern Art
Queensland Art Gallery
Brisbane AUSTRALIA
LISTEN
more info
COMPOSITION
Monaro Study
(two clarinets, holden automobile recordings and sinetones)
first performance: Elision Ensemble
Iwaki Auditorium
ABC Centre
Melbourne AUSTRALIA
more info
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2007
COMPOSITION
Perseverance Dam
(bass clarinet, accordion, guitar and electronics)
first performance: Matthias Badczong, Christine Paté and Seth JoseI
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
COMPOSITION
Ezra Jack Plot
(chamber ensemble and video stills from The Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats)
instrumentation: alto flute, bass clarinet, electric piano and sampler, 2
violins, viola, percussion (egg shaker, ping pong bat, cutlery, wind-up
object, glockenspiel, snare drum, toy synthesizer) midi-triggered
images (footpedal),video projection, stereo PA (for samples and, when
required, ensemble amplification)

<< The video stills that accompany Ezra Jack Plot are taken
from the book The Snowy Day by American children's book author
and illustrator, Ezra Jack Keats. The stills for the composition appear
in the same narrative order as they appear in Keats¹ original work.
Nonetheless, the lengths of the stills are no longer at the speed at
which a child may read and view the book but move and stall
according to the accompanying musical structure. The musical
structure in turn is a way of making audible the block-like forms -- in
particular the juxtaposition of materials such as linoleum, cloth and
paint -- that figure so beautifully in Keats' illustrations. With this in mind
then what matters, particularly for adults, is not that the narrative of
the story remains intact but that blocks of childhood memory return.

Many thanks to Ekkehard Windrich and Peter Sabat for their
technical assistance in helping realise this project.

Artwork from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, copyright
1963, appears with the kind permission of the Ezra Jack Keats
Foundation.>>

The piece is in memory of Ezra Jack Keats.

first performance: KNM Berlin
'Metropolis'
Konzerthaus Berlin GERMANY
Carnegie Hall New York USA
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2006
PERFORMANCE
incidental music for JÄGER UND SAMMLER -
Ein Überlebensblues
(theater by HUNGER&SEIDE)
PATHOS Transport Theater
Munich GERMANY
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2005
COMPOSITION
Cello Piece (A Vanity Press)
(violoncello and playback)
first performance: Alex Waterman
Cal Arts
Valencia USA
LISTEN
COMPOSITION
Cars and Sunsets
(flute and playback)
first performance: Kirsten Reese
Konzerthaus
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
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2004
COMPOSITION
Acre Blocks (Würgatzel)
(flute, cor anglais, clarinet and tuba)
first performance: KNM Ganesha
Sankt-Annen-Kirche
Berlin-Zepernick GERMANY
COMPOSITION
Last Names for Nationstates
i) version for solid-state organ, playback and football commentary
ii) version for pipe organ, playback and football commentary
first performance: Thomas Meadowcroft
'Labor Sonor'
KuLe
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
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2003
COMPOSITION
Plain Moving Landfill
(percussion solo)
(maximum) instrumentation: 3 melodicas, 5 footpumps, tubing,
bass drum, fan, small multiple objects, snare drum, crotale, multiple
pitched metals, multiple playback devices, speaker array
first performance: Christian Dierstein
'Forum Neue Musik Luzern'
Lucerne SWITZERLAND
LISTEN
PERFORMANCE/COMPOSITION
Weather Forecasting Opera
i) version for short film, in collaboration with Peter Sabat
ii) version for video, stringed instrument, voice and playback,
in collaboration with Peter Sabat (video) and Mathis Mayr (violoncello)

<< The project, Weather Forecasting Opera -- with Homer's
The Odyssey as indirect subject -- is an opera within a weather
forecast. Whether Odysseus could return back to Ithaca was a
condition of good weather as fated by the Gods. Inasmuch as it is a
science of prediction, weather forecasting functions for the
contemporary subject in a similar manner. Via the ancient Homeric
text and the contemporary meteorological image, in Weather Forecasting
Opera the chances of accurately predicting the weather also functions as
fate.>>

first performance: Bavarian State Opera
'Festspiel Plus'
Munich GERMANY
PERFORMANCE
Alleinunterhaltung
(organ, leslie cabinet, loungeroom accessories)
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2001
COMPOSITION
Pretty Lightweight
(flute, viola, violoncello and laughter track)

<< In Pretty Lightweight, the music plays alongside a laughter track.
Although pre-recorded laughter is normally used to highlight jokes
on television shows and in novelty tunes, the joke/laugh,or
stimulus/response model has been largely avoided here in attempt to
get the music and the laughter track to cancel each other's 'weight' out.>>

first performance: Klangforum Wien
'European Month of Music'
Basel SWITZERLAND
LISTEN
COMPOSITION
Ground Manual
(chamber ensemble)
instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet in Eb, percussion (one player:
2 shoe boxes, 2 metal plates, 3 resonant objects of varying scale,
benchgrinder, mixer, 3 microphones, loudspeaker), violoncello, harmonium
first performance: ensemble recherche
Witten New Music Days
Witten GERMANY
LISTEN
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2000
COMPOSITION
Little Hans
(flute, oboe and Eb clarinet)

<< The boy, 'little Hans' was one of Sigmund Freud's case
studies. Hans wanted to become a horse. The work, Little Hans is a
refrain for this boy.>>

first performance: trio e-vent
Ballhuas Naunynstrasse
Berlin GERMANY
LISTEN
COMPOSITION
Home Organs
(percussion sextet)
instrumentation: 6 triangles, wineglass, brakedrum, 2 waldteufel, scrubbing
brush, 2 ratchets, 2 largecardboard boxes, 16 pitched bowls,sixen/metal
tubing, 3 cymbals, 6 snare dums, bass drum, cassette player, keyboard with
square wave, 2 cowbells, amplification, feedback
first performance: Les Percussions de Strasbourg
'Voix Nouvelles'
Abbaye de Royaumont FRANCE
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artists featured on recording exerpts: 
Alex Waterman (Cello Piece (A Vanity Press))
Cornelia Melián ((voice on) Monteverdi Karaoke)
Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra (Peacemaker Tattoo)
Ensemble Mosaik (Greed and Shortage)
ensemble recherche (Ground Manual)
Eugene Ughetti (Plain Moving Landfill)
Irene Rovan, Martin Clausen, Hannes Liebmann ((voices on)Lamento)
Kirsten Reese (Cars and Sunsets)
Klangforum Wien (Pretty Lightweight)
Les Percussions de Strasbourg(Home Organs)
Matthias Badczong, Christine PatéandSethJosel(Perseverance Dam)
Speak Percussion (The Great Knot)
Thomas Meadowcroft (Bus Songlines, BUMM!:- Der Ernstfall, Last Names for
Nationstates, WER IST DEIN WOLF?)
trio e-ven (Little Hans)

photos courtesy of:
Michael Bischoff (Institut für Glüsksfindung, BUMM!- Der Ernstfall,
set-up of WER IST DEIN WOLF?)
Clare Cooper (logo for Birdcage Tombola)
Romeo Grünfelder (still from Birth Of An Object)
Franz Kimmel (Opera Abstract)
Constantin Mirbach (Lamento)
Raphaele Mueller (revox solo, Geneva)
Sophie Reindl (zombie from Wer Ist Dein Wolf?)
Peter Sabat (stills from Weather Forecasting Opera)


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