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Music

OPERa / MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Pferd Frisst Hut

musical based on Eugène Labiche’s Un chapeau de paille d’Italie — music: Herbert Grönemeyer / direction: Herbert Fritsch — co-production Theater Basel SWI and Komische Oper Berlin GER 2023

Von Einem, der auszog, weil er sich die Miete nicht mehr leisten konnte

opera/music theater from René Pollesch and Dirk Von Lowtzow– music: Dirk Von Lowtzow / direction: René Pollesch — production Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin GER 2015

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
The News in Music

instrumentation: 3.3.3.3. / 4.3.3.1 / Timp. / 3 perc. / harp / keys – strings – samples — duration 27′ / 2017

Peacemaker Tattoo

instrumentation: orchestra and Revox tape machine (3.3.3.3. / 4.3.3.1 / 3 perc. / strings – samples) — duration 4′ / 2011 (rev. 2016)

STUDIO

ORCHESTRA:

Forever Turnarounds

instrumentation: alto sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / alto sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / tenor sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / tenor sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / baritone sax (doubling bass clarinet) – 1.4.4.1 – drumset / aux perc. / bass / harp / piano / organ – strings ) — duration 13′ / 2022

Evening Continuo

instrumentation: alto sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / alto sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / tenor sax 1 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / tenor sax 2 (doubling cl in Bb and flute) / baritone sax (doubling bass clarinet) – 1.4.4.1 – drumset / aux perc. / bass / harp / piano / organ – strings ) — duration 9′ / 2022

VOICES & INSTRUMENTS:
Love Songs without a Subject

instrumentation: voice and six players — text: excerpt from Seminar XII by Jacques Lacan, with quotations from various love songs — duration 40′ / 2024 (rev. 2025)

Children over a Sea of Information / Die Kinder über dem Informationsmeer

instrumentation: children’s choir and string orchestra — text: anonymous social media comments — duration 25′ / 2019

Eremozoic Age Lovers

instrumentation: sixteeen voices / narrator / organ / electronics — text: excerpts from the writings of Edward O Wilson, combined with anonymous ‘sweet nothings’ — duration 17′ / 2014

MARCHING BAND:
March Static

instrumentation: variable (<eight melodic lines / <eight drum parts) — duration variable / 2018

RADIOPHONIC:
Talkback Burnback

instrumentation: child narrator / children’s choir / pedal steel guitar / synthesizer / CB radio and field recordings — duration 27′ / 2021

Moving Homes

instrumentation: narrator / child’s voice bass clarinet / violoncello / trombone / tuba / guitars / ukulele / midi instruments / field recordings — duration 40′ / 2016

Song Buslines

instrumentation: narrator / string quartet / guitar / pedal steel guitar / field recordings / electronics — duration 50′ / 2013

PERCUSSION & KEYBOARD:
Another Children’s Television

instrumentation: two keyboard players and two percussionists — duration 30′ / 2022

Forward Through Circles

instrumentation: two keyboard players and two percussionists — duration 30′ / 2022

Rolando Continuo

instrumentation: percussion solo — duration 8′ / 2021

Walkman Antiquarian

instrumentation: two keyboard players and two percussionists — duration 17′ / 2013

Cradles

instrumentation: percussion duo or percussion duo and electric piano — variable duration / 2013

The Great Knot

instrumentation: percussion trio — duration 17′ / 2011

Plain Moving Landfill

instrumentation: percussion solo — variable duration / 2003

Home Organs

instrumentation: percussion sextet — duration 14′ / 2000

CHAMBER MUSIC:
More Beautiful Discourse

instrumentation: violin / viola / violoncello / Hammond B3 and Leslie — duration 20′ / 2020

Medieval Rococo

instrumentation: chamber ensemble (5 players) and playback — duration 12′ / 2016

Monaro Study

instrumentation: two clarinets, sine tones and motor engine recordings — duration 15′ / 2008

PIANO:
All Possible Combinations

instrumentation: piano and ‘Solina string ensemble’ — duration 25′ / 2025

INSTALLATION / MultiMEDIA etc.
Discount Minimal

performance / installation: twelve percussionists / Revox tape machine / synthesizer and light installation — Duration 50′ / 2017

Monaro Eden

sound installation — 2008

Ezra Jack Plot

concert music for seven musicians with video stills from A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats — 2007