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