Short bio
As a composer and performer, I have been deeply engaged with traditional, modern and postmodern ideas since 2009, weaving them into my work. I see technology, for example in the form of compositional algorithms or for the simulation of sound objects, as a form of 'thinking pencil' whose code I can adapt to my current needs at any time. The constant confrontation with current musical events is the stimulus for me to constantly rethink composing. Ideas and technologies are thus always in the service of the development of individual forms of expression for me, which should ultimately enable the performers and recipients to step out of the everyday and participate in an “absolute now” experience.
Professional Experience
Composition commissions
2022 NOW! Festival Essen (Nenia // Fl, Vln, Vcl, Pn)
2021 Karin Nakayama-Jeong (15in - 32out // Vln & Tape)
Musik 21 Festival (The Noise of Germany // concert installation)
2020 Duo Balzer-Wolf (Song from the Void // Song)
Ensemble ur.werk (BOB // Sextet)
Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Nds. // Mesosticha (version for ensemble)
2019 Ensemble CRUSH (Grümeln // sextet and live electronics)
Talking Trees project (I don't know what, I only know that // sound installation)
2018 Zeche Carl (three sound installations)
2016 Accordion Festival Hannover
Homo harmonikus // performance for accordion orchestra)
2016 BasisZwei Festival Hannover ((keres (-nyx) 1 1 2 1).talos // bcl, tape, robot drums)
Sound direction
2012 - 2020 Das Neue Ensemble, Ensemble S 201, Ensemble Schwerpunkt, Defunensemble
Ensemble Asamisimasa, Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Nomos Quartet, Ensemble S,
2014, '17, '18, ‘22 Musik21 Festival Lower Saxony
technical director, sound engineering, sound direction
Teaching
2022 improvisation course at mu:v summercamp by jeunesse musicale
since 2018 CRISPR.kollektiv (composition, improvisation)
2013 - 2020 North German Junior Academy (composition, chamber music)
2015 Workshop of Young Composers/ HMTM Hannover (composition, instrumentation)
2014- 2015 Musikschule Ostkreis Hannover e. V. (clarinet)
Ensemble activity
since 2019 Gruppe Moment
(Live-Elec, Coding, Clarinet, Lecturer for Improvisation)
Since 2018 CRISPR.kollektiv
(Live-Elec, composition, clarinet, project management, lecturer for improvisation and composition, curator)
since 2014 Orchester im Treppenhaus
(bass clarinettist, live-elec)
Guest engagements as perfomer // clarinettist // live-electronician
since 2010 Das Neue Ensemble, Ensemble ur.werk, KLANK, Asambura-Ensemble, Ensemble S 201,
Ensemble New Babylon, Ensemble Spinario, Arcana Festival Ensemble, Podium Festival Ensemble,
Ensemble CRUSH, Berghain Berlin, Nano3 Festival, NDR- Das Neue Werk, Klangbrückenfestival Hannover,
Grafenegg Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Mozartfest Würzburg, NextGeneration Karlsruhe,
Sprengelmuseum Hannover, Kunsthalle Emden, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Other
2016 - 2018 Technical assistance for the DeGeM webradio.
since 2012 tildeMusik e.V. - founding board member
Education
2021 International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt
The Minimoog Project (scholarship of the Kunststiftung NRW)
Teachings: Sebastian Berweck, Malin Bång, George E. Lewis, Cathy Milliken
2016 - 2021 Folkwang University of the Arts
Integrative composition (B. Mus.) with Günter Steinke and Michael Edwards
2013 Stockhausen courses Kürten
"Stimmung" with the Forum Neue Vokalmusik with Wolfgang Fromme.
(Scholarship of the Stockhausen Foundation)
2009 - 2014 HMTM Hannover
Artistic-pedagogical education clarinet with Guido Schäfer
Composition with Joachim Heintz
Languages
German, English, French (Basics), Portuguese (Basics)
Programming Languages
LISP, Scheme, CSound, Bash, Sonic Pi, LaTex,Python (Basics), Processing (Basics)
Software
Pure Data, Max/MSP, Slippery Chicken, Emacs, Atom, Praat, Sonic Visualiser, Ableton Live, Bitwig, Reaper, Audacity, Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve, Dorico, Musescore, Lilypond, Inkscape, GIMP, VQGAN (Basics), Microsoft and Open Office Tools.
Publications
2021 ÜberHören - Bachelor thesis
Discography
2020 Sniora - Zettelkasten (Bandcamp)
2016 Ensemble Reflexion K - on the edges (mode).
2015 Das Neue Ensemble - Birtwistle: Songs 1970-2006 (Naxos)
2009 Orchester im Treppenhaus - Totale Haptik (Bandcamp)
Filmography
2022 Zack! Boing! Arghh! Graphic Noise- Human Voice (Musik21 Festival 2022)
2018 Where have all the people gone? (eviMus Festival)
Scholarships and Prizes
2023 Schreyahn- Composition Scholarship
2022 Musikfonds- Scholarship
2022 Baldreit- composition Scholarship
2021 FEB Scholarship by Musikfonds e.V. (CRISPR.kollektiv)
2021 DOS Scholarship
2021 Los geht’s! NRW
2020 Los geht’s! NRW
2016 Composition Scholarship MWK Lower Saxony
Winner Composer Slam (2013, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)