October 2011
1 post
Tschick auf NDR Info
Am 16. Oktober um 21:05 Uhr sendet NDR Info das Hörspiel Tschick nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Wolfgang Herrndorf. Das Buch ist die traurige und zugleich äußerst komische Geschichte von Maik, einem wohlstandsverwahrlosten Jugendlichen aus dem Berliner Bezirk Hellersdorf, der mit seinem russlanddeutschen Klassenkameraden Tschick in einem geklauten Lada zu einer abenteuerlichen Irrfahrt in...
August 2011
4 posts
Die Haarschublade
Heute um 18:00 Uhr auf SR2 KulturRadio: Die Haarschublade, Hörspiel nach Emmanuelle Pagano, mit Julia Hummer und Musik von mir. Das Hörspiel kann ab ca. 19:20 Uhr auch für eine Woche online in der SR-Mediathek gehört werden.
http://www.sr-online.de/sr2/552/
Orbital Mash at ART on AIR, hosted by Me... →
Landscapes and Soundscapes from Gardens of... →
(picture taken by Andrea Gjestvang in Greenland)
This week in Berlins Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Festival “Über Lebenskunst” takes place with a performance night called “…
Tweets about Sound →
(Picture taken in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, somewhere in the wilderness…)
I don’t really know what to do with Twitter. I mean, tweeting about personal trivialities is boring and the 140…
June 2011
3 posts
Dann sind wir Helden
“Dann sind wir Helden” am Montag, den 13.6.2011, um 23:05 Uhr auf WDR3. Das Hörspiel zeichnet ein intensives Porträt der Band “Die Helden”, deren kurze Karriere Ende der 70er Jahre zwischen jugendlicher Selbstüberschätzung, Dillettantismus und Rebellion im Desaster endet. Es sprechen neben Jonas Beck in der Hauptrolle Campino und Judith Holofernes. Download des...
Nächtelang über dem Fluss
Heute Abend um 21:33 Uhr auf Deutschlandradio Kultur: das Hörspiel “Nächtelang über dem Fluss” von Sylvia Kabus, Regie: Christine Nagel und Musik von mir. Den Titel-Track der Hörspielmusik kann man auch auf Soundcloud hören:
http://snd.sc/mP8XYb
Der Link zur Sendung:
http://bit.ly/j5QP91
May 2011
4 posts
The Sound of Nutrient Pollution →
The Dümmer See, a lake in Germany’s Lower Saxony close to where I was born, suffers from heavy nutrient pollution. During spring and summer, the lake is full of blue-green algae or…
Revolutionary or Critical Music? →
The New York Times has a new blog called The Score where American composers write about creating “classical” music in the 21st century. Yesterday, David T. Little asked if music should be…
Broken-hearted Cicadas and the Films of A.... →
The sound of cicadas can have a tranquilizing effect, the ebb and flow of their sharp high-pitched sounds can sometimes lull the listener into oblivion. According to Socrates, in his…
April 2011
6 posts
The So-Called Laws… →
Some of the tracks I’ve been listening to in the recent months, somehow a musical crossfade starting from Apparat’s “Ash/Black Veil” towards David Lang passing by some odd tracks on the way…
Watch
Do drummers have a different brain? Great article... →
March 2011
6 posts
Der Gebetomat
Der “Gebetomat” hält 300 Gebete in 65 Sprachen für religiös gesinnte Laufkunden bereit. Die Idee und Realisierung stammt von Oliver Sturm, die Musik der Einführungs-Sequenz nach dem Geldeinwerfen stammt von mir.
Artikel im Spiegel:
http://bit.ly/eZlve3
http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1107102.html
Die Macht der Warlords von Mogadischu
Heute Abend auf SWR2 um 22:05 Uhr: “Die Macht der Warlords von Mogadischu”, das ARD radiofeature von Bettina Rühl, Regie führte Martin Zylka und ich steuerte die Musik bei.
http://bit.ly/e9B89g
Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus der Musik:
http://snd.sc/gFUKu3
Weitere Sendungen in den nächsten Tagen:
26.03. / 09:05 Uhr / antenne saar
26.03. / 09:05 Uhr / SR 2 KulturRadio
26.03. / 13:05 Uhr...
Some Tracks on BandPage →
You can listen to some tracks on my BandPage on Facebook…
Latest Reviews of "Fire and Frost Pattern"...
… on Tokafi and on Aufabwegen (German)
Smart Orchestras and Stupid Technobeats →
An orchestra of historic domestic appliances can be witnessed in the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. The composer Michael Petermann said he worked 8 years on this installation called “…
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparow meet...
If you have seen the Facebook film, you have seen a sec of Peter Thiel, who provided Zuckerberg with the first half million to kickstart his company. But do you know that he, as an ultra-libertarian, dislikes democracy and thinks women’s suffrage was a bad mistake? Go see Peter Thiel in this highly interesting episode of the great arte-show “Durch die Nacht mit…” where his...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
For the German Crowd: some Pieces on the Radio...
Morgen Abend, am 13. Nov. um 23:05 Uhr, sendet hr2-kultur in der Artist’s Corner ein längeres Porträt über mich mit Ausschnitten vor allem aus “Fire and Frost Pattern” - mehr Infos dazu und auch ein Livestream sind hier zu finden:
http://bit.ly/9bjRgI Wer übrigens die Wiederholung von den “Fragmenten einer Sprache der Liebe” neulich aufBayern2 verpasst hat, kann...
Silence to top the Charts? →
“It’s worth a dime to get a few minutes of silence.” said Mike McCann to the Billboard magazine in 1959. He was distressed by the impossibility to hold a conversation over the sawing…
October 2010
2 posts
Best Hydrophone ever… →
Today I had the pleasure of meeting Timo from Sonar Surround at the SAE alumni convention in Berlin. He developed a new line of hydrophones that are based on the underwater technology…
The River, at Night
New track on Soundcloud: “The River, at Night”, for a forthcoming radioplay. Cello played by Cosima Gerhardt, Tuba by Robin Hayward.
September 2010
3 posts
On Trees and Sounds →
The english translation of my essay “On Trees and Sounds” is now available for download on my homepage. I wrote the text for the July/August 2010 issue of the German magazine “Neue Zeitschrift…
Balalaika and Hang Samples →
Some Updates on my homepage: I have put some free downloads up of Logic EXS Instruments that can be helpful in film music production. The latest sample set covers a Balalaika with two playing…
August 2010
6 posts
Nice idea...
20 videos in Bflat!
Point of Listening →
In an article for Eurozine, Les Back reflects on the importance of listening and takes writer Primo Levi, radioman Studs Terkel and literary traveller Flemming Røgilds as examples for their…
Mount Etna Cable Car →
With this track you can travel down Mount Etna, the highest active volcano in Europe, in the cable car called Funivia dell’Etna. It is now replacing the…
Through This Looking-Glass →
I like the music played by Joana Sá in this video for one particular reason: it fuses New Music, free improvisation and electronica sound manipulation techniques in a very captivating…
The Ear of Dionysius →
The Ear of Dionysius is a cave situated in the Parco Archeologico in Syracuse, Sicily. Its S-like inner shape resembles the human ear as the cave winds 65…
Incredible Recording of a Velvet Ant by Richard... →
July 2010
3 posts
Tom McCarthy, Writing, Technology and the Dead →
In last weeks Guardian, Tom MacCarthy promotes his upcoming novel “C” with a fascinating reflection on writing, technology and melancholia. By quoting literary critic Laurence Rickels, he…
The Wire, Dominik Graf and the Berlin School →
I recently came across Peter Jukes complaint from last year about UK television drama’s creative decline ”Why Britain can’t do The Wire” and it reads like a template for the current situation in…
June 2008
5 posts
iron tone
May 2008
76 posts
squeaking forest
