Ideas, findings and inspirations about Charlotte Moorman. Excerpts from my research grant from the Deutsche Musikrat, March-June 2023. Known as the ‘topless cellist’ and the ‘Joan of Arc of New Music’, Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991) is a person (an image?!) on whom many fantasies and preconceived notions have been projected….
Every Dawn The First Man A -commentary on our lives in Stuttgart and Amman in times of COVID-19. Spring 2020, Amman (Jordan) / Stuttgart (Germany), we live at the pace of the Coronavirus. Deprived of our routines, familiar ways of living and working, we are stuck at home behind…
Summer 2014. One step back: 4 years ago and 100 years after the beginning of World War I. At this point, I am alone with my childhood memories and an idea: telling the story of OTTO, a WWI soldier creating beauty out of nothing in dark times: an instrument,…
‘ZUPFENSTREICH’ – ‘PLUCKING STRINGS’ a small concert for little listeners Since 2015 Franziska Schmitz and I have wanted to focus our work on pieces where listening is front and center. Growing together while experimenting, we became the duo Marie Muks. 2016 together with Julia Dina Heße and the Theater…
PUSS – PopUpStageStuttgart Do. 24 bis Sa.26.05 | 11:00, 17:30 & 19:30 Uhr Fluxus – Temporary Concept Mall Rotebühlplatz 20, 70173 Stuttgart Eintritt: 11 Uhr 5 € / 17:30 + 19:30 frei mehr unter: WWW.PUSS.ROCKS Mesdames et Messieurs, Franziska Schmitz, Martin Stortz, Joerg Hildenbrand und ich sind stolz…
From August 2 till 13 I’ll be staying in Kuching, Malaysia working with the Borneo Art Collective. Wendy Teo, BAC-curator, invited me to be part of the Borneo-Laboratory : a series of workshops and events going on in August 2017, involving artists from Borneo and abroad. This is an…
Hey-ho… neuer Job! Seit dem 17.01.2015 bin ich Beisitzende im Verein S-K-A-M und kümmere mich um das Erscheinungsbild zusammen mit dem Grafiker Nico Zupfer. Im Vorstand sitzen jede Menge kluge Köpfe: Nikola Lutz, Andrew Walsh, Martin Stortz, Christie Finn, Joseph Michaels, Richard Spaeth und Sophie Pope. Das „Stuttgarter Kollektiv…
The japanese artist Hanae Utamura chosed Fwol by Robert Phillips for her latest work CONSTRUCT: Emergence. This piece for cello and sampler was premiered and recorded by R. Phillips and myself in Berlin last september. Hanae Utamura about CONSTRUCT: Emergence: “The work exists in constant shift between painting, sculpture,…
A bit melodramatic, true. But these words come from Jaques Brel and that excuses a lot! After this crazy year, what could I wish you all more for 2015 than this: “…I wish that your dreams will never end and the furious desire to realize a few. I wish…
On a concert in which Robert Phillips and I premiered Fwol in Berlin on the 14th of September, we also premiered the timbre mapping application and sampler “app/territory”, developed by Robert M. Ochshorn. Robert Phillips and I had some recording sessions in Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart) this summer, collecting some…
