news & agenda
There is an open access version of my book Between Air and Electricity, with a downloadable pdf of the whole book. My current research is on gestures, sensors and sounds. If you think your work might interest me, do not hesitate to send me some information at cathy-at-cathyvaneck-dot-net.
Here some dates for performances and exhibitions of my work:
2024
12.11.2024 Tilburg (Netherlands) Together with students of the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts I perform Favourite Piece in Cardboard Boxes, April Sky and Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader at de Link.
10.11.2024 Den Bosch (Netherlands) Together with students of the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts I perform Favourite Piece in Cardboard Boxes and April Sky during November Music.
23.10.2024 Bratislava (Slowakia) I perform April Sky, Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader, In Paradisum and Song No. 3
05.10.2024 Zurich (Switzerland) I create a new performance for the OTO Sound Museum at the outdoors area of Kaserneareal Zurich.
20.09.2024 Strasbourg (France) Asko|Schönberg & Ensemble Klang perform De staat der natuur during the musica festival.
07.09.2024 Grafenegg (Austria) Niklas Seidl performs Song No. 3 during the Grafenegg Festival.
01.09.2024 Cologne (Germany) I create a new interactive sound installation for this concert by Handwerk Ensemble.
13.07.2024 Alcobaça (Portugal) RePercussion performs Wings at Armazém das Artes.
12.07.2024 Coimbra (Portugal) RePercussion performs Wings at Teatro da Cerca de S. Bernardo.
10.07.2024 Rome (Italy) I perform April Sky, Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader, In Paradisum and Song No. 3 during the Arte e Scienza Festival.
08.07.2024 Sassari (Italy) I perform April Sky, Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader, In Paradisum and Song No. 3.
31.05.2024 Lucerne (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs La nature dans le miroir at the Drei Linden Festival.
24.05.2024 Kiel (Germany) I perform April Sky at Frequenz Festival in Kiel.
12.05.2024 Bogotá (Colombia) José Camacho Cardozo, Jorge Monroy, Yerko Estevez and Guillermo Leonardini perform Wings at matik matik.
27., 28. & 30.04.2024, 01., 03., & 04.05.2024 Berlin (Germany) Opera Lab Berlin & Björnsson | Marx play In Paradisum and We Are Prepared in their music theatre piece ¡SILENCIO, POR FAVOR!
09.04.2024 Basel (Switzerland) Miguel Ángel García Martín performs my new piece In the Woods of Golden Resonances at Gare du Nord.
02. & 03.02.2024 Albany, NY (USA) I perform Music Stands and am a keynote speaker at Reembodied Sound – A festival and symposium of transducer-based music and sonic art.
20.02.2024 SWR Radio “Versuche, den Wind zu drehen” – Zeitgenössisches Komponieren als Protesthaltung by Egbert Hiller discusses some of my work.
23.01.2024 Bern (Switzerland) Katelyn King performs In Paradisum during the Playtime Festival at HKB Bern.
2023
30.11.2023 Salzburg (Austria) Names Ensemble performs Wings during the Limina Festival.
14.11.2023 Lucerne (Switzerland) Students of the HSLU perform Music Stands, We Are Prepared, De Beweging, and Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes.
03.11.2023 Middletown (USA) The Free Sound Collective (Emma Mistele,Parsa Ferdowsi, Emerson Jenisch, and Sam Boston) perform Wings at Allbritton Center.
28.10.2023 Sulz am Neckar (Germany) Benjamin Coyte performs Music Stands at Halle 16.
22.10.2023 Melbourne (Australia) Kaylie Melville performs Groene Ruis at McClelland.
20.10.2023 Geneva (Switzerland) I give a lecture entitled Faire entendre la fragilité d’un écosystème sonore and perform my new piece April Sky.
01.07.2023 Bern (Switzerland) Luz González and I perform Triple Beat (a special version of Double Beat) at the Dampfzentrale during Aether.
18.06.2023 Berlin (Germany) Maulwerker perform We Are Prepared.
27.05.2023 Montreal (Canada) An-Laurence Higgins and Sara Constant perform Music Stands.
12.05.2023 Lausanne (Switzerland) I perform Klangverordnung during Topophoniques 2023.
10.05.2023 Basel (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader in their Music for the very first time concert at Gare du Nord.
09.05.2023 Zurich (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader in their Music for the very first time concert at Walcheturm.
08.05.2023 Bern (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader in their Music for the very first time concert at PROGR Aula.
12.04.2023 The Hague (Netherlands) Danya Pilchen, Yannis Michos and I perform Wings at the Conservatoriumzaal in Amare during the Composing Spaces Festival.
24.02.2023 Den Bosch (Netherlands) I perform Empty Chairs and Kees Tazelaar’s Source Signals is also played during a Studio 4 Concert at Willem Twee Toonzaal.
09.02.2023 Melbourne (Australia) Kaylie Melville of Speak Percussion performs Groene Ruis at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
03.02.2023 Lucerne (Switzerland) Anja Jagodic, Rebecca Blau, Ana Pimentel Rodrigues, Ana Velinovska, Pablo Felez Moliner, and Emilio Guim perform Words, Words, Words. during the Szenenwechsel Festival.
23.01.2023 Bern (Switzerland) Lis Marti, Romane Bouffioux and Corentin Barro perform Backoffice during the Playtime Festival.
11. & 12.01.2023 Basel (Switzerland) Sinforosa Petralia performs Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader during the Clorindae program in Gannet.
2022
11.12.2022 Lucerne (Switzerland) Francesco Palmieri performs Music Stands at Theater Pavillon.
10.12.2022 Basel (Switzerland) Francesco Palmieri performs Music Stands at Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof.
08.12.2022 Zurich (Switzerland) Francesco Palmieri performs Music Stands at Kunstraum Walcheturm.
04.12.2022 Bern (Switzerland) Francesco Palmieri performs Music Stands at Pakt Raum 013.
01.12.2022 Biel (Switzerland) Francesco Palmieri performs Music Stands at La Voirie.
13.11.2022 Milano (Italy) Students of Davide Gagliardi perform Empty Chairs during the Milano Digital Week.
03.11.2022 Leeds (UK) I perform Song No. 3 and In Paradisum at Clothworkers Concert Hall of Leeds University.
22.10.2022 Overpelt (Belgium) I perform In Paradisum during the OORtreders festival.
15.10.2022 Dublin (Ireland) Jonathan Nangle and friends perform Wings at unit 44.
08.10.2022 Bludenz (Austria) Schallfeld Ensemble performs Wings at Bludenzer Tage zeitgemässer Musik.
02.10.2022 Tallin (Estland) Ensemble for New Music Tallinn performs Wings at HALL.
01.10. – 23.10.2022 Overpelt (Belgium) Try to Turn the Wind is part of the OORtreders exhibition.
24.09.2022 Madrid (Spain) FRAMES percussion perform Empty Chairs (version for three performers).
17. & 18.09.2022 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) United Instruments of Lucilin performs Empty Chairs at the 33,7 Festival.
17.09.2022 Bern (Switzerland) I perform Empty Chairs at the Grosse Konzertsaal, Papiermühlestrasse 13D.
07.09.2022 Lucerne (Switzerland) Corentin Marillier performs In Paradisum at KKL Luzern.
09.07.2022 Mondoñedo (Spain) Sinforosa Petralia performs Song No. 3 and Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader during the Mindo Musica festival.
01.07.2022 Rotterdam (Netherlands) I perform Empty Chairs during Longform Vision for Earminded People at Roodkapje.
30.06.&01.07.2022 Rotterdam (Netherlands) An installation version of Empty Chairs is on view during Longform Vision for Earminded People at Roodkapje.
29.06.2022 Tokyo (Japan) Gaku Yamada performs Song No. 3 at Kagoshima Community Center.
14.06.2022 Santiago de Compostela (Spain) Sinforosa Petralia performs Song No. 3 and Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader at Compostela Cultura.
26.06.-04.09.2022 Kassel (Germany) my new installation Da draussen for the St. Martinskirche in Kassel is on view.
11.06.2022 Zurich (Switzerland) Premiere of my new piece Words, words, words. for five performers, microphones and hand-held prepared loudspeakers, performed by CNZ.
28.05.2022 Zaandam (Netherlands) I perform Song No. 3 at het HEM during iii’s nomadic performance series No Patent Pending.
14.05.2022 Bern (Switzerland) ICE3 ensemble performs Wings at Progr.
13.05.2022 University of Sussex, Falmer (UK) I give a keynote during the Feedback Musicianship Network meeting, entitled Why feedback? Some thoughts on why and when I use acoustic feedback in performances and including a performance of Music Stands.
06.05.-26.09.2022 Zaandam (Netherlands) Try to Turn the Wind is on view at het HEM during the exhibition Chapter 5IVE.
05.05.2022 Ilanz (Switzerland) Mondrian Ensemble performs Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes at Cinema Sil Plaz.
04.05.2022 Zurich (Switzerland) Mondrian Ensemble performs Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes at Walcheturm.
03.05.2022 Basel (Switzerland) Mondrian Ensemble performs Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes at Gare du Nord.
26.04.2022 Zurich (Switzerland) Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes is performed and I perform In Paradisum during the Close Encounters concert at Walcheturm.
13.04.2022 Melbourne (Australia) Kaylie Melville of Speak Percussion performs Groene Ruis at the Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre.
01.04.-10.04.2022 Geneva (Switzerland) Try to Turn the Wind is on view during the Archipel Festival.
01.04.2022 Geneva (Switzerland) I perform Klangverordnung during the Archipel festival, in the streets around the festival centre.
25.03.-03.04.2022 Berlin (Germany) Breeze is part of the exhibition Ready Making #5 at Errant Sound.
17.03.2022 Madrid (Spain) Carlota Cáceres performs Song No. 3 at VANG.
05.03.2022 Graz (Austria) Schallfeld Ensemble performs Empty Chairs at Schaumbad, Freies Atelierhaus Graz.
15.02.2022 Columbia Missouri (USA) The switch~ ensemble performs Wings at Sheryl Crow Hall at the Sinquefield Music Center.
2021
19.11.2021 Rümlingen (Switzerland) My installation What we keep is on view during Nachklang in Rümlingen.
13.11.2021 Bern (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Empty Chairs at the Out of Space Festival.
15.10.2021 New York (USA) The switch~ ensemble performs Wings at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
13.10.2021 The Hague (Netherlands) I perform In Paradisum and Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader at the Sonology Concert in the Royal Conservatory.
08.10.2021 La Paz (Bolivia) Ensamble Inmediato Factura/Fractura performs Wings at Casa Grito, Sala/Teatro-Un Hogar para las Artes.
18.09.2021 Teufen (Switzerland) My installation What we keep is on view in Zeughaus Teufen during the Rümlingen Festival.
10. & 11.09.2021 Lisbon (Portugal) Touchez performs Wings at O’culto da Ajuda.
10.-12.09.2021 The Hague (Netherlands) My installation Try to Turn the Wind is on view as part of the Proximity Music exhibition during the rewire festival.
08.-19.09.2021 Birsfelden (Switzerland) My new installation Der Klang von Birsfelden is on view during the Zeit Räume Festival.
02.-12.09.2021 Schachen (bei Gais) (Switzerland) My new installation What we Keep is on view during the KlangMoorSchopfe festival.
29.08.2021 Asnières-sur-Oise (France) Ensemble Voix Nouvelles performs Wings at Royaumont.
01.07.2021 Gori (Georgia) Performance of my new piece Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes for five or more performers, cardboard boxes and live electronics at the Gori Theatre during the Close Encounters Festival.
29.06.2021 Tbilisi (Georgia) First performance of my piece Favourite Pieces in Cardboard Boxes for five or more performers, cardboard boxes and live electronics at the New Theatre during the Close Encounters Festival.
28.06.2021 Tbilisi (Georgia) I perform In Paradisum and Song No. 3 at the New Theatre during the Close Encounters Festival.
27.06.2021 Tbilisi (Georgia) I perform Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader at Lenø Records during the Close Encounters Festival.
10.06.2021 Tallinn (Estland) Ensemble for New Music Tallinn performs Wings at Scrapyard 2.0.
04. & 05.06.2021 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) United Instruments of Lucilin performs Empty Chairs (version for three performers) at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
28.05.2021 Basel (Switzerland) Zacarias Maia performs Groene Ruis at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger.
23.01.2021 Sevilla (Spain) Jorge Nicolás Manrique, Iker Idoate Santaolalla, and Rubén Orio perform Empty Chairs (version for three performers) ath the Rioja Filarmonía.
2020
26.11.2020 Zaragoza (Spain) Luis Azcona and friends perform Wings at Teatro de Las Esquinas.
20.11.2020 Logroño (Spain) FRAMES percussion perform Empty Chairs (version for three performers).
16.11.2020 Zaragoza (Spain) FRAMES percussion perform Empty Chairs (version for three performers) at the Auditorio of the Palacio de Congresos.
7.11.2020 Lucerne (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Empty Chairs, Corentin Marillier performs Song No 3 and Isabel Piniella performs Double Beat at Galerie KALI.
6.11.2020 Zurich (Switzerland) Container performs Wings at Walcheturm.
4.11.2020 Basel (Switzerland) Container performs Wings at Ackermannshof.
31.10 & 01.11.2020 Berlin (Germany) Maulwerker performer my new piece We Are Prepared at Ballhaus Ost.
27.10.2020 Austin (USA) line upon line percussion performs Groene Ruis at the the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
16.10.2020 Brussels (Belgium) Wim Pelgrims performs Groene Ruis at SMOG.
3., 4., 5. & 6.09.2020 Bern (Switzerland) Kollektiv Mycelium performs my new piece La Nature dans le Miroir.
CANCELLED 05.07.2020 St Petersburg (Russia) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Wings.
CANCELLED 27.06.2020 Rotterdam (Netherlands) I perform at the Gardena Festival.
26.06.2020 Basel (Switzerland) Zacarias Maia performs Groene Ruis at the Musikakademie.
CANCELLED 21., 23., 24., 29. & 30.05.2020 Munich (Switzerland) Concert installation M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder together with Schorsch Kamerun, Katja Eichbaum, Gloria Brillowska, Johannes Öllinger, Stephanie Müller and many others during the Münchener Biennale at the Marstall of the Residenztheater.
CANCELLED 31.03.2020 Geneva (Switzerland) I perform Klangverordnung at Festival Archipel.
CANCELLED 21.03.2020 New York (USA) Switch Ensemble performs Wings at DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
02.03.2020 New York (USA) I perform Empty Chairs at NYU University.
28. & 29.02.2020 Chicago (USA) I perform Empty Chairs and give a key note on composing with feedback at the Circulations Symposium in Chicago.
21.02.2020 Basel (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Wings at the Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof.
19.02.2020 Biel (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Wings at La Voirie.
18.02.2020 Zurich (Switzerland) Ensemble Lemniscate performs Wings at Kunsthaus Helferei.
08.02.2020 Trier (Germany) Heni Hyunjung Kim performs Song No 3 at Tufa.
01.02.2020 Berlin (Germany) convert performs Groene Ruis at Akademie der Künste.
25.01.2020 Basel (Switzerland) Reconvert performs Groene Ruis at Wurm.
24.01.2020 Zurich (Switzerland) Reconvert performs Groene Ruis at the Helferei.
21.01.2020 Luzern (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Wings at Neubad.
21.01.2020 Lausanne (Switzerland) HannaH Walter (of WeSpoke) performs Double Beat at Le Bourg.
2019
21.12.2019 Amposta (Spain) frames percussion performs Empty Chairs in a version for three performers at Centre d’Art Lo Pati.
07.12.2019 Novi Sad (Serbia) Hannah Walter of We spoke performs Double Beat at Studio M.
CANCELLED! 07.12.2019 Paris (France) I perform several pieces during the ‘Open Saturday’ series at Van Doesburg House, hosted by Machiel Spaan and Rozalie Hirs. This concert had to be cancelled due to the strikes in France.
01.12.2019 Deventer (Netherlands) I give a lecture on my book Between Air and Electricity during the Instruments Make Play exhibition in Kunstenlab.
29.11.2019 Barcelona (Spain) frames percussion performs Empty Chairs in a version for three performers at Arts Santa Mònica.
24.11.2019 Aarau (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Wings at Aula Neue Kanti Aarau.
23.11.2019 Laupen (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Wings at Aula Schule Aupen.
22.11.2019 Lucerne (Switzerland) SoundTrieb performs Wings at Winkel.
04.11.2019 Rochester, NY (USA) Wings is performed at the Eastman Audio Research Studio Concert.
03.11.2019 Vienna (Austria) Ensemble Schallfeld performs my piece Stumme Diener during Wien Modern.
03.11.2019 Den Bosch (Netherlands) I perform Empty Chairs and In Paradisum at November Music.
19.10. – 01.12.2019 Deventer (Netherlands) My installation Breeze is a part of the Instruments Make Play exhibition in Kunstenlab.
10.10.2019 Graz (Austria) Ensemble Schallfeld performs my piece Stumme Diener.
08.10.2019 Perth (Australia) GreyWing performs Song No 3 at the Sewing Room.
28. & 29.09.2019 Berlin (Germany) Together with DieOrdnungDerDinge I developed an interactive sound installation for their piece EchoChamberMusic, performed at the Volksbühne during the BAM! Festival.
27.09.2019 Winsen (Luhe, Germany) Frauke Aulbert performs Song No 3 at Zu Hören in Winsen, L’art pour l’art.
26.09.2019 Warsaw (Poland) At Warsaw Autumn Festival Paul Craenen and I perform his piece Tubes, and Michal Gorczynski, Paul and I perform my piece Wings. I also perform Hearing Sirens.
07.09.2019 Hannover (Germany) Frauke Aulbert performs Song No 3 at Festival Musik 21.
01.09.2019 Ghent (Belgium) I perform an outdoor piece and In Paradisum at Open Circuit 2019.
01.06.2019 Hamburg (Germany) Ensemble This Ensemble That performs Wings at Blurred Edges Festival at Künstlerhaus FAKTOR.
16.05.2019 Lucerne (Switzerland) Daniel Weissberg performs Music Stands as part of the program Schwebende Trübung at Neubad.
11.05.2019 Zurich (Switzerland) Daniel Weissberg performs Music Stands as part of the program Schwebende Trübung at Walcheturm.
06.05.2019 Bern (Switzerland) Daniel Weissberg performs Music Stands as part of the program Schwebende Trübung at the Aula in Progr.
06.05.2019 Valencia (Spain) Haize Lizarazu, Victor Barceló and Miguel Ángel García perform Wings at Festival Ensems.
04.05.2019 Biel (Switzerland) Daniel Weissberg performs Music Stands as part of the program Schwebende Trübung at Rennweg 28.
04.05.2019 Barcelona (Spain) Haize Lizarazu, Victor Barceló and Miguel Ángel García perform Wings at Festival Mixtur.
26.04.2019 Winsen Luhe (Germany) Astrid Schmeling performs Groene Ruis at a concert by L’art pour l’art.
25.04.2019 Darmstadt (Germany) handwerk performs De Beweging at the Akademie für Tonkunst during the Frühjahrstagung of the INMM.
04.04.2019 Ghent (Belgium) Nadar performs my piece Silver Breath as part of their program Tomorrow you may sing in paradise.
01.04.2019 Zurich (Switzerland) I perform Empty Chairs and a new piece at the Generator concert series at Mehrspur in Zurich.
14.03.2019 The Hague (Netherlands) I perform Empty Chairs during the Ephémère concert at Studio Loos.
23.03.2019 Zurich (Switzerland) I am doing a keynote at this year’s SAR conference on „Microphones, loudspeakers and gestures: fostering the dialogue“.
26.02.2019 Zürich (Switzerland) Miguel Angel Garcia Martin of Ensemble Lemniscate performs Song No 3 at the Helferei.
23.02.2019 Biel (Switzerland) Miguel Angel Garcia Martin of Ensemble Lemniscate performs Song No 3 at La Voirie.
22.02.2019 Liège (Belgium) Hanna Kölbel performs Double Beat at L’An Vert.
22.02.2019 Berne (Switzerland) Miguel Angel Garcia Martin of Ensemble Lemniscate performs Song No 3 at le CAP.
22., 23. & 24.02.2019 Berlin (Germany) Together with DieOrdnungDerDinge I developed an interactive sound installation for the piece EchoChamberMusic, performed at the Theaterdiscounter.
21.02.2019 Basel (Switzerland) Miguel Angel Garcia Martin of Ensemble Lemniscate performs Song No 3 at Druckereihalle.
01.02.2019 Basel (Switzerland) Daniel Weissberg performs Music Stands at Gare du Nord as part of the program Schwebende Trübung.
01.02.2019 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) Scenatet performs Wings at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.
12.01.2019 Basel (Switzerland) Mycelium Kollektiv performs Wings as a part of their evening PENDULUM at the Ackermannshof in Basel.
2018
08.12.2018 Bern (Switzerland) I perform Klangverordnung at flash! run and relay in Bern.
04.12.2018 London (UK) Hanna Kölbel performs Double Beat at Kammerklang in Cafe OTO.
28.11.2018 Leuven (Belgium) I perform Empty Chairs at Beyond Music: Laboratory for Sound Performances in STUK in Leuven.
22.11.2018 Glasgow (UK) Rebecca Pericleous and Gregor Forbes perform Groene Ruis at the Glasgow Experimental Music Series.
06.11.2018 Louisville (USA) Derek Carter, Joshua Baerwald, Rachael M. Smith and Lizzie Burmeister perform Wings.
02.11.2018 Zürich (Switzerland) Mycelium Kollektiv performs Wings as a part of their evening PENDULUM at the Aktionsraum in the ZHdK.
27. & 28.10.2018 Mallorca (Spain) Carlota Caceres performs Song No 3 at Can Monroig.
01.09.-07-10.2018 Dordrecht (Netherlands) My installation Erster Versuch den Wind zu drehen is on view during the exhibition Science of Sound at DordtYart.
25.09.2018 Hamburg (Germany) I give a talk about my work, organised by VAMH at the Centro Sociale.
22.09.2018 Bolzano (Italy) Ensemble Handwerk performs Wings during the Transart Festival.
22.09.2018 Quintanar de la Orden (Spain) Carlota Caceres performs Song No 3 at Fundación Amelia Moreno Espacio-Arte el Dorado.
20.09.2018 Geneva (Switzerland) Mycelium Kollektiv performs Wings as a part of their evening PENDULUM at Fonderie Kugler.
08.09.2018 Magdeburg (Germany) I perform Klangverordnung and my installation Breeze will be on view during the opening night of the festival Ambitus. Kunst und Musik heute.
07.09.2018 Bern (Switzerland) Mycelium Kollektiv performs Wings as a part of their evening PENDULUM during Musikfestival Bern.
28.08.2018 Evologia (Switzerland) I play the premiere of Empty Chairs, and Serge Vuille performs Himmels-Tür by Karlheinz Stockhausen during our concert at the festival les jardins musicaux.
23. & 24. 07.2018 Darmstadt (Germany) Music Stands Outside: a concert I developed together with Toon Callier of ensemble NADAR for the villa Wittmann.
20.07.2018 Darmstadt (Germany) The percussion studio by Christian Dierstein and Håkon Stene is performing De Beweging at the Edith Stein Schule.
12.06.2018 Zaragoza (Spain) Carlota Caceres performs Song No 3 at the music conservatory.
09.05.-24.06.2018 Opole (Poland) My Hearing Sirens are a part of the exhibition Canti Expositi at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
04.05.2018 Palma de Mallorca (Spain) Carlota Caceres performs Song No 3 during Ill Trobada de Percussio 2018.
03.-06.05.2018 Aarhus (Denmark) I am a guest curator of the sound art exhibition at this year’s SPOR Festival.
19.04.2018 Zurich (Switzerland) I perform during a concert of KARL ein KARL at Walcheturm.
11.04.2018 Zurich (Switzerland) Mycelium performs Wings as a part of their evening Sphärenmusik during Zeitfestival Zürich.
14.03.2018 Copenhagen (Denmark) Scenatet performs Wings at the Nikolaj Kunsthal.
12.03.2018 Zurich (Switzerland) Concert for the Werkjahr Komposition Zurich, together with Christian Buck and Christian Wolfarth.
10.03.2018 The Hague (Netherlands) Nadar performs my new piece Silver Breath during the Dag in de Branding at Korzo Theatre.
21.02.2018 Wijnegem (Belgium) Premiere of my new piece for NADAR. They perform their program Tomorrow you sing in paradise at Inspiratum.
8.02.2018 Basel (Switzerland) DieOrdnungDerDinge performs their staged concert programme “if you know what I mean”, including my piece 412 Meter Laufen at Gare du Nord.
31.01.2018 New York (USA) Viola Yip, Jenn Grossman and Merche Blasco perform Wings at JACK in Brooklyn during the exhibition and concert From Me to You and Back Again.
20.01.2018 Berlin (Germany) hand werk performs Wings at the Ultraschall Festival.
8.-11.01.2018 Budapest (Hungary) DieOrdnungDerDinge performs their staged concert programme “if you know what I mean”, including my piece 412 Meter Laufen at the Transparent Sound Festival, Trafó.
2017
17.12.2017 Cologne (Germany) Rie Watanabe performs Cheerers and Leaders in Cologne.
10.12.2017 Amsterdam (Netherlands) Rie Watanabe performs Cheerers and Leaders at De Ruimte.
25.11.2017 Cologne (Germany) Niklas Seidl performs Song No 3 at Kunststation St. Peter.
22.11.2017 Huddersfield (UK) We Spoke performs WingsW at theHuddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
14.11.2017 Stuttgart (Germany) The Neue Vocalsolisten perform my When the sound of your voice slips through my fingers at Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
13.11.2017 Basel (Switzerland) Ensemble Tzara performs my piece Backoffice at Gare du Nord.
02.-08.11.2017 Vancouver (Canada) My interactive sound installation Breeze is presented during the ISCM World New Music Days.
18.10.2017 Biel (Switzerland) We Spoke performs Wings.
05.10.2017 Den Haag (Netherlands) I perform Cheering for others makes you a leader at the Korzo Theatre during No Patent Pending.
01.10.2017 Berlin (Germany) The Neue Vocalsolisten perform my When the sound of your voice slips through my fingers during the Kontakte ’17 Festival in Berlin.
16.09.2017 Washington DC (USA) I perform Music Stands, Song No 3 and Cheering for Others Makes You a Leader at the Sonic Circuits Festival.
02.09.2017 Zürich (Switzerland) Ensemble Tzara performs my piece “Backoffice” at the Lange Nacht der Museen Zurich.
12. & 13.08.2017 Rümlingen (Switzerland) Premiere of De Bewegingfor demonstrators and loudspeakers at Festival Rümlingen.
24.06.2017 Berlin (Germany) DieOrdnungDerDinge performs their staged concert programme “if you know what I mean”, including my piece 412 Meter Laufen at Kontraklang, Heimathafen Neukölln.
17. & 18.06.2017 Aix en Provence (France) Phone Call to Hades at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Parc de la Torse, Aix-en-Provence. See 07.06.2017
14.06.2017 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) Phone Call to Hadesat Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Parc Edmund Klein. See 07.06.2017
10.06.2017 Biel/Bienne (Switzerland) Peculiar Transcriptions, at La Voirie. See 06.06.2017.
09.06.2017 Zurich (Switzerland) Peculiar Transcriptions, at Kunstraum Walcheturm. See 06.06.2017.
07.06.2017 Waterloo (Belgium) Phone Call to Hades at The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, developed together with Blanka Radoczy (director), Isabelle Kranabetter (dramaturgy) and Claudia Irro (costume design), performed by Sarah Théry, Julia Moorman and Guillaume Paire.
06.06.2017 Basel (Switzerland) Peculiar Transcriptions, concert curated by me for Ensemble Tzara, with music by Joanna Bailie, Iñigo Giner Miranda, Jannik Giger, James Saunders, and a miniature version of my installation Breeze at Gare du Nord.
10.05.2017 Lausanne (Switzerland) We Spoke performs Wings at Le Bourg
09.05.2017 Lucerne (Switzerland) We Spoke performs Wings at Kleintheater.
05.-07.05.2017 Witten (Germany) My new interactive sound installation Erster Versuch den Wind zu drehen for anemometer, fans, sound and breath or wind will be exhibited during the Witten Festival .
16.-18.03.2017 Aarau (Switzerland) final exhibition of the research project Mit Kopfhörern unterwegs at the Kunsthaus, with my “für Kopfhörende”.
19.02.2017 Bern (Switzerland) I perform “Cheering for others makes you a leader” and give a short lecture at the Sonohr Festival.
16.02.17 Ilanz (Switzerland) Cinema Sil Plaz Blue: concert curated by me, program see 03.02.17
09.02.17 Zürich (Switzerland) Uto-Kino Blue: concert curated by me, program see 03.02.17 and the official release of my book “Between air and electricity“!
08.02.17 Basel (Switzerland) Stadtkino Blue: concert curated by me, program see 03.02.17.
03.02.17 Bern (Switzerland) Lichtspiel Kino Blue: concert curated by me for Ensemble Tzara, with music by Jessie Marino, Sabrina Schröder, Ellen Fellmann and Wanja Aloe, and Blue by Derek Jarman.
27.01.2017 Graz (Austria) Schallfeld Ensemble performs Wings at the Grazer Kunstverein.
23.01.2017 Paris (France) soundinitiative performs Wings at the Espace des arts sans frontière.
2016
08.12.2016 Cologne (Germany) hand werk performs Wings during the TripClubbing night at the Kölner Philharmonie.
29. & 30.11.2016 Leiden (Netherlands) I perform “Für Kopfhörende — a performative installation, for performer with interactive headphones and audience with passive headphones” during the conference The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Arts in Public Urban Environments.
17.11.2016 Bilbao (Spain) DieOrdnungDerDinge performs their staged concert programme “if you know what I mean”, including my piece 412 Meter Laufen in the Guggenheim Museum.
12.11.2016 Zürich (Switzerland) see 10.11.2016 concert.
11.11.2016 Baden (Switzerland) see 10.11.2016 concert.
10.11. 2016 Zug (Switzerland) Concert curated by me for Ensemble Tzara, with music by Karen Power, Hanna Hartman, Øyvind Torvund, Susana Perrottet, Moritz Müllenbach and my own Groene Ruis.
05.11.2016 Essen (Germany) I premiere my new piece “Cheering for others makes you a leader” at the Now! Festival.
21. & 22.10.2016 Neerpelt (Belgium) I perform Song No 3 and Music Stands, and give a performance lecture on interdisciplinary art and public space during the Oortreders Festival.
23. & 24.09.2016 Aarau (Switzerland) new performance for interactive headphones, one performer, live electronics, and three headphone listeners.
31.05, 02, 04, 06, 07 & 08.06.2016 Munich (Germany) Premiere of “Phone Call to Hades” during the Musiktheater Biennale, developed together with Blanka Radoczy (director), Isabelle Kranabetter (dramaturgy) and Claudia Irro (costume design), performed by Elizabeth Marshall, Bavo Orroi and Andromahi Raptis.
12.&13.05.2016 Portland (USA) Sarah Tiedemann performs Groene Ruis at Third Angle New Music Concert’s Series.
07.05.2016 Jaffa/ Tel Aviv (Israel) Wings is performed by Hadas Pe’ery and others at HaTeiva center.
30.04.2016 Manchester (UK) Michael Baldwin, Louis D’Heudieres and David Pocknee perform a new version of Music Stands for three performers during Weisslich.
23.04.2016 London (UK) Michael Baldwin, Louis D’Heudieres and David Pocknee perform a new version of Music Stands for three performers during Weisslich.
13.03.2016 Zug (Switzerland) Lara Stanic performs my new piece Cheerers and Leaders at Theater Burgbachkeller Zug.
12.&13.03.2016 Zurich (Switzerland) DieOrdnungDerDinge performs 412 Meter Laufen at the Kammer of the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
05. & 06.02.2016 Zurich (Switzerland) Lara Stanic performs my new piece Cheerers and Leaders at Kunstraum Walcheturm Zürich.
04.02.2016 Bern (Switzerland) Lara Stanic performs my new piece Cheerers and Leaders at Aula PROGR Bern.
03.02.2016 Basel (Switzerland) Lara Stanic premieres my piece Cheerers and Leaders at Kaskadenkondensator Basel.
25.01.2016 Zurich (Switzerland) I perform Song No 3 at the ICST.
17.01.2016 Zurich (Switzerland) I perform Song No 3 and Music Stands during Art’s Birthday 2016 at Cabaret Voltaire. The event is diffused by Swiss Radio Espace 2 and Rete Due.
09.01.2016 New York (USA) Ensemble Pamplemousse performs Wings at Theatre JACK.
2015
14.11.2015 Liège (Belgium) Frederik Croene performs Pièce d’ameublement at the Théâtre de Liège during the festival Images Sonores.
07.11.2015 Zurich (Switzerland) Ensemble Tzara premieres my piece “Backoffice” at the Zurich stock market.
01. – 08.11.2015 Den Bosch (Netherlands) My interactive installation Breeze will be on view during the November Music Festival in the Kruithuis.
29.10.-01.11.2015 Magdeburg (Germany) Ute Wassermann performs my Song No 3 during the SinusTon Festival.
25.09.2015 London (United Kingdom) I perform Groene Ruis at the Cut and Splice Festival at Cafe Oto.
16./17.09.2015 Aarau (Switzerland) Try-out and presentation of a performance for headphones.
11.09.2015 Basel (Switzerland) I am one of the nominees for the Swiss Music Prize 2015, together with 14 fantastic musicians. The ceremony will be in the Basler Münster.
12.06.2015 Basel (Switzerland) Haize Lizarazu performs Pièce d’ameublement at the Musik-Akademie Basel.
11. & 12.06.2015 Berlin (Germany) Ute Wassermann performs my Song No 3 at the Ackerstadtpalast.
27.03.2015 Bern (Switzerland) I perform Double Beat and in blik at the “Raum durch Klang” International SoundArtSymposium 2015.
07.03.2015 Salzburg (Austria) Ute Wassermann performs my Song No 3 during the Salzburg Biennale.
22.02.-27.02.2015 Apeldoorn (Netherlands) I will teach as one of the senior composers at the Young Composers Meeting together with other seniors Martijn Padding, Richard Ayres, and Errollyn Wallen, vocal coach Gerda van Zelm and chaired by Louis Andriessen.
05.02.-08.02.2015 Stuttgart (Germany) my new sound installation Breeze can be visited during the Eclat Festival.
2014
26.-29.11.2014 The Hague (Netherlands) I perform Song No 3 during the 50 Years of Electroacoustic and Computer Music Education Meeting.
15.11.2014 Shanghai (China) I perform Music Stands, Song No 3 and Groene Ruis at the Chronus Art Centre.
14.11.2014 Zug (Switzerland) Lara Stanic, Cyrill Lim and Beat Unternährer perform Wings during 3Klangtage – Memoryspace.
06.11.2014 Stockholm (Sweden) Ute Wassermann performs my Song No 3 during the Sound of Stockholm Festival.
26.10. – 31.10.2014 The Hague (Netherlands) I teach a workshop on “Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments” at the Institute of Sonology and ArtScience interfaculty.
26.09.2014 St. Pölten (Austria) Barbara Lüneburg performs the first part of our collaborate composition for the “What-if” research project during the European Researchers’ Night. Composed together with David Stalling, Anthony Kelly and Barbara Lüneburg.
20.09.2014 Zürich (Switzerland) I perform Klangverordnungat Performance Reihe Neu Oerlikon.
16.08.2014 Schangnau (Switzerland) I perform Song No 3, Groene Ruis and Klangverordnung at the open air festival Zapperlot,
04.07.2014 Bern (Switzerland) Music on a long thin wire by Alvin Lucier, presented by me and Moritz Mühlenbach at the Lange Nacht der elektronischen Musik at the Dampfzentrale. Also playing: Hans-Joachim Roedelius (D), Felix Kubin (D), Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine (F), Pole (D).
19., 20. & 22.06.2014 Berlin (Germany) Premiere of a new piece for the ensemble DieOrdnungDerDinge.
22.05.2014 Cologne (Germany) I will perform Music Stands, Song No 3, Groene Ruis and Klangverordnung at the Academy for Media Arts Cologne.
26.04.2014 Brussels (Belgium) I will perform “Music Stands as well as lecture on my work during “Speaking of Mikes, Speakers and Acoustics, an evening of artist talks, performance and lecture by Cathy Eck and Fabrice Moinet” at the pianofabriek.
25. – 30.04.2014 Brussels (Belgium) Together with Fabrice Moinet I will conduct the lab Of Mikes and Speakers at the pianofabriek.
05.04.2014 Stuttgart (Germany) Ute Wassermann performs Song No 3 in the Theaterhaus.
5. & 6.03.2014 Stockholm (Sweden) I will perform at the opening night of Loitering with Intent and lecture the next day on my artistic research projects.
20.02.2014 Zurich (Switzerland) Mehrspur I will perform several of my works at the Generator concert series.
29.01.2014 Radio SRF 2 Feature by Cécile Olshausen on my works.
23.01.2014 Zurich (Switzerland) Performance of Music Stands at BINZ39
20.01.2014 Küsnacht (Switzerland) Performing several compositions by Alvin Lucier (Music on a Long Thin Wire, Vespers and Music for Cello and One or More Vessels) together with Moritz Müllenbach at Kantonsschule Küsnacht.
2013
17.12.2013 Leiden (Netherlands) Public defense of my dissertation: Between air and electricity—microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments.
16.12.2013 The Hague (Netherlands) Korzo theatre concert with several of my works: Song No 3, in blik, Music Stands, groene ruis and Klangverordnung.
19.11.2013 Huddersfield (England) Ute Wassermann will perform Song No 3 for gestures, interactive electronics, microphone and loudspeaker.
16.11.2013 Zurich (Switzerland) 7 pm I will perform Music on a long thin wire by Alvin Lucier at the Tonhalle Zurich during the Tage für Neue Musik.
13.11.2013 Basle (Switzerland) Gare du NordGinger ensemble performs Wings for acoustic feedback and shields.
25 & 26.10.2013 Muelheim (Germany) Presentation of mechanical and electronic ear extensions to listen to the city, which I developed together with Jan Schacher for the project Sonozones.
Labor Muelheim ZHdK
16.10.2013 Klosterneuburg (Austria) Ute Wassermann will perform Song No 3 for gestures, interactive electronics, microphone and loudspeaker.
Essl Museum
21.07.2013 Hilltown (Ireland) Uncage the colours, co-composition and performance with Barbara Lüneburg, David Stalling and Anthony Kelly
Hilltown Festival
05.07.2013 Freiburg (Germany) Heather Roche of ensemble hand werk performs Square Head for two small loudspeakers, gestures and fixed media.
hand werk
27.06.2013 Cologne (Germany) Heather Roche of Ensemble hand werk performs Square Head for two small loudspeakers, gestures and fixed media.
hand werk
26.04.2013 Zurich (Switzerland) performative installation in blik for tin cans and electronic sound in the visarte gallery sihlquai55.
sihlquai55
18.04.2013 Belgrade (Serbia) Ginger ensemble performs Wings for acoustic feedback and shields.
ginger ensemble
13.04.2013 Luzern (Switzerland) Ginger ensemble performs Wings for acoustic feedback and shields.
ginger ensemble
10.04.2013 Zurich (Switzerland) Ginger ensemble performs Wings for acoustic feedback and shields.
ginger ensemble
07.03.2013 Graz (Austria) I will perform Double Beat for one performer, two hearts beating and live electronics.
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