ANJA ERDMANN (DE)
MO LE FA SOL (2022)
acusmatico 5’23” – CRM | DEGEM

KARL FRIEDRICH GERBER
SensorsFor (2023)
acusmatico 5’55” – CRM | DEGEM

HANNA HARTMAN
Submarine Dreams (2014)
acusmatico 9’25” – CRM | DEGEM

HENRIK VON COLER
Chaos in the Garden (2023)
acusmatico 9’59” – CRM | DEGEM

ANJA ERDMANN
MO LE FA SOL (2022)

The work is a modular light/sound instrument for live improvisations and acoustic and visual design elements for room installations. Individual modules that produce sound sequences by means of prepared electromechanical objects can generate sound events. The Cooperativa Neue Musik and Artists Unlimited have invited the Weimar-based artist Anja Erdmann to perform a site-specific installation in the gallery spaces of their building. Anja Erdmann’s sound language is the varied use of her DIY sound objects. She also uses them as instruments for live improvisations. Supported by Musikfonds e. V. and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

KARL FRIEDRICH GERBER
SensorsFor (2023)

I see the gain from computer use in composing in the handling of complexity and the immediate feedback of sonic results and compositional results, this was hailed by G. Ligeti in 1980 as a “dialogue procedure”. The use of algorithmic methods does not erase the notion of responsibility, selection often becomes more important than assembling what is already there. The present AI is far from my mind. For this work I use a sensor array with which I can feed up to 32 parameters simultaneously and quasi-continuously to the algorithm with hands, arms and the whole body. I entrusted the improvised recordings to Friedemann von Rechenberg, who created a dense assemblage and the final stereo mix.

HANNA HARTMAN
Submarine Dreams (2014)

Dedicated to Folkmar Hein on his 70th birthday. The starting point are sound recordings I made in Folkmar Hein’s flat in Berlin. I edited and tonally reinterpreted these several hours of material, so that new sonic rooms were created. The piece was composed at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm.

HENRIK VON COLER
Chaos in the Garden (2023)

Robin Burke, David Runge, Klaus Scheuermann, Andreas Schuller (Modular Synth) Henrik von Coler (Klangregie, Komposition, Konzept Sound direction, composition, concept) Chaos in the Garden emerged from a short conversation with the chat bot, under the specification to generate an  experimental composition for arbitrary instruments. This should include explicit references to spatialization. The result is a dramaturgy in five movements that provides a structure for improvisation. Topos, structure, and aesthetics are largely attributable to ChatGPT. Therefore, the work is a
human-assisted computer composition.

ANJA ERDMANN (Germania, 1976)
Anja Erdmann, born in Erfurt, studied media art/media design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, specialising in sound art and electro-acoustic sound design. Noise, sound, light, shadow, movement and space characterise the artist’s work. For her intermedial installations, she prepares, for example, DC motors, solenoids and computer fans and stages them as noisy sound objects. The combination of light, electro-mechanical movement and sound creates special acoustic and audiovisual spatial experiences. She lives and works in Weimar.

KARL FRIEDRICH GERBER (Germania)
Karl Friedrich Gerber began playing electric bass at the age of 16. He studied jazz double bass with Adelhard Roidinger. Gerber received a physics diploma from the LMU Munich. His violin automaton was invited to the USA, South Korea and the World Music Days 2019, receiving the Award of Distinction from Matera Intermedia (IT) and the Best Music Award from CMMR 2020 Tokyo. Since then, he automated more instruments. His 32-sensor array was a finalist in the Guthman New Instrument Competition.

HANNA HARTMAN (Svezia, 1961)
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish composer, sound artist and performer living in Berlin. She has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants include the Karl Sczuka Prize, the Phonurgia Nova Prize, a Villa Aurora grant and the Rome Prize (Villa Massimo). During 2007 and 2008 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Swedish Radio and in 2019 at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Hanna Hartman is a member of the German Akademie der Künste, Berlin. She received the Deutscher Musikautor*innenpreis 2023.

HENRIK VON COLER (Germania)
Henrik von Coler is a composer, performer and researcher in the field of electronic music. His topics include spatial composition and performance, sound synthesis and signal processing, as well as systems for musical interaction. Since 2015, he is director of the TU Studio for Electronic Music. There he founded the Electronic Orchestra Charlottenburg, which explores concepts of composition and interpretation on multi-channel loudspeaker systems.