Instrumentation: for speaking choir

Texts: Friedrich Nietzsche

Text: Friedrich Nietzsche.

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for alto recorder and harpsichord

'weiland' (once upon a time) refers here to the once existing balance between rest and occupation, a balance altered at the expense of rest.

Duration: 5' 00"

Instrumentation: for two Renaissance recorders

This piece is based on the real experience of the astonishing quiet shortly before the pass peak on a mountain.

Duration: 7' 00"

Instrumentation: for violin and trombone

Three-part piece: grosse Entfernung - Nähe - Entfernung, ohne die innere Beziehung zu verlieren.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for recorder, bass clarinet, viola, violoncello and two percussionists

The melody is expanded in a tower of quints. A row of variations in three parts where the melody sounds as a whole only in the second part.
Conductor is of use.


Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 13.30

Instrumentation: for bass recorder and zink

A quasi study of the flow of time based on the song bearing the same name by the Beatles.

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for choir without conductor and four mouth organs

Texts: Robert Musil

Chronological organisation functions in place of the conductor via the ears of the participants. The short text fragments by Robert Musil surface again and again.For an amateur choir.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 23.30

Instrumentation: for two violoncelli

Two separated but simultaneously played voices (one from Markus Wettstein, and the other from Hans-Jürg Meier) with only one obligation: both voices are of identical duration.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 16.70

Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

The musical text by Josquin Desprez is read anew (unisonous, spoken, freely contrasted) and is almost original in some parts. Rather more suited to a small choir.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for electronic tape

H.M. allows (...) language to balance comfortably on the small ridge between semantics and sound. (Alfred Zimmerlin)

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for two recorders, zink, trombone, violin and two violoncelli

The 'Harmonies' by Erik Satie are the basis for several parts. Conductor of use.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 26.00

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder, violoncello and vibraphone

Three parts: véhément / paralysé / -.The recorder requires amplification in parts.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 22.70

Instrumentation: for any six instruments

In addition to playing their main instrument all players use a foot pedal in order to produce a percussion sound.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for three percussionists

Three parts: véhément / paralysé / -.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 22.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, three Renaissance recorders, percussion and electronic tape

Texts: Samuel Beckett

Seven poems from the 'Mirlitonnades' by Samuel Beckett form the textual base of this piece.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 25.30

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder and violoncello

Annäherungen - Abstossungen - fast ein Zusammentreffen

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 15.30

Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello, piano and tape recorder

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for 3 recorders and tape recorder

Duration: 45' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for alto flute, trombone, violin, viola and violoncello

In the middle of the players sits a tub of water into which small pebbles are thrown. This triggers musical actions from the players.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for bassoon, violoncello, mezzo-soprano and everyday objects

Texts: John Cage (Ernst Jandl)

A five-part piece where the first (chaste) parts are based on an identical time structure, the later parts are much less restricted.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.30

Instrumentation: for lute, timpani and viola

This piece extracts its energy from the contrast between intensity and tenderness.
The opening viola solo is quasi leading the trio.


Duration: 8' 00"

Instrumentation: for three electronic tapes (sound insallation)

Fading every-day sounds from the domestic environment are assembled on three electronic tapes. Repeating the tapes results in ever changing combinations of the same sounds.

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for alto flute (flute) oboe (english horn) and soprano saxophone (alto saxophone)

A nine-part piece - a confrontation between the music of Guillaume de Machaut and Hans-Jürg Meier.

Duration: 30' 00"

CHF: 44.00

Instrumentation: for orator and a-cappella choir

Texts: Pablo Neruda

While the orator disappears onto the level of memory (becomes silent) the choir picks up the words (the words of Pablo Neruda) in song.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 23.30

Instrumentation: for guitar

Over a set period of time the composer Dodo Schielein sent the end part of a composition to Hans-Jürg Meier who, in turn, continued the composition sending the end of his part back to Dodo Schielein, this continued until a composition in twelve parts resulted. Smooth transitions and resumptions keep the piece together.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for percussion, tenor recorder, viola and violoncello

A music that evolves in extended development, for a performance location with a lot of reverberation. An additional tone installation can sound simultaneously.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 33.30

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder, oboe, soprano saxophone and bassoon

Four conversational partners embroil, increasingly dramatically and then calm down in a multi-sounding room.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 25.30

Instrumentation: for three electronic tapes (sound installation)

Six speakers repeat single shreds of text, singular consonants and a few sung vocals. Different degrees of tightness and varying correlations.

Manuscript

Instrumentation: for four electronic tapes (sound installation)

An invariable tone wanders through the room, expands, changes direction, re-compresses and butts back up to the beginning.

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for two mixed choirs and every-day objects

Texts: Hans-Jürg Meier

Text by the composer.

Duration: 32' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for alphorn and accordion

From wierd to joyful; dreams in a lodge.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for voice (alto), flute (pic, afl)bassoon, trumpet, vioal, violoncello and piano,

Texts: Johann Peter Hebel, Hans-Jürg Meier

Music to the story 'Unverhoffte Wiederbegegnung' by Johann Peter Hebel. Composed partly rhythmically open.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 36.70

absence

Instrumentation: for tape

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for 18-20 recorders, 20 strings, stones and mussels

Composed for music students: level of difficulty ranges from elementary to advanced. The whole cycle is divided into many small pieces.

Duration: 42' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for flute, (bfl, cbfl), horn, two trumpets, trombone and tuba

Helical searching for osculation points.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.30

Instrumentation: for saxophone quartet (2a, 2t)

Knottings of time. Urging forwards - stillstand - floating without clues in time.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Interlude in 6 parts

Instrumentation: for 2 sx, 2 gtr and tape

Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, alphorn and accordion

Texts: Josef Reinhart

Arrangement of the folksong by Carl Hess.

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for twelve voices (3.3.3.3)

Texts: Francesco Petrarca, Hans-Jürg Meier

The musicalisation of a journey by foot.
For a professional ensemble; many noise-like parts.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 33.30

Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello and piano

"This piece is based on a structure derived from the structure of the village of Soglio in Bergell. Meier succeeded in building an organic, undramatic yet increasingly enthralling form of attractive sonority - a poetic sound room." (Alfred Zimmerlin)

Duration: 10' 30"

CHF: 26.00

sound installation for two-channel CD

Duration: 58' 00"
Manuscript

sound installation for two-channel CD

Duration: 66' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for 3 tenor saxiphones and baritone saxophone

Formally based on the floor plan of the 'Santo Stefano in Rotondo'commemoration church on the Monte Celio in Rome the music flows alternately through the physical conditions of the water.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for oboe, trumpet in B (ossia soprano saxophone or clarinet in B), guitar

"Rather a cloud of birds in the sky than one in the hand." (Eduardo Chillida)

Duration: 11' 30"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for mixed choir (SSATB) and contrabass flute (also flute)

Texts: Ottavio Rinuccini, Catullus, Ovid, Hans-Jürg Meier

Ariadne's experiences with Theseus and Bacchus are related from the perspective of the Corona Borealis constellation:
1. Theseus and Ariadne: promise of marriage on the island of Nexus
2. Theseus: called upon by an aide to leave
3. Ariadne: abandonment and delusion
4. Ariadne and Bacchus: heavenly wedding and the casting of the crown into the sky, which remained in the form of the constellation.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 39.60

Instrumentation: for transverse flute, natural horn, double bass

Formal references lead to the grotesque paintings of the Domus Aurea rooms in Rome. As regards content, the sirens have their grand appearance.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for violoncello

One can twist and turn it as one will, the eye will always read the surface as a spatial object.
With reference to the floor pattern of the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice.

Duration: 1' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for recorder quintet (Renaissance instruments)

A fictive walk around the Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, where concerts with early music could also be found.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 36.00

Instrumentation: for saxophone and organ

Spatial music to the Legend of Amphion.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 14.00

Instrumentation: for 3 small drums

Spatial music for a courtyard with a very strong echo.

Duration: 27' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for solo voice and a wind instrument

Texts: Ottavio Rinuccini

Music in four parts, presented between the four sections of the madrigal version of "Lamento d'Arianna" in five voices (1610) by Claudio Monteverdi.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for voice and instruments

Texts: Hans-Jürg Meier

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for 6 pianos and 8 pairs of high instruments (flutes, clarinets, trumpets, cornets, harps and violins)

Spatial composition based on a text by Elisabeth Binder (from "Orfeo"). For students.

Duration: 8' 30"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for 8 small drums

Rotary spatial composition. For students.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for 5 instrumental groups (piano and alto sax; alto sax and violoncello; violoncello and trombone; trombone and piano; e-bass and large drum) and 3 soloists (alphorn, violin and voice)

Several ups and downs in a hilly area. Enjoying the view on each occasion with a musical solo. For students.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for voice (mezzo-soprano) and flute

Text by Marianne Schuppe (staging: Hans-Jürg Meier)
"Between two languages lies a room. Between language and music lies a room. And between reading, resp. listening and writing lies time. Translating is the setting of one's own words resp. signs in relation." (Marianne Schuppe)


Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 15.30

Instrumentation: for oboe solo

Duration: 5' 30"

CHF: 12.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, altus and 9 instruments (recorder (or aulos), flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, violoncello, bandoneon, percussion)

Texts: Hans-Jürg Meier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hilde Domin, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, Mona van Duyn, Dante Alighieri, antike A

Profane consideration of the Annunciation scene. Sacred music in a double proscenium and a three-part main piece.

Duration: 58' 00"

CHF: 108.00

Instrumentation: for panpipes, transverse flutes, recorders, clarinets, saxophone, horns, trombones, trumpets

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 39.60

Instrumentation: for 4 alto recorders, guitar, tromba marina, percussion

A tentative musical exploration of the 1907 painting "Herbst (Schule)" by Marianne Werefkin.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for vocal quartet (SMezTB)

Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke

Music in four parts with texts from "Die Sonette an Orpheus" (1922):
I Blume und Buch
II Tempel im Gehör
III Gesang ist Dasein
IV Lied überm Land

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 33.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, 4 Renaissance flutes and lute

Texts from the "Canticum Canticorum".
Music in six parts about the "Santa Maria Formosa" church by Mauro Codussi (Venice):
I ort und zeit (gondola);
II er besingt sie (caminada);
III sie besingt ihn (caminada);
IV minne (hortus conclusus);
V wein (cielo);
VI siegel (fuoco).

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 39.00

Installation music (1 CD)

Duration: 33' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for melodica and objects, saxophone (bar, a) trombone, violin, viola, double bass and voice (soprano)

Texts: Hadrian

A trip to and into the Pantheon in Rome in four parts: Tympanon,
Pronaos, Innenraum, Opaion. The performance places the Endless Column in Targo Jiu by Constantin Brancusi into the Pantheon.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 52.00

Installation music (4 CDs)

Duration: 72' 00"
Manuscript

Installation music (1 CD)

Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for electric guitar and live electronics

Musically crafted work about the 'crab'; inspired by "Ma fin est mon commencement" by Guillaume de Machaut.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.70

Instrumentation: für Streichensemble (6 V; 3 Va; 2 Vc; Kb)

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 36.00

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Mezzosopran und 4 Renaissancetraversflöten

Texts: Francesco Petrarca

Sonett 148 aus "Canzoniero": "Non Tessin, Po, Varo, Adige, et Tebro".

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: für Tenorsaxophon und Klavier

Musik in zwei Teilen, welche vor und nach der Konzertpause gespielt werden. Im ersten Teil werden buchstäblich immer mehr Pausen herausgeschnitten, im zweiten Teil finden die Pausen zu musikalischen Formen und die Klangabfolge verlangsamt sich.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: für 21 Sopranblockflöten (Kinder ab ca. 9 Jahren)

Musik für vier Gruppen, welche je für sich und untereinander ein Kommunikationsnetz aufspannen. Angelehnt an Forschungsergebnisse zur Kommunikation von Pflanzen.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: für Stimme (Mezzossopran) und Renaissance-Laute

Texts: Louïze Labé

Drei Sonette von Louïze Labé sind wie als Strophen über denselben Musiktext vertont. Ein Vorspiel und zwei Zwischenspiele wirken wie ruhige, distanzierte Kommata.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: für Sopraninoblockflöte, Klarinette, Englischhorn, Violine, Kastagnetten, Tempelblock, Zink, Trompete, Horn, Posaune, Laute, Harfe

12 Fragmente zum Heidelberger Totentanz: Der Konig, von allem stadt, Der bruder, Die junckfrauiwe, Der artzt, Der ritter, Der spieler, Der schriber, Der wucherer, Der kaiser, Der wirt, der dumherr.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: version pour violon seul

Die 12 Fragmente zum Heidelberger Totentanz arrangiert für Violine solo und in eine quasi symmetrische Abfolge gebracht.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: für drei Traversflöten und Schlagzeug

Musik zu Santo Stefano Rotondo (Rom, ca. 460). Die architektonischen Themen der frühchristlich-spätantiken Rundkirche werden musikalisch umgesetzt: kreisende Bewegungen; diaphane Strukturen, welche die Raumstaffelung in musikalischen Schichten wiedergeben; das Licht, welches von den Oberfenstern des Zentralraumes in die Kirche einströmt, spiegelt sich in der wechselweise hellen oder dunklen Harmonik.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 22.70

Instrumentation: für Lithophon

Ein konstanter Wirbel führt das Ohr zu den eigenartigen Obertonspektren des Lithophons.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 9.00