Instrumentation: for orator, alto, tenor and ensemble (1.1.1.0/1.1.1.0/2perc/2.1.1.1)

Texts: Heinz Zimmermann

A melodrama based on a text by Heinz Zimmermann. The theme of this piece concerns outer and inner captivity.

CHF: 57.00

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.1.0/2perc/14.4.4.2)

Searching for the subtlest sound track, fearful eruption, internalised epilogue.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 38.70

Instrumentation: for choir (SATB) wind music (clarinet, cornet, bugle, horn, trombone, tuba) and electronic tape

Texts: Volkslied

Satirical adaptation of the Swiss National Anthem in a collage like combination with other existing folk songs.
The wind passage (score flexible) requires a professional player. The chorus passage can be performed by a good amateur choir.


Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 30.00

Instrumentation: for brass ensemble (2tpt.hn.tbn.tba(tenor or bass trombone))

From dense to confused play, with short motives and some rigorous breaks with edgy repetitions - leading to a conclusive play of sound.

Duration: 11' 00"

Instrumentation: for three bass clarinets

Concertante performance or with simple parodic scenery.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for chamber orchestra (1.1.1(bcl).1/ 1.1.1.1/2perc/pf/ 2.1.1.1)

Penetrating and bursting forth or the structural surface, this is where the individual instruments make sound contact. Inspired by the first text of ‘Stimmen’ by Paul Celan.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 70.00

Instrumentation: for trumpet solo

For solo trumpet walking towards a goal ("target-objects" which the composer puts at his disposal) from which he then distances himself.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Instrumentation: for alto, clarinet and chamber orchestra (flute, horn and strings)

Texts: Max Bolliger

Based on a text by Max Bolliger from the collection of poems 'Schweigen, vermehrt um den Schnee' (Silence multiplied by the snow). On the theme of nature and death.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 63.60

Instrumentation: for sixteen solo strings (9.3.3.1)

Refined, far-reaching music with multifaceted sound appearances which, having scarcely taken shape, quickly evaporate, spinning away.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 51.00

Instrumentation: for clarinet and brass instruments (cn.bugle[=2tpt]/hn.tbn.tb)

Adaptation of folk musical elements.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Sound concept

Instrumentation: for three performers (all three vocal with additional instruments ad lib.)

With tape (collage of water sounds and water traces) and an installation for the visual artist Erwin Bossard. CD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: 45' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for orator, soprano, alto, countertenor, flute, guitar and bass clarinet

Texts: Samuel Backett

An audio play after a quote from Samuel Beckett's "Mal vu mal dit" (Badly seen badly said).

Duration: 55' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Three miniatures. Volatile figure play requiring agile manoeuvrability.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for piano

Inspired by a text bearing the same name by Ernst Jandl. Comical tension between formal severity and dramatised allusions.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for alto and violin

Texts: Ernst Jandl

Formal severity (alto) and virtuoso intoxicated play (vn) with a conformably direct relationship to the speech form and content of a text bearing the same name by Ernst Jandl.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for contrabass saxophone (also baritone saxophone) and electronic tape

Texts: Ernst Jandl

A theatrical attempt by a saxophonist to articulate the self-ironic text by Ernst Jandl through the mouthpiece of his instrument while the electronic tape plays.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Instrumentation: for instrumental ensemble (fl.cl/pf/perc/vn.vc)

Alternating solos for the wind and strings are concurrent with the transparent, fragile playing of the ensemble. Based on the ‘Stimmen’ - texts by Paul Celan.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 47.00

Instrumentation: for instrumental ensemble (fl.ob.cl(bcl).bn/perc/pf/2.1.1.1)

Bright and dark sounds in numerous forms are set in motion in a fragmentary way. This piece was inspired by the 'Stimmen' texts by Paul Celan.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 29.40

Instrumentation: for piano

Preoccupation with motion, with its origins in dance.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for violin and a prepared piano

Aphoristic - in memory of Alban Berg and his violin concerto; with post-serial roots, ...but only just!

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 23.00

Instrumentation: vor violoncello solo (incl. voice)

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for clarinet (b, c) and piano

Instrumentation: for twelve wind (fl(pic).ob.ca.cl.bcl.2bn.cbn/hn.tpt.tbn.tba) 2 percussionists and conductors

Musical theatrical play from the entrance to the bow.
DVD available from the composer.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 27.00

Instrumentation: for flute and harpsichord

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 27.00

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 38.70

movement-sound-light-choreography

Four 'movers' on a sand strewn floor (sand images designed by Erwin Bossard).
Live electronics. CD and DVD available from the composer.

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript

4 pieces

Instrumentation: for 3 guitars

Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for violin solo, ensemble (fl.cl/vn.vc/gtr/pf) and two ball players (quasi percussion)

Playful concept piece.

Duration: 8' 00"
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Instrumentation: for shakuhachi, string trio and percussion

Fine, transparent sound piece using the Japanese Zen flute, the shakuhachi. An attempt to converge.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 39.00

Play concept

Instrumentation: for violoncello, accordion, guitar, vocal ensemble or percussion

For the sound installation by Hedwig Renggli.

Duration: ad libitum
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for two pianos

Four movements:
'kontrabass', cumbersome and kinetic.
'harmonium' compressed variations form.
'verklang' an unconventional way of dealing with fade out.
'jezz' rhythmically tricky, moving play.


Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for five alphorns and simple electronic (ad libitum)

Solo voice (with freedom to improvise) to a rhythmically flowing alphorn quartet movement. Required are: five horns in F, three horns in F#, and one horn in E. Recorded transformed alphorn figures on CD can be used freely as a counterpart to the solo alphorn.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for shakuhachi and seven flute players (instrumentarium: pic.fl-f.4fl-c.afl-g.bfl-c.bfl-f.cbfl-c)

Four movements. Four differing attempts to combine the soloistic Japanese Zen flute, the shakuhachi, with the european transverse flute.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 30.60

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder, viola, violoncello and percussion

These three studies of intermediate difficulty are composed for a small resonant room.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Musical-scenic actions

Instrumentation: for one acting percussionist

Duration: ad libitum
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for a baroque ensemble (altus, tenor recorder, baroque violin, viola da gamba, harpsichord)

Texts: Thomas Locher

Based on text clippings from 'Das Eine. Das Selbe. Das Gleiche' by Thomas Locher. Introduction and dance that allow the baroque elements to shine through. Tonally subtle and transparent music. Typical baroque performance technique combined with a variety of contemporary experimental (noisy, brittle) playing methods.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 20.00

Three pieces

Instrumentation: for guitar duo

For guitar, an unconventional yet guitar-like piece sounding meticulously fine and transparent. Intermediate level of difficulty.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 18.00

sound action

Instrumentation: for 130 children

A procession through the streets of Zug with sound objects. Developed in cooperation with the Lucerne artist Barbara Jäggi for the STV-Fest 2001. DVD available from the composer.

Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for guitar duo

Duration: 13' 00"

spatial-acoustic intallation

For the Kornschütte lucerne, together with the Lucerne artist Barbara Jäggi.
CD for the installation available from the composer; photographic documentation.

Manuscript

Five short scenes

Instrumentation: for one percussionist (one floor tom-tom and three cymbals)

The presentation of this piece goes beyond pure percussion playing. The performance concepts have theatrical significance and have to be accomplished with a concentrated stage presence.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for voice (altus), recorder(s), violin, gamba and doublebass

This project is a collaboration between video art and a musically open play disposition in the room. Based on a text by Thomas Locher, with the Scappatella Ensemble and the video artist Judith Albert.
CD and video with the composer.

Duration: 50' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for violoncello and string orchestra (5.4.2.2.1)

Commissioned by Festival Stings Lucerne with the soloist Patrick Demenga. It is the renewed attempt to convey the movement of nature in non-imitative musical outlines.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 26.40

Sound installation

Dance stage made of wood (dance area 2.5 x 4m). A mobile dance floor triggers notes from accordions installed underneath the dance floor. In collaboration with Peter Allamand for 'klangraum heiligkreuz 2003', an exhibition with sound installations and sound actions (29.6.03 - 19.10.03) in Heiligkreuz, Entlebuch. DVD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: variabel
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Sound chain movements (with various exclusive sound requisites) in an open space for 10 performers. Performed within the framework of 'witterung.stromaufwärts Hörgänge im Freien' at the Festival Rümlingen in 2003 on the night of 15th/16th August 2003.

Duration: 50' 00"
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Sound action

In and around the Heiligkreuz church with improvising soloists and a loose action group consisting of ca. 20 people. Performed within the framework of 'klangraum heiligkreuz 2003', an exhibition with sound installations and sound actions (29.6.03 - 19.10.03) in Heiligkreuz, Entlebuch. DVD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: 45' 00"
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sound action

Instrumentation: for 4 accordion players

For the sound installation (in collaboration with Peter Allamand) and intervention group (actresses, countertenor, violin, alphorn, wind trio) within the framework of the bus project 'luzern-stadterfahren' on 5.6.04 in Lucerne, Photos and DVD available from the composer.

Duration: 40' 00"
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Performance

With a melodica hanging from a red 150cm diameter, 450cm circumference, 1400g force-bearing, helium gas filled (ca. 1.8m3) balloon. The playing of the harmonica, brought about by the gradual deflating of the balloon, serves the sole purpose of bringing the balloon back down to the floor (performed on the 29.09.04 in the Kappelle zum hl. Geist, Lucerne).

Duration: 20' 00"
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World New Music Days 2004. A sort of call for cessation on the prolifically traversed Seebrücke in Lucerne. Concept: Barbara Jäggi, Corinne Jäggi, Markus Lauterburg and Urban Mäder
Organisation: Christine Weber Wort&Ohr.
Sound installation by Andreas Glauger. DVD available from the composer.

Duration: variabel
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Concert piece

Instrumentation: for choir (SATB), violin, double bass and organ

Commissioned by the Cantorin Contenti Zug. Even though the starting point for this composition is texts from Bach's "Jesu, meine Freude", "Gesten - Nichts" still remains a rudimentary music of sound and noise.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Sound action

With 40 children, for the installation bearing the same name by the American artist Dale Chihuly at the Museum of Art, Lucerne. Mille Flori is the result of the Art and Music Workshop in cooperation with Flurina Paravicini within the framework of the Children's Corner at the 2005 Lucerne Festival. CD and DVD available from the composer.

Duration: 30' 00"
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For Cristin Wildbolz.
The course of motions is derived partly from simple normal bass playing and partly from musical motion sequences.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 15.60

sound installation and sound performance

Sound installation and sound performance within the framework of the Archipel Festival, Geneva 2006. Together with Alexa Montani, Marie Schwab, Lukas Berchtold, Patrick Kovaliv and 14 children. DVD and photos available form the composer.

Duration: 30' 00"
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Sound installation

In collaboration with Peter Allamand. Accordion (with a fixed deep B) on a stool, a vacuum cleaner sucks on the bellows for 8 seconds, the bellows then move towards the floor for the following 20 seconds. First presented within the framework of the Archipal Festival in Geneva in 2006. DVD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: variabel
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Exhibition of sheet metal objects (various sizes and forms of sheet metal rolls) by Barbara Jäggi from 13th - 30th April 2006 at the 'Kunstpanorama' in Lucerne. Following various concepts, six sound actions were performed during this period, each with two female performers who set the rolls in motion together with music ensembles. CD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: 50' 00"
Manuscript

Instrumentation: for recorder(s) and harpsichord

Eight fragments for recorder(s) and harpsichord.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Sound performance

In collaboration with Peter Allamand and performed within the framework of 'Nachtschicht', Festival Rümlingen 2007, on the night of 24th/25th August 2007. Eight participants move around paths in the landscape with mobile accordion objects mounted on wheels; the motion causes the bellows to move thus producing tones and noises. Five conceptual actions for voice and movement in a temporally open form provide the basis for this performance. DVD and photos available from the composer.

Duration: variabel
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Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Three movements: gestaut, dickflüssig, überschwappend.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 26.40

Instrumentation: for two saxophone quartets

Three movements: vögel ziehn ins offene, die ahnung, ein süsser duft.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 31.80

Composition sketches

Instrumentation: for choir, altus, 4 saxophones, recorder, trumpet, trombone, percussion, violin and double bass

Music, performance and installation at the lido in Luzern.

Duration: 40' 00"-60' 00" (variabel)
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Encounters in the alps in 6 movements

Instrumentation: for blfl, 2bfl, dulcimer, Swiss acc, acc, pf, vn and fl, cl, pf, vn, vc

Commissioned by the Tonkünstlerfest for the 2010 Lucerne Festival.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 40.80

Instrumentation: for sax, accordion, 2 pianos and viola

Duration: 25' 00"
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Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and string quintet

After a radio protocol on Pilatus. Commissioned by the Ensemble Montaigne, Lucerne.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 40.70