Instrumentation: for electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD) and orchestra (1.2(ca).2(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.1.1/hp/str)

Texts: Christina Thürmer-Rohr

A version for chamber orchestra (wind quintet, strings, piano and electronic tape) is also available (1994).

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 25.20

Instrumentation: for flute, string trio, harp (or bass), piano and electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD)

Texts: Christina Thürmer-Rohr

Based on a text by Christina Thürmer-Rohr.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 53.40

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet, horn (Alphorn), violoncello and electronic (CD/DAT or MD)

After texts by Hannah Arendt.
This piece uses a half conventional score with 'cell' improvisation. All instruments are to be amplified where possible.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for dance, double-bass (or violoncello), thunder board and electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD)

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for percussion trio and large electronic tape loop

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.00

for violoncello solo and live electronics (ambisonic setup, min. 4 loud speakers)

"Kanon" is based on the overtone series of the cello strings C - G - D - A and works with each string's natural flageolets. The cello signal is picked up by the microphone and turned into a canon using an algorithm created expecially for this piece.

Duration: 7' 30"

CHF: 15.60

Ergon 1

Instrumentation: for two flutes and playback

A secret revelation by the oneirocritic Cayce about 'Lemuria', the continent lost under the pacific ocean - as told by Plato and here translated into acousic images.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: for baritone and electronic tape

Texts: Michael Harlow

Experimental piece using extensive graphic notation.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.60

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 transverse flute (c' - g) and electronic tape

A piece with various modern playing methods based on a picture bearing the same name by Kokoschka.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet and electronic (ad libitum)

This piece expounds on the life development of the soul. The acoustics of the strings resonate in balance with our own heartstrings, while electronic sounds reflect our environment and its influence over us.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 26.70

Instrumentation: for a small ensemble (soprano, tenor, flute, horn, percussion) and electronic tape

Text: Pierre Emmanuel, William Butler Yeats, Paul Eluard, Gerald Griffin, Jacques Prévert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Maurice Maeterlink, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Drama for a man and a woman, in English and French.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 35.40

for Christian Gusenski

Instrumentation: for violin, piano and electronic tape

Relates to a picture by Christian Gusenski whereby the colours and forms of the 'portrait' are set in music.
Stop watches are required in the realisation of this piece because the timing is seperated into seconds.

To receive the CD you can contact Pia Blum (pia-blum@bluewin.ch) directly.

Duration: 7' 55"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, orator, CD playback and ensemble (piano quartet and one percussionist: marimbaphone, vibraphone, large drum, small drum, flexatone, whip, cipher)

Texts: Alltags- Werbe- Mediensprache

Text: Commentary from the French national football team winning the world championships: "Aux larmes citoyens!", "La victoire est en eux!", "Ils iront tous aux paradis!".

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for high soprano and electronic tape

Texts: Chinesisch, Lao-Tse

Texts from 'Tao Te Ching' and 'I Ching'.
A confrontation between two contrasting philosophies.


Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Large-scale string quartet, which opens a discourse on the African way of making music, be it vocally or instrumentally. This piece is based on rituals still alive in Togo today. 'Fada' is Togolian and means 'Father'. Fada is clergyman Karl Rohrbach, who has offered his exemplary services for development aid in Togo for more than twenty years.
The strings also play pedal drums, rattles and blow a whistle. The third passage is to be performed with live electronic.


Duration: 54' 00"

CHF: 52.70

Instrumentation: for Soprano and electronic

Texts: Bibel

The singing can be meditative, joyful or even agitated, it changes from one to the other in the rhythm of thinking - as in an inner monologue. The electronic part consists of the sounds of spoken voice, cymbals, organ and computer generated parts.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 27.00

Instrumentation: for violin, viola and electronic tape

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for string octet with sound-file playback

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 49.30

Musical theatre piece

Instrumentation: for singers, orator and electronic tape

Texts: Michael Harlow

Playful work dealing with power and submission.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for two violins with electronic effects

'La Mariposa' (the butterfly) - symbol of change - looks at the uncharted realm of death and rebirth. A world of sensual delights and passionate struggle, finally magnifying all the forces of life.

Duration: 4' 10"

CHF: 31.80

Version 1985: scenic

Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano, actor, small amplification equipment and a small wooden table

Texts: Heinrich Heine

Twelve pieces of music (songs and a piano piece) with texts by Heine throughout, representing a biography in five stages. The Soprano needs a strong low register.

Duration: 40' 00"

CHF: 36.70

Instrumentation: for piano and electronic tape

The pianist plays on the keyboard and the string on the interior of the piano. The notation is synchronised with the electronic tape. Contains aleatoric passages in the notation. The tape is composed exclusively of pre-recorded and studio processed piano sounds. The CD that accompanies this piece is delivered with the score.

Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for violin and violoncello with electronic amplification

A process from a fixed pitch grid off into unexplored parts of intonation.

Duration: 10' 00"-12' 00"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for electronic, flute, violin, viola percussion, and dance (ad lib.)

A combination of live music, electronic tape and dance. This piece evokes the inside of archetypal images, images that, throughout time and evolution, have expressed to us the hope of a world of communication that lies beyond our illusory daily lives.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 34.70

Instrumentation: for accordion & real-time electronics

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for clarinet (basset horn or bass clarinet), piano and electro-acoustic slide show

The title is a neologism evoking spring or birth. The notation is graphic and rules define its interpretation. Accessories for the piano: a glass with a stem, claves, a percussion stick and a screw. The electro-acoustic device consists of 4 or 6 loud speakers divided in the room, two microphones for direct amplification and 2 Revox, the second of which reproduces, with a delay of about 10", that which is recorded by the first.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 18.00

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 soprano, violin, violoncello, trombone, percussion, piano, electronic tape and a piece of mechanical equipment

A half scenic attempt to look at the common ground between musical and theatrical operation and the resulting relationship between movement and sound.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 24.70

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 large mixed choir and play-back tapes

Texts: Meret Oppenheim

Based on text, images and an object by Meret Oppenheim.
The very large sounding body is set like a sculpture in the room. Commissioned by the Fifth Swiss Women's Congress in Bern.


Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 42.00

Ergon 8, Nr. 2

Instrumentation: for chamber ensemble with electronic sound alteration (voice, trumpet in C, electric guitar, percussion, piano, vocoder, harmonizer, ringmodulator, continuous electronic tape-loop and playback)

Elektronische Klangumwandlungen traditioneller Instrumentalklänge evozieren ein "ästhetisches Fluktuieren".
Elektronik: Vocoder, Harmonizer, Ringmodulator, Tonbandschlaufe, Zuspielband

Duration: 1 - 3 min

CHF: 14.40

Zu den live spielenden Instrumenten Flöte und Klarinette (auch Bassklarinette) läuft im Hintergrund eine CD. Darauf befinden sich Klavierklänge verschiedenster Art, welche mannigfach verarbeitet wurden.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for viola and electronic

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for live electronics and double bass

Duration: 10' 15"

CHF: 13.80

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 clarinet/bass clarinet and computer generated multi-channel ambisonic tape

Duration: 11' 45"

CHF: 26.00

Instrumentation: for multi-percussion and real-time electronics

Percussion: 3 wood blocks, 5 temple blocks, 2 log drums, 2 bongos, 4 toms, 1 bass drum, 5 suspended cymbals / 1 performer
Electronics: A series of numbered events determine the modifications of the electronic processing. The events can be activated by the percussionist (via pedal or midi) or by a sound technician.
Equipment: 7 wireless micros, 8 loudspeakers arranged throughout the audience, 1 macintosh computer with Max MSP 5 software installed, 1 sound card with 8 line-in and 8 line-out.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 27.60

Instrumentation: for guqin, pre-recorded tape and string quartet

Commissioned by the Guqin player Ms. Dai Xiaolian, I composed "The Tender Language of Wu" for guqin, pre-recorded tape and string quartet. The tape recording was completed with the help from Suzhou native students Li Mingyue, Zhou Heqing, Lu Wenyi and Gu Yunyu from the Musicology Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Zhang Shichao from the Composition Department of the same school.

Suzhou dialect is often considered to be soft, light, and flowing, therefore given a good name Wu nong ruan yu , which literally means "The Tender Language of Wu". Guqin and western string instruments are both characteristic of gentleness and elegance. I had intended to create a dialogue between these different factors by integrating the ancient Chinese and western string instruments with the tender language of Wu and modern digital audio technology.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for soprano, clarinet (also Ebcl, bcl), violoncello (also viola), piano (also clavichord) and DAT play-back

Texts: Fernando Pessoa

Eight scenes from the poems of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The Soprano sings and recites in Portuguese, German and French. Very demanding for all performers.

Duration: 48' 00"

CHF: 48.00

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: for four trombones, piano, electric guitar and elextronic amplification

Contains a large improvised portion - works humorously with the fire brigade-fourth. Simple pitch shifting and echoplex (quasi belt sander with a duration of 20 seconds).

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for tuba, percussion, piano and live electronic (BOSS SE-70)

Changements - between various instrumental groups, between natural and transformed sound, between calm and hectic, between cut and transition, between air and tone, between pulse and free rhythm, between repetition and progress, between sound and noise, between…

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for piano and live electronics

These days, a machine is increasingly the conversational partner of humans and so it is in "Selbstgespräche". A small digital apparatus is positioned directly onto the piano and is operated predominantly by the pianist using two foot pedals. The apparatus changes, morphs or repeats that which is played by the pianist, who in turn reintervenes in this transformed sound.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for violin and live electronics

The volatile and varying movements of everyday life, a little like the "stop and go" of traffic, provides the basic feeling of tempo for modern times. Irregular rhythms in music are a reflection of this. In "Hasten und Warten", this is taken as the model for the form. The change between stop and go is regular, however, the duration of each section is irregular, ranging from 1 second to 83 seconds. The violin and electronics do not always ride parallel but also in opposition: the violin remains static and the electronics give the impulse or vice versa. The movement contrast does not appear thus in succession but also contrapuntal in simultaneity.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for guitar and live electronics

Both partners are handled equally. The electronics do not only remain passive but also take the initiative. Sometimes the guitar remains on a percussive sample and the electronics answer with increasingly hectic movements, at other times both partners move with varying pulse, as though on two levels, at other times still the guitar gives the impulse, occasionally there is an intensive improvised interaction with rapid and spontaneous role changes.

Duration: 7' 00"-8' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Ergon 62, Nr. 2, Musikwerknummer 1808, auf ein Gedicht des Komponisten

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton, geschlagenes Klavier und Zuspiel-Klänge oder Live-Ensemble (sechsstimmiger (Zuspiel-)Chor, (Zuspiel-)Klavier, (Zuspiel-)Geräuschspur sowie ein Field recording

Duration: 4' 30"

CHF: 25.80

auf ein Gedicht des Komponisten, Ergon 91, Nr. 1, Musikwerknummer 2190

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton und Geräuschspur (Elektronik)

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Das dunkel Raunende und das hell Erleuchtete durchziehen das Stück in mehrfacher Hinsicht.

ISBN 978-3-907467-01-5

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.80