16.11.2024. 20:00
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Laura Bowler and the Decoder Ensemble
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
02.09.2024. 20:00
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Laura Bowler and the Decoder Ensemble
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
18.09.2024. 20:00
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Laura Bowler and the Decoder Ensemble
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
06.07.2024. 19:00
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Laura Bowler and the Decoder Ensemble
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
25.04.2024. 21:00
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Laura Bowler and the Decoder Ensemble
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
National Concert Hall Dublin, Studio
01.12.2023. 21:30
Decoder @ NuMu – Neue und ungedeckte Musik in Baden (CH)
Decoder presents solo works and the film Acceptance.
Kulturhaus Royal
Bahnhofstrasse 39
5400 Baden
03.11.2023. 20:00
As part of the 51st Pan Music Festival in Seoul, Korea, produced by the ISCM Korea, Decoder will play works by Alexander Schubert, Andrej Koroliov, Leopold Hurt, Sarah Nemtsov and Liepa Vozgirdaitė.
Sowol Art Hall, Seoul Korea, November 3rd, 2023 19:30
18.11.2023. 20:00
A piece by Laura Bowler
Exploring the idea of our ever growing tribalist society, this work draws focus on our desires to self advertise in order to ensure our place in our chosen tribes in the virtual and real life. The work will exist as a series of semi-autobiographical adverts, drawing from several key political and social experiences that can determine one’s tribe.
Performed by Decoder Ensemble, Iñigo Giner Miranda (piano)
Tattoo Artist: Julia Rehme
30.09.2023. 20:00
ANIMA™ by Alexander Schubert is an experimental performative setting that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to question the conventional, constructivist perception of human beings. The music-theatrical work is based on the assumption that a person’s identity and perception is merely a model that can be explored, varied and manipulated. Using so-called „deep learning“, the fluidity of the human being is explored metaphorically, while the performers interact on stage with variations of their own selves.
29th and 30th of September at 20:00
A production of Decoder Ensemble
Co-production by IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
29.09.2023. 20:00
ANIMA™ by Alexander Schubert is an experimental performative setting that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to question the conventional, constructivist perception of human beings. The music-theatrical work is based on the assumption that a person’s identity and perception is merely a model that can be explored, varied and manipulated. Using so-called „deep learning“, the fluidity of the human being is explored metaphorically, while the performers interact on stage with variations of their own selves.
29th and 30th of September at 20:00
A production of the Decoder Ensemble
Co-production: IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
20.04.2023. 20:30
„Dissociated Press” by Leopold Hurt @ Elbphilharmonie
„Dissociated Press” is a concert-length cycle of compositions by Leopold Hurt, that began their creation in 2017. The instrumentation ranges from solo pieces with electronics to a septet – specifically conceived for the characteristic instrumentation of the Decoder Ensemble, with the guest speaker Heinrich Horwitz. Dissociated Press – as a pun on „Associated Press“ – utilizes an AI algorithm for automatic text generation based on known speech patterns. The cycle elaborates on this technique, exploring different approaches to the idea of “remix-ing“, both musically and with language. With variations of the material, sliding between original, copy, mashup and faking, the perception gradually shifts.
Musicians: Decoder Ensemble
Speaker: Heinrich Horwitz
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
30.07.2023. 19:00
24. – 31.07.2023
Decoder will be one of the Ulysses Ensembles in Residence at this years impuls Academy in Graz. From July 24 – 31 Decoder will be working with young composers, developing their works, and giving workshops.
22.02.2023. 20:00
Decoder gives the World Premiere of Andrej Koroliov’s newly completed cycle „Überbelichtung und Riss“ at the IGNM- Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Bern
21.01.2023. 14:00
„Dissociated Press” by Leopold Hurt @ Ultraschall Festival Berlin
„Dissociated Press” is a concert-length cycle of compositions by Leopold Hurt, that began their creation in 2017. The instrumentation ranges from solo pieces with electronics to a septet – specifically conceived for the characteristic instrumentation of the Decoder Ensemble, with the guest speaker Heinrich Horwitz. Dissociated Press – as a pun on „Associated Press“ – utilizes an AI algorithm for automatic text generation based on known speech patterns. The cycle elaborates on this technique, exploring different approaches to the idea of “remix-ing“, both musically and with language. With variations of the material, sliding between original, copy, mashup and faking, the perception gradually shifts.
Musicians: Decoder Ensemble
Speaker: Heinrich Horwitz
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
23.10.2022. 19:30, Kampnagel Hamburg
Photo by Quentin Chevrier
ANIMA™ is a performative experimental setting that utilizes the tools of artificial intelligence in order to question the human constructivist perception and the formation of identity. ANIMA™ is a fictional spiritual institution where performers engage in intoxicating interactions with variations of themselves.
Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition
Patricia Carolin Mai choreography
Lucas Gutierrez video
Stefan Britze set design
Felina Levits costumes
Diego Muhr lighting
Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou electronics
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro
with guests Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung
Text Assistance: Michael Brailey
Choreographish Assistance: Lise Herdam, Ines Assoual
Production Mangament: Elisabeth Brunmayr
Production Assistance: Mirella Frenzel
Technical Coordination: Dennis Nähr
A Decoder Ensemble production, Co-produced by IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
With generous support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as well as Elbkulturfonds der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Impuls neue Musik, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, LICHTHOF Stiftung, Goethe Institut Paris, avec le soutien du réseau ULYSSES.
In cooperation with the LICHTHOF Theater as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Kampnagel Hamburg
22.10.2022. 19:30, Kampnagel Hamburg
Photo by Quentin Chevrier
ANIMA™ is a performative experimental setting that utilizes the tools of artificial intelligence in order to question the human constructivist perception and the formation of identity. ANIMA™ is a fictional spiritual institution where performers engage in intoxicating interactions with variations of themselves.
Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition
Patricia Carolin Mai choreography
Lucas Gutierrez video
Stefan Britze set design
Felina Levits costumes
Diego Muhr lighting
Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou electronics
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro
with guests Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung
Text Assistance: Michael Brailey
Choreographish Assistance: Lise Herdam, Ines Assoual
Production Mangament: Elisabeth Brunmayr
Production Assistance: Mirella Frenzel
Technical Coordination: Dennis Nähr
A Decoder Ensemble production, Co-produced by IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
With generous support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as well as Elbkulturfonds der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Impuls neue Musik, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, LICHTHOF Stiftung, Goethe Institut Paris, avec le soutien du réseau ULYSSES.
In cooperation with the LICHTHOF Theater as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Kampnagel Hamburg
21.12.2022. 20:00, Resonanzraum Hamburg
World Premiere of the new opera „Unzeitiger Guest“ from Andrej Koroliov, Heinrich Horwitz and the Decoder Ensemble
In „Unzeitiger Gast“ the Team, together with the Decoder Ensemble, explores formally the historical „Mystery Plays“, transforming them into a contemporary, multimedia and installative intoxication of sound. The focus is on the finiteness of human existence – a topic often suppressed in our society. In various reenactments, individual moments are considered and relived. The cross-genre team takes its cue from dances of death (the earliest multimedia works of art in which painting, poetry, and music were combined) or from the so-called „Dancing Mania“ (a phenomenon of the early modern period), an ecstactic and fatal attack of dancing that lasted for days.
The room itself becomes a performer, through a powerful use of visual art, light and dance, in this deadly game.
The audience is invited to roam through the different spaces and times, celebrating their own morality – or even trying to cheat together with the others in a futuristic scenario.
Cast:
Andrej Koroliov, Composition/Concept Heinrich Horwitz, Directing/Concept
Nina Divitschek, Costume
Ricarda Schnoor, Light
Annett Hardegen Dramaturgie
Elisabeth Brunmayr, Production
Kallia Kefala, Directing and Costume Assistant
Decoder Ensemble:
Sonja Lena Schmid
Carola Schaal
Leopold Hurt
Jonathan Shapiro
Andrej Koroliov
Alexander Schubert
Maria Walser, Dancer
Nina Guo + Kinga Ötvös, Voices
Gefördert durch: Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien und Neustart Kultur
Media Partner: Byte FM
07.07.2022. 00:00, Nürnberg
DREAMS* is a collaboration between Heinrich Horwitz, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro, Iggy Malmborg, Shlomi Moto Wagner and DJ Baby and will be on view at ZBau in Nuremberg from 07 – 10.07.2022, as part of the music installation. Heinrich Horwitz, director*, choreographer* and actor* from Berlin and Hamburg’s Decoder Ensemble have been working closely together since 2017. For DREAMS* they collaborate with an international team, with whom they create a cross-genre performance that ventures into artistic in-between worlds. Defined by historical half-beings and musical cyborgs that „queer“ the history of Nuremberg. Transformation, lucid dreaming, midsummer nights and a pleasant loss of time will accompany us through these endless new worlds. DREAMS* lures us into the garden of Nuremberg’s Z-Bau, a magical place for concerts and club nights that shines in a new light.
https://www.musikinstallationen.com/de/projekte/heinrich-horwitz-decoder-ensemble
06.05.2022. 18:15
Weltpremiere des Filmes von Heinrich Horwitz * Sarah Nemtsov * Rosa Wernecke
Das Leben nimmt viele Formen an, es rast voran, es windet sich durch Stromschnellen hindurch, springt bergauf und klettert bergab. Es bricht hinein und wummert tief. Es verliert sich und erstickt unter der Hitze der Welt. In Roses for my Funeral tanzt Maria Walser, begleitet durch das Decoder Ensemble durch diese Leben, nimmt es viel zu ernst und auf die leichte Schulter. Die Musik verführt jeden Augenblick in eine neuen Winkel dieses Schauspiels, während die Bilder miteinander um die Wette laufen.
Roses for my Funeral * a journey regarding death
Heinrich Horwitz * Concept, Choreography
Sarah Nemtsov * Concept, Composition
Rosa Wernecke * Concept, Videography
Decoder Ensemble
Sonja Lena Schmid * Cello, Objects, Performance
Leopold Hurt * Zither, Monotron, Objects, Performance
Jonathan Shapiro * Drums & Percussion, Monotron, Objects, Performance
Sebastian Berweck * Piano, Keyboard, Toypiano, Objects
Maria Walser * Dance
Heinrich Horwitz * 2nd Piano and Voice in MOTH
Trixie * Dog
Tür (2020) for pseudo drum set solo
MOTH (2020/21) for prepared piano with assistant,
cello, e zither and actor (on a second piano)
– reciting a text by Virginia Woolf
Seven Thoughts (2018) for keyboard solo with voice
– poem by Anne Sexton
© by G. Ricordi Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
Schwelle (2019/2020) for acoustic discant zither and cello
– based on the chorale „Komm, O Tod, du Schlafes Bruder“
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Kammer (2020) for amplified toypiano with
mini keyboard and two assistants (monotrons)
Wolfsgesänge (2019) for amplified cello and tape
– in memoriam Wolfgang Zamastil
© by G. Ricordi Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
to the beyond (2018) for 4 performers
with objects and amplification
Seven Colours (2018) movements I-IV for amplified ensemble:
cello with distortion pedal,
e bass (transcription for bass e-zither by Leopold Hurt),
prepared piano with sample keyboard and drum set
I: umber, burnt sienna II: raw sienna, ochre
III: sepia IV: carbon black
© by G. Ricordi Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH
A Project by
DECODER
Musikaufnahme 2021
Deutschlandfunk Köln
Ton: Robert Schneider
Redaktion: Frank Kämpfer
Special Thanks to:
Ballhaus Ost Berlin
Deutschlandfunk Köln
Elisabeth Brunmayr
Jeanette Heisig
Noam Brusilovsky
Studio Feuerfest
Theaterhaus Mitte
Zadig Buchhandlung Berlin
11.06.2022. 20:30
ANIMA™
ANIMA™ is a performative experimental setting that utilizes the tools of artificial intelligence in order to question the human constructivist perception and the formation of identity. ANIMA™ is a fictional spiritual institution where performers engage in intoxicating interactions with variations of themselves.
Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition
Patricia Carolin Mai choreography
Alexander Giesche outside eye
Lucas Gutierrez video
Stefan Britze set design
Felina Levits costumes
Diego Muhr lighting
Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli sound diffusion
Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling IRCAM-STMS scientific collaboration (Musical Representations team – ACIDS)
Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung actors
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro
Text Assistance: Michael Brailey
Choreographish Assistance: Lise Herdam, Ines Assoual
Production Mangament: Elisabeth Brunmayr
Production Assistance: Mirella Frenzel
Technical Coordination: Dennis Nähr
A Decoder Ensemble production, Co-produced by IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
With generous support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as well as Elbkulturfonds der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Impuls neue Musik, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, LICHTHOF Stiftung, Goethe Institut Paris, avec le soutien du réseau ULYSSES.
In cooperation with the LICHTHOF Theater as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Kampnagel Hamburg
20.03.2022. 18:00
ANIMA™
ANIMA™ is a performative experimental setting that utilizes the tools of artificial intelligence in order to question the human constructivist perception and the formation of identity. ANIMA™ is a fictional spiritual institution where performers engage in intoxicating interactions with variations of themselves.
Alexander Schubert artistic direction, composition
Patricia Carolin Mai choreography
Alexander Giesche outside eye
Lucas Gutierrez video
Stefan Britze set design
Felina Levits costumes
Diego Muhr lighting
Thomas Goepfer, Dionysios Papanicolaou IRCAM electronics
Luca Bagnoli sound diffusion
Antoine Caillon, Philippe Esling IRCAM-STMS scientific collaboration (Musical Representations team – ACIDS)
Guy Marsan, So-Ying Fung actors
Decoder Ensemble
Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Carola Schaal, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro
Text Assistance: Michael Brailey
Choreographish Assistance: Lise Herdam, Ines Assoual
Production Mangament: Elisabeth Brunmayr
Production Assistance: Mirella Frenzel
Technical Coordination: Dennis Nähr
A Decoder Ensemble production, Co-produced by IRCAM- Centre Pompidou
With generous support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as well as Elbkulturfonds der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Impuls neue Musik, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, LICHTHOF Stiftung, Goethe Institut Paris, avec le soutien du réseau ULYSSES.
In cooperation with the LICHTHOF Theater as well as the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and Kampnagel Hamburg
11.12.2021. 19:00
10 Years Decoder Anniversary Party
Video selections from
„Roses for my Funeral“ (2021, Sarah Nemtsov/Heinrich Horwitz/Rosa Wernecke),
„Film 1″ (2017) from Johannes Kreidler
10 Years Decoder Documentary Film from Stephanie Schiller.
with support from
21.11.2021. 21:05
Tune in Deutschlandfunk Radio this Sunday, 21st of November at 21:05 for the radio play version of Sarah Nemtsov’s „Roses for my Funeral“ with Decoder Ensemble, Heinrich Horwitz and Sebastian Berweck as part of Deutschlandfunk’s „Forum Neuer Musik“ Festival, moderated by Leonie Reineke.
We thank our fundings:
Kompositionsauftrag von: Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Musikfonds e.V.
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Fotocredit: Rosa Wernecke
17.12.2021. 21:00
concert cancelled
Decoder @numu – Neue und ungedeckte Musik in Baden (CH)
Mit:
Carola Schaal, Clarinete
Jonathan Shapiro, Percussion
Alexander Schubert, Light, Sound and Elektronics
In der Aktionshalle Stanzerei, Merker-Areal
Bruggerstrasse 37
5400 Baden
01.12.2021. 20:00
Dissociated Press is a series of compositions by Leopold Hurt continuously added to as a work-in-progress since 2017. Here instrumentation ranges from solo pieces featuring electronics through to a septet – specially conceived for the characteristic line-up of Decoder Ensemble. The term Dissociated Press refers to an Internet algorithm for the automatic generation of texts on the basis of language patterns. Derived from this the cycle unites different approaches to the “Remix” principle, a genre term that is defining for art in the digital age. This principle is applied both on the language and musical level, as a constant interplay between the original, the copy and the “fake”. Each individual composition is paired with electronic audio and video feeds that create multimedia references to the algorithms and uninterrupted data flows. The individual parts can be played in any desired order one after each other or simultaneously. Thus, the solo pieces are performed in different rooms within the location, each with a limited number of spectators. The individual groups of listeners “wander” in a coordinated fashion through the rooms and experience the individual works one after another. Duo and ensemble pieces are then compiled into a live stream: the performing partner musicians are then broadcast in the individual rooms symbiotically. This means each group of listeners can experience the interplay as a combination of live performance and live stream. The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is enabling the performances of the new works by Dissociated Press.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von:
04.11.2021. 20:00
The Followers of Ø – (World Premiere)
Trond Reinholdtsen & The Norwegian Opra (NO)/ Decoder Ensemble (DE)
Music Theatre
Commissioned by HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts for TONLAGEN – 30th Dresden Festival of Contemporary Music
TONLAGEN is supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen.
24.09.2021. 20:00, Theater im Pumpenhaus
Pre-premiere
Sarah Nemtsov – „Roses for my funeral”
Sarah Nemtsov, Konzept,Komposition
Heinrich Horwitz, Mitarbeit Konzept, Dramaturgie, Video
Rosa Wernecke, Lichtdesign, Video
Maximiliano Estudies, Klangregie
Decoder Ensemble
Sonja Lena Schmid, Violoncello
Leopold Hurt, Zither, E-Zither
Sebastian Berweck, Klavier, Keyboard
Jonathan Shapiro, Schlagzeug
Der Kompositionsauftrag von Sarah Nemtsov gefördert von
29.10.2021. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
We are celebrating our 10th anniversary as part of our „Below Deck“ series at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. We have commisioned new works from Jessie Marino, Rojin Sharafi and our own Alexander Schubert. Aside from the new gems, we will presenting some of our favorite repertoire from the last 10 years with works from Brigitta Muntendorf, Leopold Hurt and Andrej Koroliov.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR recovery programme.
Fotocredit: Gerhard Kühne
13.08.2021. 19:00, Hamburg
Decoder plays works by Michael Maierhof, Jessie Marino, Alexander Schubert, Andrej Koroliov and Leopold Hurt
20.01.2021. 20:00
Decoder, with special guest Heinrich Horwitz, is excited to be concertizing again, kicking off the 2021 Klub Katarakt festival in Hamburg’s Kampnagel with the world premiere of the complete cycle of Leopold Hurt’s Dissociated Press:
Dissociated Press is a series of compositions by Leopold Hurt continuously added to as a work-in-progress since 2017. Here instrumentation ranges from solo pieces featuring electronics through to a septet – specially conceived for the characteristic line-up of Decoder Ensemble. The term Dissociated Press refers to an Internet algorithm for the automatic generation of texts on the basis of language patterns. Derived from this the cycle unites different approaches to the “Remix” principle, a genre term that is defining for art in the digital age. This principle is applied both on the language and musical level, as a constant interplay between the original, the copy and the “fake”. Each individual composition is paired with electronic audio and video feeds that create multimedia references to the algorithms and uninterrupted data flows. The individual parts can be played in any desired order one after each other or simultaneously. Thus, the solo pieces are performed in different rooms within the location, each with a limited number of spectators. The individual groups of listeners “wander” in a coordinated fashion through the rooms and experience the individual works one after another. Duo and ensemble pieces are then compiled into a live stream: the performing partner musicians are then broadcast in the individual rooms symbiotically. This means each group of listeners can experience the interplay as a combination of live performance and live stream. The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation is enabling the performances of the new works by Dissociated Press.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von:
02.09.2020. 20:30, Boothaus Ulm
Decoder plays works from the Decoder „house“ composers (Alexander Schubert, Leopold Hurt and Andrej Koroliov) in its first outdoor concert ever!
15.04.2020. 20:00, Project Arts Centre Dublin
Photo by Gerhard Kühne
In Decoder’s first trip to Dublin, they present works by Alexander Schubert, Andrej Koroliov, Leopold Hurt and Jessie Marino
03.05.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
02.05.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
01.05.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
30.04.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
29.04.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
28.04.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
27.04.2020. 00:00, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Decoder performs Alexander Schubert’s „Genesis“ at the Elbphilharmonie’s International Music Festival
03.04.2020. 00:00, Deutschlandfunk
More Information TBA
28.05.2020. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Curated by Trond Reinholdtsen
More Information TBA
10.03.2020. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Curated by Popebama (Dennis Sullivan and Erin Rogers)
10.01.2020. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
In the 7th edition of Decoder’s „Unterdeck“ at the Elbphilharmonie, Michael Beil curates an audio/visual extravaganza exploring composers who are utilizing the newest techniques in creating exciting works for live video, electronics and ensemble. The program consists of Beil’s own „Caravan“, the electronic and visual noise art work „Table Talk“ from Andreas Eduardo Frank, „Miraging“ from Emilio Guim, and a special collaboration between Decoder’s Carola Schaal with the Berlin based DJ Mieko Suzuki and video Artist Claudia Rohrmoser.
06.11.2019. 21:15, Grand Theater Groningen
Decoder plays a portrait concert of Alexander Schubert at the 2019 edition of the Sounds of Music festival in Groningen with the works Serious Smile, Sensate Focus, Hello and Not an Easy Situation.
25.10.2019. 20:00
Decoder plays at the 10th edition of the SinusTon Festival (Magdeburg Days of Dlectro-Acoustic Music), performing works by Alexander Schubert, Erin Rogers, Malte Giesen and more.
More Information TBA
08.06.2019. 20:00, Künstlerhaus Faktor
© David Campensino / Javier Sobremazas
Decoder presents solos and duos including the World Premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s „RED“ for Cello and Video as well as works by Leopold Hurt, Levy Lorenzo, Sarah Nemtsov and Matthias Kaul.
12.05.2019. 11:30, Kampnagel Hamburg DE
In cooperation with KinderKinder e.V. Decoder presents experimental interactive concerts for youths. The participants have the chance to experience three different rooms where they interact and create music together with the members of Decoder based on works from Michael Beil, Pedro Gonzales Fernandez and Jonathan Shapiro
Performances begin at:
11.May.2019
14:00
15:15
16:30
12.May.2019
11:30
14:30
16:00
11.05.2019. 14:00, Kampnagel Hamburg DE
In cooperation with KinderKinder e.V. Decoder presents experimental interactive concerts for youths. The participants have the chance to experience three different rooms where they interact and create music together with the members of Decoder based on works from Michael Beil, Pedro Gonzales Fernandez and Jonathan Shapiro
Performances begin at:
11.May.2019
14:00
15:15
16:30
12.May.2019
11:30
14:30
16:00
29.05.2019. 21:00, MUCCA – Munich Center of Community Arts
Co-Presented by Trugschluss and the aDevantgarde Festival, with the support of the Siemens Stiftung, Decoder premieres new works composed by resident composer Leopold Hurt and guest composer Hannes Seidl (with films from Daniel Kötter) as part of the 20th Anniversary of the music publisher Edition Juliane Klein. In addition to the premieres Decoder performs classic works from the composers, including Hurt’s „Five Minutes Or Less“ and Seidl’s „Mixtape“,
15.02.2019. 20:30
Composer Sarah Nemtsov (b. 1980) impresses with her unique, sensitively sounded-out set-ups in which her highly complex music occupies a space worlds away from familiar interpretative patterns. In terms of subject matter, Nemtsov deals with existential questions of existence and the vivid expression of extreme life experiences. Working with the Decoder Ensemble, the composer sets off in search of appropriate forms in which to depict human fates in sound.
26.03.2019. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
CUTTING-PATTERNS
A corn field, in the background, train tracks. A man enters the picture and looks at the audience, a train rushing by. Cut. Four mixing consoles pulsate in self-oscillation. Cut. The sounds and movements of the cello break up into a kaleidoscope of velocities a hit is dissected to the very basics of its suppressed excess, cut through the middle, interrupted by a strobe-lit, distant approximation of an icon. Cut.
In the evening curated by the filmmaker Daniel Kötter and the composer Hannes Seidl, the Decoder Ensemble plays volatile, interruptive, with hard contrasts and slight shifts.
Cutting between seeing and hearing, concert and cinema, inside and outside, approach and distance. Cut
07.12.2018. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Unterdeck IV, „Entities“
curated by Heinrich Horwitz
Entity describes the existent, the existing, a thing, the essence of an object, the element necessary for its identity. The entity takes place, it is complete, it needs neither a name nor a label to be visible or define itself. It can be a vague idea or a concrete idea.
This evening we are looking for the entities of the musicians, the audience, the lobby, and the hall. The instruments, the architecture, the body and also the music, the expression are equally at the center of the inquiry. The heterogeneity of the entities is not an obstacle, but on the contrary highlighting it is the goal of the evening. Attempting to meet in diversity is the challenge.
14.11.2018. 19:00
Forum Young Composers: Andrej Koroliov
Decoder Performs works by Andrej Koroliov (WP), Leopold Hurt, Alexander Schubert and Levy Lorenzo
18.11.2018. 16:00, Schloss Biesdorf
Decoder performs for the first time at Berlin’s Pyramidale Festival, playing works by Johannes Kreidler, Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Donny Karsadi and Martin Daske (WP)
11.11.2018. 18:00, Festspielhaus Hellerau
#AsPresentAsPossible
Curated by: Brigitta Muntendorf
#AsPresentAsPossible – an homage to the “Bang”! The Decoder Ensemble and Brigitta Muntendorf invite all to a transmedia happening, where the significance of corporal presence intertwines with concepts of physical and virtual existence in the events occupying all areas of the concert room. With the music of Michael Beil, Jessie Marino, Brigitta Muntendorf, Fat Boy Slim, Josh Spear and interludes drawing upon the Youtube/street musicians “Too Many Zooz”, #AsPresentAsPossible is constantly exploring the space between music, theater, and video amidst real and virtual “thereness”. Through the collaboration with the choreographer Heinrich Horwitz, one witnesses how the Decoder Ensemble encounters a new side of performance culture. Here, physicality and reality, and the perception of those, confronts the musical interpretation. How present can we, and do we want to be? When do we transcend into presence through the very mediums that should make us invisible?
18.10.2018. 21:00, Resonanzraum Hamburg DE
Exploring the works of kindred spirits from across the pond, Decoder features New York based composers in a concert dedicated to the city that „never sleeps“.
World Premieres from Tristan Perich, Dennis Sullivan and Erin Rogers as well as existing works from Natacha Diels, Sam Pluta and more!
04.10.2018. 20:30, Cité de la musique et de la dans
Decoder performs a portrait concert of Alexander Schubert’s works including F1, Point Ones, Sensate Focus and the world premiere of Acceptance at the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, France
20:30 Cité de la musique et de la dans, 1 Pl. Dauphine, 67076 Strasbourg, France
22.09.2018. 13:00, Gamle Museet for samtidskunst - Nasjonalmuseet
Alexander Schubert: Control (WP)
Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Gamle Museet for samtidskunst – Nasjonalmuseet (Bankplassen 4), Oslo
21/9 17:00 + 22/9 13:00
Ticket: 250/150 NOK (participant) / 100 NOK (observer)
German composer Alexander Schubert presents a new concert installation that drags audience members into a closed system of manipulation and surveillance. Control is a participatory experience which takes place in various spaces in the cellars of an old bank building Oslo.
Each presentation involves a small audience group and several members of the Decoder Ensemble. During any presentation, the audience moves through different phases dealing with different setups of control, surveillance and virtuality.
Control works on numerous levels: breaking down the barrier between public and performer; placing them in situations where virtual reality can be deceptive; and forcing a remote interaction between participants. Audience members become part of the mechanism of control, altering the subject matter but becoming complicit in a hierarchical system.
21.09.2018. 17:00, Gamle Museet for samtidskunst - Nasjonalmuseet
Alexander Schubert: Control (WP)
Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
Gamle Museet for samtidskunst – Nasjonalmuseet (Bankplassen 4), Oslo
21/9 17:00 + 22/9 13:00
Ticket: 250/150 NOK (participant) / 100 NOK (observer)
German composer Alexander Schubert presents a new concert installation that drags audience members into a closed system of manipulation and surveillance. Control is a participatory experience which takes place in various spaces in the cellars of an old bank building Oslo.
Each presentation involves a small audience group and several members of the Decoder Ensemble. During any presentation, the audience moves through different phases dealing with different setups of control, surveillance and virtuality.
Control works on numerous levels: breaking down the barrier between public and performer; placing them in situations where virtual reality can be deceptive; and forcing a remote interaction between participants. Audience members become part of the mechanism of control, altering the subject matter but becoming complicit in a hierarchical system.
13.05.2018. 00:00
more info TBA
25.05.2018. 20:00, Künstlerhaus Faktor
“Silent Posts” is a concept piece by Alexander Schubert. Within its framework there are several source pieces which serve as starting points for artists and musicians to interpret and to make new versions of. This work can be interpreted and adapted by any kind of artist – ranging from musicians, performers, writers, video artists to chefs.
The artist (or artist group) can choose a source piece (provided by the composer) as a starting point or another Silent Post version that some other artist has created before him. It is basically a concept where the versions evolve, as in a family tree.
The artist interprets the previous version following a set of loose guidelines, which are described in the score. Aside from that he can also make individual changes in the piece based on a set of tools.
http://silent-posts.net/
New versions by:
Toon Callier
Charlotte Bösling
Robert Weiss
Ulli Bassenge
Olivia Newton John
Lucia Kilger
Frau Kraushaar
Victor Barceló
Seth Shafer
Incite
Niklas Seidl
Gustavo Chab
Bjørn Erik Haugen – „Reenacment / Microphone“
Reenactment is a restaging or recreation of an earlier event. To enact is to do or make something, and to reenact is to do it again. A reenactment is the action of performing a new version of an old event, usually in a theatrical performance. If you’re interested in history, you might enjoy watching a reenactment of a major battle or speech. In a reenactment, people try to get the details as close to the original as possible. Doing reenactments is a hands-on way to learn and celebrate history.
Microphone is an electric device that amplifies the sound of a voice or instrument. If you’re going to stand up in front of a large crowd and want to be heard, you better use a microphone.
Microphones require electricity and amplifiers to work — what they do is take a sound and convert it into an electrical signal. That signal can then be amplified and sent to a speaker or recorded. Performers can sing softly into a microphone and still be heard clearly by an audience member at the very back of a huge concert hall.
http://www.vamh.de/index.php?what=blurred_edges&year=2018&gig=3522
03.06.2018. 20:00, Koncertkirchen Copenhagen
“Silent Posts” is a concept piece by Alexander Schubert. Within its framework there are several source pieces which serve as starting points for artists and musicians to interpret and to make new versions of. This work can be interpreted and adapted by any kind of artist – ranging from musicians, performers, writers, video artists to chefs.
The artist (or artist group) can choose a source piece (provided by the composer) as a starting point or another Silent Post version that some other artist has created before him. It is basically a concept where the versions evolve, as in a family tree.
The artist interprets the previous version following a set of loose guidelines, which are described in the score. Aside from that he can also make individual changes in the piece based on a set of tools.
http://silent-posts.net/
New versions by:
Jonathan Shapiro
Lucia Kilger
Niklas Seidl
Evy Schubert
Olivia Newton John
Pedro Gonzales Fernandez
Seth Shafer
and more….
Bjørn Erik Haugen – „Reenacment / Microphone“
Reenactment is a restaging or recreation of an earlier event. To enact is to do or make something, and to reenact is to do it again. A reenactment is the action of performing a new version of an old event, usually in a theatrical performance. If you’re interested in history, you might enjoy watching a reenactment of a major battle or speech. In a reenactment, people try to get the details as close to the original as possible. Doing reenactments is a hands-on way to learn and celebrate history.
Microphone is an electric device that amplifies the sound of a voice or instrument. If you’re going to stand up in front of a large crowd and want to be heard, you better use a microphone.
Microphones require electricity and amplifiers to work — what they do is take a sound and convert it into an electrical signal. That signal can then be amplified and sent to a speaker or recorded. Performers can sing softly into a microphone and still be heard clearly by an audience member at the very back of a huge concert hall.
29.05.2018. 20:00, Orangerie Herrenhausen
The Way Sounds Go
a staged concert by Simon Steen-Andersen and the Decoder Ensemble
Centred around three new ensemble-specific versions of the video work “Run Time Error”, Steen-Andersen weaves together a staged concert event, combining music, video, light and performance. „Run Time Error“, „Asthma“, Steen-Andersen’s most recent piece, and excerpts from his music theatre work “If This Then That And Now What” offer alternative perspectives on everyday objects and activities like walking and running, opening and closing doors as well as exploring rube-goldberg-contraptions, ritualistic repetitions and found film footage. This builds a natural bridge to two ‘classic’ video works by Martin Arnold (“Pièce Touché”, 1989) and Fischli/Weiss (“Lauf der Dinge / The Way Things Go”, 1987), where similar elements play a central role and which could be seen as predecessors to a work like “Run Time Error”.
06.05.2018. 19:00, Abne Scene Aarhus
The Way Sounds Go
a staged concert by Simon Steen-Andersen and the Decoder Ensemble
Centred around three new ensemble-specific versions of the video work “Run Time Error”, Steen-Andersen weaves together a staged concert event, combining music, video, light and performance. „Run Time Error“, „Asthma“, Steen-Andersen’s most recent piece, and excerpts from his music theatre work “If This Then That And Now What” offer alternative perspectives on everyday objects and activities like walking and running, opening and closing doors as well as exploring rube-goldberg-contraptions, ritualistic repetitions and found film footage. This builds a natural bridge to two ‘classic’ video works by Martin Arnold (“Pièce Touché”, 1989) and Fischli/Weiss (“Lauf der Dinge / The Way Things Go”, 1987), where similar elements play a central role and which could be seen as predecessors to a work like “Run Time Error”.
04.05.2018. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
The Way Sounds Go
a staged concert by Simon Steen-Andersen and the Decoder Ensemble
Centred around three new ensemble-specific versions of the video work “Run Time Error”, Steen-Andersen weaves together a staged concert event, combining music, video, light and performance. „Run Time Error“, „Asthma“, Steen-Andersen’s most recent piece, and excerpts from his music theatre work “If This Then That And Now What” offer alternative perspectives on everyday objects and activities like walking and running, opening and closing doors as well as exploring rube-goldberg-contraptions, ritualistic repetitions and found film footage. This builds a natural bridge to two ‘classic’ video works by Martin Arnold (“Pièce Touché”, 1989) and Fischli/Weiss (“Lauf der Dinge / The Way Things Go”, 1987), where similar elements play a central role and which could be seen as predecessors to a work like “Run Time Error”.
16.02.2018. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Poet and spoken-word performer Nora Gomringer, who won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2015, stands for the spoken word in verse like hardly any other contemporary author. In this programme, she enters into a dialogue with the musicians of the Decoder Ensemble and evolves a conversation in the realm between word and sound: lively, dynamic, tongue-in-cheek and perfectly suited even to people who can’t stand poetry!
01.12.2017. 20:30, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
#AsPresentAsPossible – an homage to the “Bang”! With a glimpse from the Elbphilharmonie, the Decoder Ensemble and Brigitta Muntendorf invite all to a transmedia happening, where the significance of corporal presence intertwines with concepts of physical and virtual existence in the events occupying all areas of the concert room. With the music of Michael Beil, Jessie Marino, Brigitta Muntendorf (WP), Fat Boy Slim, Josh Spear and interludes drawing upon the Youtube/street musicians “Too Many Zooz”, #AsPresentAsPossible is constantly exploring the space between music, theater, and video amidst real and virtual “thereness”. Through the collaboration with the choreographer Miriam Heinrich Horwitz, one witnesses how the Decoder Ensemble encounters a new side of performance culture. Here, physicality and reality, and the perception of those, confronts the musical interpretation. How present can we, and do we want to be? When do we transcend into presence through the very mediums that should make us invisible?
01.09.2017. 21:00, Resonanzraum Hamburg DE
