Matthias Schmelmer will perform Prélude, Vocalise et Variation for organ on the 7th of November at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Berlin within the frame of an organ recital including works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Samuel Barber. The concert starts at 4 p.m.

Christoph Enzel and I will perform a set of new pieces for saxophone, electric guitar and tape called Treffpunkte this Saturday at 7 p.m in Hauptbahnhof within the frame of the festival Ankunft: Neue Music.

More informations available at www.ohrenstrand.de

14 for soprano saxophone and electric guitar

Rotterdam for tenor saxophone and tape

Age Freerk Bokma will perform the Pastorale for Organ on the 15th of July at the Gedächtnis-Kirche in Berlin. The concert starts at 8 p.m.

After reading Gaspard de la Nuit by Aloysius Bertrand, I started composing a cycle of 5 pieces for carillons called Les Chants de Pierres (The songs of stone). It took several months and I never thought that the work would be played someday on a real carillion. Well, thanks to Jeffrey Bossin, it is going to be premiered this sunday at 3 p.m.

More informations here.

Marek Brandt and I will play a revised version of Le Dialogue des Sourds for guitar and computer this friday at 9 p.m in tmp.plate.

I will perform Les Chemins de Traverse on the 27th of March in Sowieso in Berlin and a new composition for electric guitar and laptop with Marek Brand (Laptop Orchester Berlin) on the 2nd of April in Potemka in Leipzig.

Christoph Enzel and Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach will perform together a new piece of mine called  Le Malentendu as a conclusion to their respective solo perfomances of tonight in the BKA Theater in Berlin. The concert starts at 8:30 p.m and the recording of the performance will be available on my homepage within the next days.

I have been performing solo shows in clubs, bars and art galleries since September 2009. It is a set of improvisations for electric guitar entitled Les Chemins de Traverse which enables me to bring several aspects of my work as a composer and as a guitarist to the stage. A entire concert recorded a few weeks ago in tmp.plate can be listened to on the “concerts” page.

I have composed and produced the soundtrack for Andreas Gräfenstein’s documentary entitled Eisern vereint which is about the soccer club 1. FC Union Berlin whose faithful supporters spent a year repairing and restoring the team’s stadium by themselves. It is a nice story about 200 guys prepared to do anything to save their team and it was a great pleasure to compose a bunch of heavy tracks for the picture.

You can listen to one of them called Eiserne Hoffnung (Hope of steel) in the Soundtracks section.

I will play two concerts this week, both consisting of prepared improvisations for electric guitar.

The first one is a performance with the painter Juliane Ebner and occurs on the 10th of september within the frame of Ohrenstrand at the Hauptbahnhof Berlin. Further informations here.

The second one is a solo gig and takes place on the 12th of september at Ex n’ Pop. Further informations here.

Doing solo performances based on improvisations has long interested me and it might be the beginning of something.