2024
KAFKAS METAMORPHOSEN
Album release at Gruenrkorder
gruenrekorder Soundart Series, GrDl226 Gruen Digital / LC09488 /GEMA
The music of the album KAFKAS METAMORPHOSEN was created for the dance theater piece of the same name by the renowned choreographer Irina Pauls at the Heidelberg Theater.
The album reflects the profound engagement with Kafka’s work and biography. His characteristic transitions from the real to the surreal are musically embodied by the transformation of sounds and noises of traditional classical instruments into captivating compositions and soundscapes using electronic effects and sound sources.
A central theme of KAFKAS METAMORPHOSEN is the close connection between Kafka’s life and his story „The Metamorphosis,“ which is seen as a grand metaphor and is certainly strongly tied to Kafka’s life and biography, with correspondences between characters in the story and members of Kafka’s family. The music thus reflects themes such as alienation, humiliation, family, escape, as well as guilt and redemption.
2022
WOMAN GIANT
Album release at Gruenrekorder Label
gruenrekorder Soundart Series, GrDl 210 | Gruen Digital / LC09488 / GEMA
The album WOMAN GIANT is a collaboration of Matthias Engelke with the Moradokmai Theatre Community from Thailand and combines Thai poetry of the 18th century, Thai myths and traditional Thai singing with modern electronics and sublime rhythms.
2022
ARIADNE
Single Release from upcoming album "ZEITFREI"
gruenrekorder Sound Art Series, Gruen 208 / LC 09488 / GEMA
ARIADNE is the first of three single releases from the new record “ZEITFREI” which features the Soprano Maraile Lichdi. The album will be released within the Sound Art Series of label “Gruenkekorder” in February 2022.
ZEITFREI
Release of the new album in February 2022 at Gruenrekorder Label
gruenrekorder Sound Art Series, Gruen 208 / LC 09488 / GEMA
In the original songs of the album ZEITFREI the mesmerizing timbre of the classical soprano voice of Maraile Lichdi interweaves with an acoustic and electronic world of sound.
The songs are characterized by the concept of the ambivalence of the temporal in music. In the lyrical, sketch-like texts, always vague and associative, the topics of transience, vanity, disorientation, loss of control, alienation, farewell, sorrow and finally the invincibility of time but also the resilience of man, are reflected in polarising musical levels. These poles are represented in the unstoppable and directed passages of time, to be heard on the one hand in melodies and melodic fragments and on the other in repetitive and ecstatic sound fields.
The inescapability of time is thereby confronted with the ancient desire of man, the utopian ideal of overcoming finiteness by overcoming time itself. The dream to be, and to stay, free of time.
2021
RESONANT DOWLAND
Songs for tenor and electronics
gruenrekorder Sound Art Series, Gruen 197 / LC 09488 / GEMA / EAN 195497263899
Resonant Dowland represents an individual and contemporary interpretation of the songs of Renaissance composer John Dowland. His songs, flying in from the past, become completely subjective by their full integration into an electronically generated world of sound where they are absorbed structurally, gesturally and sonically. This digital recomposition and the aura of Dowland`s songs meld together in a surprising, gentle and respectful, even symbiotic way. The resounding fragments from a mysterious past find their echo in the acoustic chamber of our present world, which receives them into its own digitally-processed musical space without endangering their centuries-old magical essence. Resonant Dowland connects a creative musician of the Elizabethan age, on the threshold of discovering musical individuality, with his colleague who, separated by centuries, lives in an age of digital absorption of sound, in music whose unequal layers shine iridescently through each other. The central idea of this electronic renaissance could be represented by the image of the palimpsest, the res facta of the past, that has seen several lives.
Nominated for "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" Q2 2021 (longlist)
