iris ter schiphorst

HYPER-DUB (2019/2022) – 11'

for voice, ensemble and sampler (all amplified)
Text: Dirk von Lowtzow

WP: 15.10.2022, Donaueschingen Music Days, Barsporthalle

Assange - Fragmente einer Unzeit (Assange - Fragments of an untimely time) (2019) – 20'

for female voice, large ensemble and sampler (amplified)

WP: 07.11.2019, Muziekgebouw aan't IJ, Amsterdam

Suggestion of least resistance (2018) – 6'

Music for the animated film by Michelle & Uri Kranot
for large ensemble (amplified), sampler and video

WP: 08.02.2019, Stuttgart, Theaterhaus/T1 Eclat Festival, as part of the 'Happiness Machine' programme

KONZEPTE zu FLÄCHE(N), z. B. "Sinnflächen verschenken" (CONCEPTS on SPACE(S), e.g. "Gifting spaces of significance") (2016/2017) – ad libitum'

for (amateur) choir, (amateur) ensemble and other artists
(from the series 'JEDER/dialogic composing')

WP: 25 March 2017, Upgrade Stimme, Donauhalle 2, Donaueschingen

SOMETIMES II (2016/2017) – ca. 7'

for amplified ensemble, sampler, 2-4 thunderbolts with transducers + live electronics
for Ernst Surberg and Bettina Wackernagel

WP: 08.07.2017, Radialsystem-Berlin

Welcome to all the pleasures: TISA VISA WiTiO ZETA NAFTA TiTiAiPi (weiss ich doch nicht, was die Kunst kann…)! (Welcome to all the pleasures: TISA VISA WiTiO ZETA NAFTA TiTiAiPi (how can I kwow what art can do...)!) (2014–2015) – 9'

for ensemble, countertenor in motion, feed, ghetto cluster and masks
after Henry Purcell (1659-1695, Orpheus Britannicus, from "Welcome to all the pleisures: Here the deities approve...")

WP: 23.01.2015, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Berlin-Kreuzberg (Festival Ultraschall)

NOISE (2014) – ca 50'

NOISE – An attempt at an encounter between Mongolian and European musicians as a form of "alienation" – based on concepts by Iris ter Schiphorst and Uros Rojko

WP: 2014, Berlin, Radialsystem

The Fall of the House of Usher (2013/2014) – 13'

Music for the film of the same name by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber from 1928
for solo trumpet and large ensemble

WP: 11.02.2014, Zurich, Museum of Design

Klang-Erzählungen (Sound narratives) (2013) – 13'

for ensemble (amplified) and sampler

WP: 14.09.2013 Brunswick, Residenzschloss, Red Hall

Breaking (2012) – 15'

for amplified ensemble, sampler and live electronics

WP: 13.12.2012, Berghain/Berlin

AUNG (2010/2011) – 25'

for staged singer/performer, ensemble and live electronics
Text: Helga Utz

WP: 01.10.2011, The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Studio Hall, Kopenhagen

Der Grüffelo/Grüffelokind (The Gruffalo/Gruffelo child) (2010/2011) (with Stefan Lienenkämper) – 45'

based on the children's book of the same name by Julia Donaldson
for narrator and ensemble

WP: 19 June 2011, Philharmonie Berlin

Un chien andalou Musik (2009) – 15'

Music for the film 'Le chien andalou'  by Louis Bunuel and Salvatore Dali (1929)
for ensemble
dedicated to the Ensemble Ascolta

WP: 08.01.2010, Konzerthaus Berlin, Werner-Otto Saal

Zerstören (To Destroy) (2005/2006) – 10'

for 17 instruments, sampler and CD-accompaniments

WP: 05.05.2006 Theatersaal, Witten at the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik

A Little Madness in the spring (2004/2006) – 23'

for 18 instruments, electronics and video installation

based on a libretto by Paulo Tunhas
Composition of the visual part: Daniel Kötter

WP: 16. 09. 2006, Porto, Casa da musica

Aus Kindertagen: verloren (From childhood: lost) (2004/2005) – 22'

for 8 instruments and Cd-accompaniment
Text: I. ter Schiphorst, as well as quotations from the novel "Emilia gets into the turmoil of war or O the new day" by Karin Spielhofer

WP: 05.03.2005, Deutschlandfunk broadcasting hall, Cologne

La Coquille et le Clergyman (2004) – 40'

Music to the film of the same name by Germaine Dulac, 1928
for 12 instruments and Cd accompaniment

WP: 06.04.2005 Stadsschouwburg/Amsterdam as part of the Filmbiënnale of the Filmmuseum

Wie einen Wasserfisch (Like a water fish) (2003) – 14'

based on an old German ballad
for voice and ensemble

WP: 08 November 2003, Forbach (France)

My Sweet Latin Lover (2002) – 14'

for amplified flute, keyboard, 4 percussion instruments, 5 electric guitars (amplified)
Text by Iris ter Schiphorst, Thomas Moore ("To...") and William Blake ("The sick rose")

WP: 07.06.2002, München, Musica viva

rumgammeln+warten (bumming around+waiting) (2001) (with Helmut Oehring) – 23'

for one voice, one deaf soloist and ensemble
Text: ter Schiphorst/Oehring

WP: 07.11. 2001, Paul Sache Halle, Basel (European Cultural Month)

Der Ort ist nicht der Ort (The place is not the place) (2000) (with Helmut Oehring) – 70'

for instrumental ensemble, 1 deaf performer, 1 soprano, 1 soprano and live electronics

WP: 26 October 2000, EXPO Hanover 2000

Mischwesen – la tristesse durera (Composite beings - la tristesse durera) (1998) (with Helmut Oehring) – 20'

for a deaf performer, three trumpets and keyboard
based on the poem "Silence" by Anne Sexton and texts by Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring

WP: 21.11.1998, Kunstencentrum, Gent Festival November Music, Belgium/Netherlands

REQUIEM (1998) (with Helmut Oehring) – 55'

for 3 countertenors, 12 instruments and live electronics
freely based on the 9 psalms 'O Ye Tongues' from the 'Death Note Books' by Anne Sexton

WP: Opera National, Paris, Festival d'Automne

A. N. (evita-che guevara-madonna) (1998) (with Helmut Oehring) – 15'

for 2 voices, 8 instruments and live electronics

WP: 30 March 1998, Liège (Liège)

im VORMONAT (1998) (with Helmut Oehring) – 17'

for oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello and double bass

WP: 21 May 1998, Large Broadcasting Hall, Saarbrücken

Polaroid's melodrama (1996) (with Helmut Oehring) – 22'

for 1 deaf-mute, 1 soprano, 12 instruments and live electronics
Text: ter Schiphorst/Oehring

WP: 20.10.1996, Donaueschingen/Musiktage