iris ter schiphorst

WAS WIRD HIER EIGENTLICH GESPIELT?!?! (What is actually being played here?!?!) (2022/2023) – 45'

Double biography of the 21st century
for singer-performer, voice, ensemble (all amplified), 2 thunderbolts/electronics and samples
Text: Felicitas Hoppe

WP: 21.10.2023, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donauhallen, Mozart-Saal; Motto: Cooperation

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

DAS IMAGINÄRE NACH LACAN (THE IMAGINARY ACCORDING TO LACAN) (2016/2017) – 25'

for singer/performer, large orchestra, additional parts and live electronics
Text: Helga Utz (based on poems from the Arab world, primarily from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic period)
Composition, samples + live electronics: Iris ter Schiphorst
Programming and sound direction: Wolfgang Musil

WP: 04.11. 2017, Konzerthaus, Great Hall, Vienna

JEDER (EVERYONE) (2016/2017) (with Uroš Rojko) – 24'

for amplified double bass clarinet solo, large orchestra, videos and samples
Concept, direction, composition: Iris ter Schiphorst & Uros Rojko

WP: 04.02.2018, Theatre House, T1, Stuttgart

An die Strände der Ruhe - wo die Sonne untergeht T (o the beaches of tranquillity - where the sun goes down) (2015) – 16'

for orchestra with masks, sampler + female voice,
based on the poem 'wie erklär ich' by Nora Gomringer, quotes from a speech by the mayor of Lampedusa from 2013, and a text fragment by Helga Utz

WP: 16 October 2015, Gewandhaus Leipzig

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)

meine-keine-lieder/die Aufgabe von Musik (my-no-songs/the task, the giving up of music) (2014) – 17'

for Inge Müller
for amplified female voice/performance, bass clarinet and piano/sample keyboard (1 player)

WP: 14. 03. 2015, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Concert Hall

Vergiss Salome (Forget Salome) (2012) – 7 Min.'

for singer/performer, feeds and light,
Text: Karin Spielhofer based on an idea by Iris ter Schiphorst

WP: Dec. 2013, NDR Studio, Hamburg

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

Passion 13 – Melodram (Passion 13 - Melodrama) (2010) – 22'

for staged vocalist, orchestra and interludes

WP: 04.09.2010 Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn Hall, Leipzig

Erlaube, Fremdling, dass ich dich berühre II (Allow me, stranger, to touch you II) (2004) – 55'

Music-theatrical suite for 2 instrumental ensembles, 1 actress, 1 singing performance artist, Cd-scores, live-electronics

for Franco Evangelisti

WP: 2005, Berlin, Kesselhaus der Kulturbrauerei

Changeant (2004) – 12'

for voice and tape ad libitum, text: Karin Spielhofer

WP: 2005, Stockholm

Erlaube, Fremdling, dass ich dich berühre (Allow me, stranger, to touch you) (2003) – 55'

A musical-theatrical ACTION in 4 parts by Iris ter Schiphorst
for 1 mime, 2 instrumental ensembles, video projections and Cd-playback
(freely adapted from the anagram of the same name by Unica Zürn from 1963)

WP: October 2004, Dresden, Festspielhaus Hellerau

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

Silence moves (1997) (with Helmut Oehring) – 60'

a kind of chamber opera for voice, violin, cello, electric bass, prep. piano/sampler, tapes, video installation and live electronics

WP: 12 October 1997 Dresden, small theatre

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