iris ter schiphorst

Ordnung und Struktur (Order and structure) (2022) – 11'

Miniatures for male voice (bass), bass clarinet and additional parts
after texts by May Kooreman (text composition: Iris ter Schiphorst)

WP: 14.10.2022, Donaueschingen, Donaueschingen Music Days, Topic: Parkinson's disease

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

ZEICHENKASKADEN II (2015/2016) – 9'

Version for singer (bass) with drum and 2 double bass clarinets

WP: 16.01.2016, Stuttgart, Theatre House, P1

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

ZEICHENKASKADEN (2015) – ca. 7'

for singer (bass) with drum and 4 double bass clarinets

WP: 04.09.2015, FÜNF PLUS FÜNF FESTIVAL, St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin Mitte

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

Aria für Solo-Sopran 2015 (Aria for solo soprano 2015) (2009) – 3'

from the music theatre 'AUNG' (2009), text: Helga Utz

Changeant (2004) – 12'

for voice and tape ad libitum, text: Karin Spielhofer

WP: 2005, Stockholm

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)

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)

Solo from 'rumgammeln und warten' (bumming around and waiting) (2001) (with Helmut Oehring) – 3'

Extraction of the solo for voice only

WP: 2015, Nuremberg portrait concert

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

Silence moves II (1997) (with Helmut Oehring) – 35'

for voice, violin, cello, prep. piano/sample keyboard, electric guitar, electric bass, tapes and live electronics

WP: 1997, Rom

Live (from Androgyn) (1997) (with Helmut Oehring) – 25'

18 songs after the poem 'Live' by Anne Sexton
for voice, violin, cello, prep. piano/ sample keyboard and live electronics

WP: 26.04.1997 Witten/Days for New Chamber Music

Live (from Androgyn) (1997) (with Helmut Oehring) – 25'

18 songs after the poem 'Live' by Anne Sexton
for voice, violin, cello, prep. piano/ sample keyboard and live electronics

WP: 26.04.1997 Witten/Days for New Chamber Music

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

Liebesgeschwüre (Vows of love) (1991) – 10'

for voice, flute, 2 violins, synth/sampler

WP: 1991, Berlin SO-36

Transformationen II (2022) – 9'

for 2 amplified high voices and fixed media
freely adapted from the poem 'Diepe tijd' ('Deep Time') by Dominique de Groen

WP: 12.11.2022, Düsseldorf, Neanderkirche

Le tremblement persistant du moi-fantôme... (2020) – 6'

pour Adrian Piper
for 6 female voices a capella
Libretto: Iris ter Schiphorst

WP: 21. 11. 2020, Philharmonie Paris, Le Studio

Studien zu Figuren/Serie A (Studies on figures/series A) (2010/2011) – 23'

for 7 amplified voices and sampler
dedicated to the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

WP: 16.10.2011, Donaueschingen, Donaueschingen Music Days

Gestures (2001) – 11'

for 5 male voices, prep. piano/keyboard and additional band
Text: Karin Spielhofer and Christine Daum

WP: 24 October 2001, Düsseldorf, Rheinische Kliniken Düsseldorf

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)

Anna's Song (1993) – 4'

from the opera 'ANNA's WAKE' (1992) - arrangement for 2 female voices, violin, viola+violoncello
Text: Christine Daum

Nightdances (1992) – 8'

für 2 Stimmen, 2 Violinen, E-Bass, Synth./Sampler

WP: 1994, Berlin

No Sir, we will not… (für Greta Thunberg) (2018/19) – 7'

for girls' choir
Text collage Iris ter Schiphorst

WP: UA: 19.5. 2019 Hannover, Hochschule, Festival ‚Unter dem Radar’

VOLK UNTER VERDACHT (PEOPLE UNDER SUSPICION) (2016/2017) – 90'

Documentary music theatre for a staged choir, interludes and video projections

WP: 14.12.2017, Berlin, Radialsystem

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

SOS - Odysseus (2012/2013) (with Uroš Rojko) – 50'

for orchestra, 2 actors and staged children's choirs
Libretto Helga Utz

WP: 8. 5. 2013, Philharmonie Köln