Iris ter Schiphorst

Iris ter Schiphorst

Iris ter Schiphorst (born May 22, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a composer , pianist , author , bassist , drummer and keyboardist . She has emerged as a composer of ensemble compositions, orchestral works and music-theatrical pieces. Her breakthrough came in 1999 with Ballade for Orchestra: Hundred Point Zero . While the idea of ​​the closed work was increasingly disrupted in the 20th century, the traditional concept of the individual author function was hardly ever seriously questioned. In this respect, the exemplary collaboration with her temporary partner, the Berlin composer Helmut Oehring , is of great importance in a large number of co-productions.

biography

The desire to have children to become a dancer was thwarted by an illness. Her mother was a pianist and gave her first piano lessons. From 1973 to 1978 she first studied piano at the Bremen Music Academy. After numerous trips through Europe and Africa (1978-80) she played as a bassist, drummer and keyboard player in various rock groups, including in the Bremen women's band "Bruno und Paul". From 1986 she studied philosophy , theater studies and cultural studies at the Free University of Berlin and later at the Humboldt University . At the same time she attended composition courses with Dieter Schnebel and Luigi Nono as well as musicological seminars with Helga de la Motte-Haber . At the end of the 1980s she founded the Zeit-Musik association with Mayako Kubo , Frank Hilberg , Franz Martin Olbrisch and others . In 1990 the ensemble Intrors was founded, which specializes in live electronic music . From 1996 to 2001 she worked with her then partner, the Berlin composer Helmut Oehring.

Iris ter Schiphorst was elected as a new member of the Music Section at the spring general meeting of the Academy of the Arts Berlin on May 25, 2013. Since the 2015/16 winter semester, she has held a professorship for media composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In 2015 she received the renowned Heidelberg Artist Prize.

Works

Stage works

Operas

• 1993 Anna's Wake , 3D tape opera, live singer and 16mm film
• 2001 Effi Briest for deaf soloist, voices, soprano, solo trumpet, large ensemble and live electronics (Text: Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring based on Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane )
• 2002 Euridice - Scenes from the Underworld for a dancing vocalist, three singers / storytellers, dancers, small ensemble and electronics (Text: Karin Spielhofer )
• 2009 The Goose Girl , children's opera based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm (Text: Helga Utz)

Scenic compositions

• 1984 1055, the world is still all right for three spotlights, a dancer, a dancer and a couple
• 1991 Strings for tape and solo dancers
• 1992 e.g. Herz for synthesizer / sampler and performer
• 1995 The Eye of the Ear for 5 actors, bass clarinet and 8-track tape (Text: Karin Spielhofer)
• 1998 Mischwesen (la tristessa durera) for a deaf actress, 3 trumpets and sample keyboard (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• Bernada Albas Haus for 7 dancers, a deaf performer, a soprano, prepared piano / sample keyboard, electric guitar, double bass and live electronics (collaboration with Helmut Oehring)
• 2000 The place is not the place for an instrumental ensemble, a deaf performer, soprano, soprano and live electronics
• 2000 As if: SUITE music and dance project for dancers, electric guitars, 2 clarinets, piano, accordion, percussion and live electronics
• 2004 Allow, stranger, that I touch you for a mime, two instrumental ensembles, video projections and CD playback
• 2010 Passion 13 / melodrama for vocalist and orchestra
• 2011 Aung for singer / performer, ensemble and electronics
• 2012 Vergiss Salome , scene for coloratura soprano and tape

Vocal music

• 1985 Terrible for voice, three trumpets, electric guitar, electric bass and drums
• 1985 Postlude from Forgotten for mixed choir and percussion
• 1991 love vows for voice, flute, two violins and synthesizer / sampler
• 1993 Anna's Song for voice, violin, viola, cello and synthesizer / sampler
• 1994 Nightdances for 2 voices, 2 violins, electric bass and synthesizer / sampler
• 1994 Eiszeit for 2 voices, 2 flutes, violin, viola and synthesizer / sampler
• 1996 Polaroids melodrama for a deaf person, a soprano, 12 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 1997 Live (from Androgyn) for voice, violin, cello, prepared piano / sample keyboard and live electronics (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 1997 Silence Moves for voice, violin, cello, electric bass, prepared piano, playback tapes, video installation and live electronics (collaborative work with Helmut Oehring)
• 1997 Silence Moves II for voice, violin, cello, prepared piano / sample keyboard, electric guitar, electric bass, playback tapes and live electronics
• 1998 AN (evita-che guevara-madonna) for two voices, 8 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 1998 Requiem for 3 countertenors, 12 instruments and live electronics (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 2001 Gestures for 5 male voices, prepared piano / keyboard and tape
• 2001 rumgammeln + wait for a voice, a deaf soloist and instruments
• 2005 like a water fish for voice and instrumental ensemble
• 2005 Changeant for voice solo and CD playback ad libitum
• 2006 Permit, Fremdling ... for 2 instrumental ensembles and voice
• 2011 studies on figures for 7 voices and samplers
• 2012-13 SOS Odysseus for orchestra, children's choir, actor (together with Uros Rojko)
• 2014 ... my-no songs / the task of music for voice and ensemble
• 2014 Welcome to the pleasures: TISA VISA WiTiO ZETA NAFTA TiTiAiPi (I don't know what art can do ...)! for voice and ensemble
• 2015 On the beaches of calm ... "where the sun goes down" for voices and chamber orchestra, based on "How do I explain" by Nora Gomringer
• 2015 ZEICHENKASKADEN for singer with drum and two double bass clarinets
• 2017 The Imaginary after Lacan for actress, orchestra, sampler and live electronics

Instrumental music

For orchestra

• 2000 Hundred Point Zero Ballad for orchestra and sample keyboard
• 2002 Broken / Why don't you say a word? for orchestra and sample keyboard
• 2002 Symphony of a Big City for large orchestra (score for the film of the same name) (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 2006 Destroy II for orchestra (amplified)
• 2008-09 dislocations for orchestra and amplified piano
• 2010 sound puzzle for string orchestra
• 2015 “La tristesse durera ...” for chamber orchestra and sampler
• 2015 Sometimes for orchestra, sampler and solo piano
• 2015 Aus Liebe ... II for violin and string orchestra, based loosely on aria No. 49 from the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach
• 2016 Gravitational Waves for orchestra and electronics (together with Uros Rojko)
• 2017/18 EVERYONE for double bass clarinet, orchestra, samples and video (together with Uros Rojko)

Chamber music

• 1989 Minimal (e) String (s) z for 3 violins, cello, synthesizer / piano
• 1990 Ergo sum-pf-maschinerie for violin and synthesizer / sampler
• 1990 ballad for a bulldozer for violin and synthesizer / sampler
• 1990 she says destroy for violin and synthesizer / sampler
• 1990 Drowned for violin and synthesizer / sampler
• 1992 Eis for flute and synthesizer / sampler
• 1996 Eden Cinema for prepared piano and sampler
• 1996 Eden Cinema II for prepared piano and sampler
• 1997 PRAE-SENZ (Ballet blanc II) for violin, cello, prepared piano and sample keyboard (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 1998 In the previous month ... for 9 instruments (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 2001 Etius for electric guitars, 2 clarinets, piano, accordion, percussion and live electronics (joint work with Helmut Oehring)
• 2002 My Sweet Latin Lover for amplified flute with effects, 5 electric guitars, sample keyboard and 2 drummers
• 2002 My Sweet Latin Lover II for amplified flute, electric guitar and live electronics
• 2003 ... and Pommernland burned down for cor anglais, bass flute, bass clarinet and CD playback
• 2005 ... for electric guitar, prepared piano, sampler, violin, viola, string quartet and two CD players
• 2004-05 From Childhood: Lost for instrumental ensembles, electric guitar and CDs
• 2006 Destroy for Ensemble
• 2007 forgiven / fragments to Edgar Varèse for percussion, wind instruments and piano
• 2008 Miniatures for clarinet or violoncello and accordion
• 2010 Dislocations II for ensemble
• 2012 Breaking ... for chamber ensemble and electronics
• 2013 Aus Liebe ... for string quartet, freely based on Aria No. 49 from the St. Matthew Passion by JS Bach
• 2013 Klang-Erzählungen (from: dialogical composing) for ensemble

Solo works

• 1986 Closed world for prepared piano
• 2003 For accordion
• 2005 Hi Bill for bass clarinet solo
• 2005 Maybe yesterday for bass clarinet solo
• 2006-07 "No, Sir ..." for flute and Paetzold bass
• 2011-12 dead wire - Psychotechnics of Keyboards / a dissociative fugue for piano and sampler

Film and stage music

• 2002 Berlin: Symphony of a Big City (with Helmut Oehring) for large orchestra
• 2005 La Coquille et le Clergyman for 12 instruments and CD feeds
• 2009-10 Un chien andalou , music for the film by Bunuel, for ensemble
• 2011 Gruffalo , theater music for The Gruffalo based on the story of the same name by Julia Donaldson, for clarinet, horn, violin, cello, double bass, piano and puppet theater
• 2014 The Fall of the House of Usher , music for the silent film of the same name by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber (1928), for ensemble
• 2016 Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights , music for the play by Gertrude Stein

Installations / radio plays

• 1988 Inside-outside installation for walkmen and four-track tape
• 1989 Inside-outside II audio piece based on texts by Gertrude Stein
• 1989 What if the snake was a pig? Audio piece based on a text by Karin Spielhofer
• 1990 A corn sound installation for 16 mini speakers and four car recorders grows in my heart
• 1993 Engeltropfen audio piece based on a text by Karin Spielhofer

Discography

• Polaroids on CD documentation of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996 at Col legno.
• Live on CD Documentation Witten Days for New Chamber Music 1997 available from WDR 3 Cologne.
• Requiem on CD Documentation of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 1998 at Col legno.
• Poraroids on CD New Music in Germany 1950 - 2000 Sony / BMG B0001.
• Chamber music by Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring at Ars Musici 2000.
• Portrait of the composer by Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring at CYPRES 2000.
• Hi Bill with Volker Hemken at Profil / Hänssler 2005.
• Destroy with the Asko Ensemble under Hans Leenders on CD documentation of the WDR from Witten 2006.
• La Coquille et le Clergyman , film (DVD) with music: Asko Ensemble under Peter Rundel at arte / absolut MEDIEN 2007.
• Studies on figures with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart at NEOS 2011.

literature

From Iris ter Schiphorst

Lectures

• Iris ter Schiphorst: On the ear sense and nonsense / The view in music . Lecture at the West Berlin Academy of the Arts, MS, 1994.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: Musicology as Spiritual Science, or: The promise of SOUND . Lecture at the 9th International Congress on Women in Music, MS, 1995.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: Some remarks on the relationship between voice and writing , lecture at the Humboldt University Berlin, MS, 1997.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: The tacit interconnection of voice and writing , lecture at Galerie Waszkowiak Berlin, MS, 2000.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: Why a grant for women artists? Lecture given at the closing event at Künstlerhof Die Höge, MS, 2004.

Fonts

• Iris ter Schiphorst: Ohrsinn / Unsinn / Eigensinn - a short treatise on writing, In: Kommunikation und Ästhetik, Issue 101, June 1998.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: Touch. In: Positions 44, August 2000, pp. 37-39.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: Dimensions of the craft today. In: Positions 51, November 2002.
• Iris ter Schiphorst: composing today? Some remarks on the relationship between writing and music, modern / post-modern, new (mass) media ". In: Parergon (Norway), number 25/26, 2004.

About Iris ter Schiphorst

• Waltz, Yoreme: Article Iris ter Schiphorst . In: Approach IX - to seven female composers, Furore Edition 894.1998, pp. 108–126.
• Waltz, Yoreme: SchriftBild Musik - Postludium aus Vergessenem by Iris ter Schiphorst, Volume 29 / Issue 101, 1998, pp. 67–70.
• Waltz, Yoreme: About the collaboration between Iris ter Schiphorst and Helmut Oehring , 1998.
• Waltz, Yoreme: dance piece about the inanimate life , Bernarda Albas house by H. Oehring, I. ter Schiphorst and J. Schloemer. In: Positions 42.2000, pp. 60/61.
• Nauck, Gisela: Iris ter Schiphorst's orchestral ballad one hundred point zero . In: Positions 44.2000, pp. 45/46.
• Susanne Binas : Successful artists, works between culture and obstinacy , Essen 2003.
• Möller, Torsten; Stäbler, Gerhard; Shim, Kunsu (ed.): SoundVisions , Saarbrücken (Pfau-Verlag) 2005
• Nauck, Gisela: Disparate unity of sound, image, language and body . In: Program for the "Forum Neuer Musik", hosted by DeutschlandFunk Köln, Cologne 2005, pp. 14/15
• Möller, Torsten: Article Iris ter Schiphorst In: Contemporary composers.
• Susanne Binas: European Women Composers 2003

Web links

• Music and gender on the internet
• homepage Iris ter Schiphorst
• Iris ter Schiphorst's homepage at the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes
• Joint works with Helmut Oehring ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )