Stepha Schweiger

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Stepha Schweiger is a German composer , musician and singer . She was born in Regensburg and lives in Berlin . Her style can be assigned to experimental and electronic music , as well as post-punk . She also works with elements of musical theater . In her compositions she creates a distorted reality.

life and work

Schweiger learned to play the piano from the age of six, sang in the children's choir and attended dance school. In the 1980s she became interested in punk and new wave and performed with the band "Baby You Know" (then "The Sex Trash").

In 1991 she lived in New York and composed her piano work "Sp19ri9ng one" there. She studied musicology , philosophy and linguistics in Regensburg , later composition at the Berlin University of the Arts with Walter Zimmermann and as a master student with Gösta Neuwirth . At the same time she took up composition studies with Horatiu Radulescu . She studied piano with Cristian Petrescu and Larry Porter . From 2000 to 2003 she was selected for the annual courses at IRCAM Paris and the Institute of Sonology Conservatory in The Hague .

Since 2015 she has also appeared as a founding member of the Krautrock band “Girl on Catfish” with Manfred Schimchen, Robert “Pepe” Pöschl and Mäx Huber. Her work “ver.blich”, which she created at IRCAM Paris in 2001, was premiered in 2018 at the musikprotokoll in Styrian autumn Graz in a new version for the IKO loudspeaker of the Institute for Electronic Music Graz. In 2018, among others, Kurt Dahlke , also known as Pyrolator , remixed a song from their current album "Now I'm a Plant".

Schweiger also takes part in the political and social discourse. Her avant-garde opera "The Mark on the Wall" based on the short story of the same name by Virginia Woolf , composed for the singer Anna Clementi , premiered in 2017. The prelude to her self-sung first settings of the poems by Katherine Mansfield appeared in 2018 and was produced by Hanno Leichtmann . The second album in the series of Katherine Mansfield settings, "When I was a Bird", was produced by Pyrolator and was released in 2020 on L'ST records.

Compositions (selection)

  • 1au9tu9mn3 , Experimental music theater for four variable instruments and dance (1) - Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Kulturbrauerei Berlin with Matthias Bauer , 1993
  • 28 for the ConGiocco Ensemble, experimental music theater for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, cello, double bass - Days of Women's Music Weimar, 1994
  • Floréal for large flute - Randspiele Zepernick 2012 by Erik Drescher, 1994
  • Sommerregen for mixed choir a-cappella (Text: Thomas Bernhard) - Staatsoper Berlin , Berliner Atonale 2018, 1997
  • Skira for flute, violoncello, accordion - Klaus Schöpp, Gerhard Scherer, Claudius von Wrochem 1997, CD 2012
  • Spirkel , theater music for oboe, horn after Goethe - Sophiensæle Berlin , 1998
  • exilata for the Ensemble Accroche Note soprano, clarinet - Festival Lucero Paris, 1998
  • Fresco - Crocifissione , rhythmic implementation of the triptych by Perugino in the Chiesa Sancta Maria Magdalena dei Pazzi with a large orchestra, 1999
  • Postcard - Archangel Michael Carpet - inspired by a postcard from Peter Ablinger , rhythmic implementation of the wall carpet from the Middle Ages in the cathedral treasury in Halberstadt for a large ensemble, 2000
  • ver-ver-ver for double bass, electronic sound processing in real time, playback tape (digital) - Festival Agora, IRCAM Paris, Didier Meu, 2002
  • sum1999mer ' for Hilary Jeffery , Text Instructions for Building a Score for Amplified Trombone, 2004
  • Snow field for concert guitar, if possible electrically amplified, Johannes Öllinger, Berlin, 2005
  • hiddensee 2 for Roman Trekel and Isa von Wedemeyer, text: Ulrike Draesner , baritone and violoncello, 2013
  • Working through - Dieter Schnebel on his 85th birthday - for Anna Clementi and Ariane Jeßulat , Akademie der Künste, 2015
  • The Mark on the Wall , music theater based on the short story of the same name by Virginia Woolf from 1917, European Music Project, director: Jürgen Grözinger , funded by LAFT and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education and Culture, 2017
  • Koi Song for Anna Clementi, performance with fragments of the Women's March by Ethel Smyth , Brazil, 2017
  • ver.blich for double bass and electronics, revised in 2018 for the IKO loudspeaker - musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst Graz, 2018
  • Take a Seat for Natalia Pschenitschnikowa, voice / performance and electronics - Acker Stadt Palast Berlin, 2019
  • Rook Song for the Via Nova ensemble, with electronics and video - Pyramidale Berlin, 2019

Publications (selection)

  • "To Live is to Fly", Baby You Know, 1990, as composer, Subup Records Munich
  • "Sp19ri9ng one for Piano", Stepha Schweiger, MC 1992, CD 2012
  • "Through the Screen", CD, Stepha, 2006
  • “Stepha Schweiger composes visionmusique”, CD 2012
  • “The Mark on the Wall”, trailer by Aniara Amos , film: Caro Brandl
  • "Dissolve Into", CD, vinyl, single (Rubies), 2015/16
  • Videos "Rubies", "Dissolve into", "Going Nowhere" by Vincent Stefan
  • “When I was a Bird”, CD, color vinyl limited, 2020, L'ST records Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KunstMusik - writings on music as art. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Baby You Know - indiepedia.de. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ GIRL ON CATFISH live at Milla Munic 2018. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ ver.blich | musikprotokoll.orf.at. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Remixes, by Stepha Schweiger. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Judyta Smykowski: New old story. Missy Magazin print edition, July 16, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Franziska Buhre: The Pacific, the cello and drunken trees . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 8, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 30 ePaper 2 Berlin ( taz.de [accessed on August 13, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Snail and mirroring - "THE MARK ON THE WALL" - music theater by Stepha Schweiger | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  9. ^ NDR: night club (studio guest: Stepha Schweiger). Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Stepha Schweiger. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Berlin Atonale III | State Opera Berlin. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Schneefeld for Guitar (2004/2019). Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Acker City Palace. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Stepha: Through the screen. 2006, accessed August 17, 2019 .
  15. ↑ The Mark on the Wall - Stepha Schweiger Anna Clementi. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Stepha Schweiger "Rubies" by Stepha. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Dissolve into by Stepha Film Vincent Stefan. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Stepha Schweiger "Going Nowhere" by Stepha. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  19. ^ Title song of the album "When I was a Bird". Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  20. ^ First single from the album "When I was a Bird": "Sea Crazy Song". Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  21. ^ L-st-records. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Silent, Stepha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg