Wolfgang Heiniger

Wolfgang Heiniger (* 1964 in Basel ) is a Swiss composer and university professor.

life and work

Wolfgang Heiniger studied drums, electro-acoustic music and composition in Basel and Stanford , and his teachers included Thomas Kessler . Between 1995 and 2003 he was the head of the course in audio design at the Basel University of Music , and since 2003 he has been a professor for intermedia composition at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin .

He is one of the two artistic directors of the “Klangzeitort” Institute for New Music at the Hanns Eisler University of the Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts.

He is - or was - co-founder of various ensembles for electronic and improvised music (e.g. Basel Electric Art Messengers 1994-2006, European Powerbook Orchestra 1995-2001) as well as curator of several festivals (Echt! Zeit, Tage für Neue Musik Rümlingen etc.) . He is a member of the theater collective "Mehrblick & Ton".

His compositions (mostly chamber music and music theater), which often include scenic and interactive elements, and a. Use loudspeaker orchestras and self-developed electro-acoustic instruments are regularly used by ensembles such as musikFabrik Nordrhein-Westfalen , ensemble mosaik berlin, Ensemble Phoenix Basel , Soyuz21 Zurich, Inverspace, EW-4 and others. a. listed. Together with Kirsten Reese he develops and directs the “Berlin Loudspeaker Orchestra (BLO)”. He has worked with the composer Enno Poppe for many years from the u. a. "Animals don't sit" and "Tape" were co-composed.

Heiniger also works as a sound director, improviser and performer of electronic music in productions in Europe, Asia and America.

Catalog of works (selection)

Music theater:

• ADA, queen of engines , digital monodrama for soprano, four instruments, electronics and video (2000)
• Wanderland (with Cathy van Eck, Genoel von Lilienstern, Beate Baron, 2008)
• Animals don't sit , incidental music for 200 instruments and 15 performers (together with Enno Poppe , 2009)
• Moby_D, a melancholy of men (2015/16) Music theater for actors, a recorder player and a loudspeaker orchestra

Ensemble music:

• inFerno for violin, percussion and live electronics (1993)
• PastOrale for two percussionists and live electronics (1994)
• Water music for one player and live electronics (1995)
• in Four (motion) for saxophone, e-piano, e-guitar and drums (1995)
• regress for saxophone, e-piano, e-guitar and drums (1999)
• OkT3T (alla marcia) for wind octet (2000)
• Scannings for three performers and live electronics (2001)
• LAMENTO III for double bass saxophone, percussion, two self-playing small drums and electric motor (2003)
• LAMENTO V for string quartet and self- playing snare drum (2003/04)
• Angel Tongues (LAMENTO IX) for ensemble and two self-playing small drums (2004)
• Lapis lazuli for soprano and soprano saxophone, with player (2006)
• Tile glass for seven musicians (2006)
• 5 towers in a flat landscape for seven self-playing small drums (2007)
• Fallwinde V for viola, piano and player (2008)
• Tape for two percussionists and two keyboardists (together with Enno Poppe, 2008)
• Flatscape (Sehnsucht II) for ten self-playing small drums (2011)
• Sheet metal dust for ensemble (sax git, vc, el.org., Perc, elec.) (2015)
• MEMORABILIA for four electronic blow transducers (2017)
• I HAVE A FISH IN THE EAR for six voices and 5 self-playing small drums (2017)
• NEUMOND for two keyboards and 2 percussionists (2018)
• Heimat I (2018) for piano, drums and small tape
• Heimat II (2018) for keyboards, drums and small feed
• Heimat III (2018) for soprano sax, flute, piano (electronic organ), drums, record player and electronics

Solo works:

• admitted for marimbaphone solo (1991)
• Birth, revisited for soprano and live electronics (1991)
• PatheTicks for violin alone (1993)
• VoiceOver for soprano solo (1997)
• desafinado for soprano saxophone, self- playing snare drum and loudspeaker (2005)
• Longing for Keyboard and Five Electromechanical Percussion Instruments (2009)
• SCHWINGKREIS for snare drum and two self-playing small drums (2010)
• Driftwood for harp and small electronics (2011)
• SCHWER for cello and player (video & audio) (2015)
• Flut for recorder and player (2016)
• When I was seventeen for electric guitar, computer and 5 amps ( 2018)

Dance theater:

• 123 & 2 , Theater Basel (1989)
• RESL , Theater Giessen (Th. Langkau, 1994)
• Pampa Cows , Theater Giessen (Teresa Rotemberg, 1995)
• Nordtangente , Compagnie "Eclat" (1996)
• Dos Quartos , Theater Weimar (Teresa Rotemberg, 1997)
• Oh Johnny , Compagnie Teresa Rotemberg (1999)
• une pure reste une pure , Compagnie Mafalda, Teresa Rotemberg (2001)
• In the enclosure , Compagnie Mafalda, Teresa Rotemberg (2003)
• Holiday-In , Compagnie Mafalda, Teresa Rotemberg (2001)

Films:

• Rosengewitter , film by Sarah Maria Derendinger (1992)
• Die Beule , film by Sarah Maria Derendinger (2000)
• FLOWER ROOM , film by Sarah Maria Derendinger (2009)

Source: Homepage of the composer

Web links

• Website of the composer
• Site at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the composer. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .