Composition / Synthesizer

Pierre Mariétan (1935–2025) was a prolific Swiss composer, sound artist, and pioneer in acoustic ecology who spent most of his life working in France. Over his long career, he composed more than 300 instrumental, orchestral, vocal, and electronic pie…

Single CD of Stockhausen's last electronic work, Cosmic Pulses (2006-07), the thirteenth hour of Klang, in a stereo mixdown, with the beginnings of its 24 layers as bonus tracks.

In this 1982 Folkways release, Jon Appleton plays four compositions written for the Synclavier, a digital synthesizer he helped to develop in the late 1970s. “The Sweet Dreams of Miss Pamela Beach” was recorded in a studio using a 24-track recorder t…

Synthi-Fou (Klavierstück XV) and Dienstags-Abschied from Act 2 of Dienstag aus Licht, 1991. Simon Stockhausen on synthesizer and as narrator, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Stockhausen conducting. Two CDs, 1994.

Himmelfahrt (Ascension), first hour of Stockhausen's Klang cycle, in the version for synthesizer, soprano and tenor with Antonio Pérez Abellán, Barbara Zanichelli and Hubert Mayer, recorded in 2006.

Five chamber works from Stockhausen's Licht for percussion and synthesizer, including Vibra-Elufa, Komet and the Wednesday Formula in two forms, recorded mostly in 2005.

Three works for tenor and synthesizer: Tierkreis in the 2003 version, Die 7 Lieder der Tage and Vision, with Hubert Mayer, Antonio Pérez Abellán and trumpeter Marco Blaauw, recorded in Cologne in 2005.

Exit music of Stockhausen's Sonntag aus Licht, an arrangement of Hoch-Zeiten for five synthesizers, composed 2001 to 2003 and recorded in August 2004 in Cologne.

Rechter Augenbrauentanz (1983-2003), for clarinets, bass clarinets, percussion and synthesizer, and Capricorn from Sirius for bass and electronic music, sung by Nicholas Isherwood; issued by Stockhausen-Verlag in 2004.

Lichter-Wasser (Sonntags-Gruss, 1998-99), the first scene of Sonntag aus Licht, for soprano, tenor and orchestra with synthesizer, premiered at the Donaueschingen Music Days in 1999; issued by Stockhausen-Verlag in 2000.

Michaelion, the fourth scene of Mittwoch aus Licht (1997), recorded 13-15 August 2012 in Birmingham during rehearsals for the staged premiere, with London Voices and Michael Leibundgut; mixed by Kathinka Pasveer and Günther Kasper.

Solo (1966) in versions for flute (Dietmar Wiesner) and synthesizer (Simon Stockhausen), and Spiral (1968) in a version for oboe, voice, didgeridoo and short-wave receiver (Cathy Milliken). Stockhausen Edition no. 45, 1995.

Portrait CD of Genoël von Lilienstern: Voz Comercial, Couture, Big Picture and Top, with Johanna Vargas, Soetkin Elbers, Ensemble Garage, the SWR Symphonieorchester under Ilan Volkov and Ensemble Interface.

Stockhausen Edition no. 63: Luzifers Zorn, Die 7 Lieder der Tage in voice and flute versions, and Der Kinderfänger, scenes from Montag aus Licht, recorded in 2001 with Nicholas Isherwood, Kathinka Pasveer and Antonio Pérez Abellán.

Seven pieces from the Licht operas for flute, synthesizer and tape, performed with Kathinka Pasveer and Antonio Pérez Abellán: Zungenspitzentanz, Klavierstück XVI, Freia, Komet, Entführung, Flöte and Thinki.

First recording of Enno Poppe's Rundfunk for nine synthesizers (2015-2018), played by Ensemble Mosaik with audio software by Wolfgang Heiniger, recorded in 2019 at the Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin. Co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Three electronic works by Michael Obst, Inside (Infinite Chambers), Metal Drop Music and Ye-Na-Je, realised in 1983 at the Studio for Electronic Music of the Cologne Musikhochschule and, for Ye-Na-Je, with IPEM Ghent.