Writings
Selected essays, observations, manifestos, rants, self help, interviews with friends and guest posts by fellow artists.
Not including 500+ Composition Exercises, all of which can be found here.
2024
Essay on a Max Neuhaus installation for the launch of klangraumarchitektur.ch:
«Klang als Kontext – die Suspended Sound Line als identitätsstiftende Intervention im öffentlichen Klangraum»
2023
On "Chromatic Dazzle" by Frederik Vanhoutte, editorial for Tender.art
2022
The true avant-garde is internal
On "simple things" by Marcelo Soría-Rodriguez, editorial for Tender.art
On "Hexagones - Art for Bots" by Rev Dan Catt, editorial for Tender.art
2020
Art: An Affirmation
2019
A few thoughts on having a practice
Unfixed Polyrhythm
Three years of Composition Exercises
2018
Sound Walks: On listening and shared silence
What I'm learning from learning to juggle
Von Erstbesteigungen und Uraufführungen
(Editorial, Swiss Chamber Music Festival 2018)
Das WhatsApp-Ensemble
(in: Share - Medientechnologie und Kulturvermittlung, Sabine Himmelsbach und Shusha Niederberger, Eds., Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2017)
On writing 100 Composition Exercises
Where I'm coming from (...among other places)
On depth and breadth in how I listen to music
Beautiful forms that exist briefly (U.K. Le Guin quote)
Setting a reminder is an act of composition
2017
Notes for the current and future expeditions
Kolapse Interviews
9 - The Redundant Rocker interview by Tamara Lyn
8 - Erik Emil Eskildsen feat. Stormtrap Asifeh interview by Aliensporebomb
7 - Chris Herb interview by Cha Blasco
6 - Ritxi Ostáriz interview by Cedric Theys
5 - Guy Birkin interview by Spingere
4 - Drescher und Wemmser interview by Kathy Melaas
3 - Lärmheim interview by Cedric Theys
2 - Kryshe interview by Arne Bense
1 - Mathon interview by Juan Dahmen
Moving to the pulse of impossible bodies
2016
The atom of meaning is the phrase
Interview: Lärmheim on "Cents Soleils"
Seeing the Paper
2015
Listening to Björk's "Stonemilker"
2014
Interview: Bernhard Wöstheinrich on "The Precious Herd"
Todmorden 513
3 - The Recording Session
2 - The score & a word from Thomas
1 - Rehearsals
Five Max Questions for
Cathy van Eck
Ben Carey
Joana Aderi
2013
Ten guest posts on computers and live performance
10 - Leo Hofmann - Two performances
9 - Alex McLean - Music (and live coding) as activity
8 - Marcel Zaes - Creating technical media music within a digitized world
7 - Andi Otto: Fello
6 - Jeff Swearengin - Improvising (with) the setup
5 - Samuel Gfeller: Designing live electronic instruments for improvisation
4 - Markus Reuter - Making the computer vibrate
3 - Adrian Benavides - Performance enhancement
2 - Ben Carey - _derivations
1 - Erik Schoster: Music without Music
2012
Visiting Max Neuhaus' Suspended Sound Line
Creating centrozoon's "Boner" album
2010
A hundred quirky legs - for a grounded utopism in digital music (MA thesis)
2008
Metamorphiction - Jeff Noon's "Needle in the Groove" in the context of digital media production (BA thesis)