Krandaubel Walzer

an arrangement of the blue danube waltz for the opening of the Krandaubel museum (2023)

for flute, guitar and dancer

together with Dalma Sarnyai and Carola Fuchs as "Eiden Consort"

Lau

scored interction (2022)

For 3 musicians (saxophone, oboe, E-bass), 3 aquariums, colors and tools to be performed in bathrooms.

together with Christina Dörfler

​Farbthermostate::rasende und erstarrende Moleküle::Siedepunkt und Taupunkt::Balance und Kontrollverlust::Trennung und Mischung::kommunizierende Gefäße::die Duschtemperatur regelt sich nicht von selbst.

part of the
nass zell flux event
by aiaia
Link: https://aiaia.at/nasszellflux/
9 April 2022
several private flats in Vienna

dust to dust

Music for the video installation "dust to dust" by Yang Song (2022)

For five instruments
​5:30 min
​
opening July 16, 2022, Yuan Museum, Beijing

LOSS_expands

Music for the VR exhibition/performance LOSS_expands – coping with grief (2022)

For oboe, doublebass, piano

Exhibition: Vienna Brut (April 2022) 
8 different stations/situations/characters, each of them has its own musical world and motives.

PARALLEL ENCOUNTERS

session #2 in a-minor for Andreas Karl (2022)

For piano and electronic devices

curated by Han-Gyeol Lie
in cooperation with .akut – Association for Aesthetics and Applied Cultural Theory

​art-loft Berlin

Disappear

Music for a dance piece by Hou Ying Dance Theatre (2021)

For 5 instruments

80min

October 15, 16 2021, Shanghai International Dance Theatre,
July 27, 2022, Beijing Tianqiao Theatre

Log_Inn

Music for the installation "Log_Inn" by hoelb/hoeb (2021) 

For real life size video installation based on 3D models within the performance/exhibition project "Log_Inn" by hoelb/hoeb (2021)

Exhibition: Graz Schaumbad (September 2021)

pa shan hu

A tragic nursery song for Helena Sorokina (2021)

For solo voice

Peking Autumn Palimpsest

Music for an audio theatre play and city walk through 1920ties Beijing (2020)

For oboe, dulcimer, guitar, glockenspiel

Theatre play based on letters by Shen Congwen. Adapted by Liang Dandan. Beijing Autumn 2020 and again in 2021

Other music used in this piece by Dong Lingyi, Beat Furrer and Manuel Cardorso

Translations (Wachstumsdramen / Dramas of growth)

Study on music, images and meaning 1 (2020)
for piano, duclimer and e-guitar

With texts by Mang Cangcang and calligraphy from Jiu Shang

​​premiered online on 17th of August at pink umbrellas art residency in Sao Paolo.

Sayings

Study on music, images and meaning 2 (2021)

For smartphone videos and instruments


#1 psycho analysis
#2 lead
#3 codex
interlude #1
#4 psycho analysis
#5 morning
#6 vicious circle of fifths
#7 the future
interlude #2. Déjà-vu
#8 psycho analysis
#9 trees
postlude. pangea

Analogies

Study on music, images and meaning 3 (2022)

For smartphone videos and instruments


#1 art and nature
#2 map and terrain
#3 melody and text
#4 a minor and c major
​Interlude #1
#5 vowels and temperature. cold stretch
#6 borders and language
Interlude #2
#7 funeral march and traffic

The eyelids still refuse to dry up

A piece about erosion (2020)

For 4 musicians

Based on a text by Mang Cangcang and the "devils eye" in Qinghai

Beijing sketchbook

concept pieces 2018-2022

to read and not to perform

Graphic Notation Book #3a and #3b

Warten | Waiting 1 and 2. (2021)

For any instrument or combination of instruments

This is a musical score.
There are two parts.
This is a piece about waiting towards something.

The pictures of part 1 were taken at the construction site of the Schuetz Museum in Engelhartszell. The pictures of part 2 during a 22 day long quarantine stay at the Wendu Shuicheng Lake Bay Hotel in the north of Beijing, which served as one of the cities quarantine venues during the covid19 pandemic.
​Both scores have the same number of pages, they can be played parallel or alternating next to each other.

Graphic Notation Book #2

Beijing haze and light (2018-2020)

For any instrument or combination of instruments.

​This is a musical score.
The city is the rhythm and structure.
Haze and light indicate timbral changes.

The view from the 16th floor of the dormitory of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing towards east.
Shot between October 2018 and January 2020.

Graphic Notation Book #1

Landschaft mit Fernportraits ​(2019-2020)

​For any instrument or combination of instruments

What is a garden?

music for an exhibition of prints of Gfeller+Hellsgard (2019)

For dulcimer, theremin, guitar, loops, spoken voice and movements

Based on texts by Shuntaro Tanikawa, Ali Ahmad Said (Adonis), Mang Cangcang.

Ich kann nicht zwischen das Meer und den Himmel sehen

For piano and spoken voice (2019)

Based on a text by Mang Cangcang

LUKREZ RGB

music for short film by Andreas Mueller (2018)

For theremin, guitar, violin, doublebass, hammered dulcimer

​"LUKREZ RGB" interprets Lucretius’ revolutionary theories on the origin of our planet, the celestial bodies and the universe, with intense images. Written over 2,000 years ago the text, which the film is based on, unfolds a lost perspective, that seems outdated from today's point of view. A thought pattern that seems incompatible with our modern research methods and theories, but yet it anticipates the findings of the present sciences. In Lucretius’ text this is shown in his doubt about a higher intelligence, that controls the formation of the universe. A distinction between mind and matter is alien to him, both concepts rank on the same level. In doing so, he allows chance a decisive role in the process of creating the cosmos, whose elements are reduced to their corporeal components.
In analogy to this paradigm, the three primary colors red, green and blue refer in the film "LUKREZ RGB“ to the non-tangible. They represent the basics of the image, the light colors, from which all colors can be formed.
The formal structure of each scene is determined by grids and arches. In the film the grid organises the image surface in a way that inseparably unites similar elements, creating a uniform overall structure, which in turn is broken up by the curves of the arches.
According to the use of these basic elements, the film takes a look back at old techniques of film history with a twinkling eye, and plays with our perception by closely connecting documentary shots and fictional images, that interpret the text.
The music by Cornelius Berkowitz follows the film's images and the ideas of Lucretius into a world of shifted proportions and constellations, which transcends the horizon of our perception. The instruments appearing are the hammered dulcimer, theremin, violin, doublebass and effect pedals. – Carmen Baumschlager, 2018

see:
Andreas Mueller / Mueller concept

Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb

music for the IG-Verlust exhibition of hoelb/hoeb (2018)

For double bass, cello and dulcimer

​A piece to be played as a soundinstallation at an exhibition of hoelb/hoeb. Hoelb/hoeb's project IG-Verlust deals with the many forms of loss. In the case of Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb with the death of a glacier. 

The piece is also part of hoelb/hoeb - "Grab the pillow" (2022) in the exhibition project "HILFSLINIEN" at Volkskunde Museum Vienna. A link to a recording of "Im Sommer als mein Gletscher starb" is printed on pillows, distributed in the park inside the Volkskunde Museum Vienna.

Hic sunt dracones

music for a collection and fashion show by Dominique Raffa / R! (2017)

For cello, hammered dulcimer and theremin

Sieben Klingeltöne

​seven short minatures intended to be recorded and used on a phone or to be played as a piece in 7 movements (2017)

For piano solo

For Han-Gyeol Lie

Spieluhrbruchstücke

Music for a jewelry collection by Atelier Rouge Pekin (2017)

For celesta, piano, glockenspiel, theremin, bass

See:
ARP

Gran – ”Bum Zack“ Orchestersuite „Sonnenland“

Arrangement of a song by GRAN (2017)

Für drei chorische Stimmen, Solo Sopran, drei Gitarren, drei Synthies, Bass, Schlagwerk

Für WIENWOCHE Sanatorium Sonnenland, Kurkonzert.

Écart

A piece for and with the "Vinylograph" (2017)

For theremin, hammered dulcimer, guitar, glockenspiel, saxophone and turntable

Together with Noah Zeldin

five unique singles haven been made that day.
Cover artwork by Nieuw NDG.

http://nataschamuhic.at/albums/vinylograph
https://www.facebook.com/transformermusic/
https://vinylograph.bandcamp.com/album/cart

Grisaille (Intrada)

music to be performed next to Hieronymus Bosch' "The Last Judgment" tryptich (2016)

For hammered dulcimer, theremin, viola, saxophone

Performed as part of "Excuse my dust III". A concert organized by Verein akut in cooperation with Wien Modern and Modeschule Herbststrasse based on Hieronymus Bosch' "The Last Judgment".

Listening example is an excerpt of the 1,5h piece. Performed while the audience was wandering through the gallery.

Photo: Dina Lucia Weiss

5 Charaktere

For piano solo (2009/2016)

I. Per il tempo dopo il volo delle ceneri
II. Les Adieux, mit Debussy
III. Unsinkbar, Andrea Doria
IV. 2 Variationen auf eine venezianische Reihe
V. Still recruiting hopeless teens

​Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage / Der Fuhrmann des Todes)

A silent film in concert. Victor Sjöström, 1921 (2016)

For violin, recorders, paetzold flutes, alt-saxophone, tenor-saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass, theremin, hammered dulcimer, glockenspiel

See:
UNSAFE + SOUNDS Festival

Paris qui dort

A silent film in concert. Rene Clair, 1925 (2016)

​For electric guitar, theremin, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer and loop station

Scarecrow

A silent film in concert. Buster Keaton, 1921 (2016)

​For piano, theremin, hammered dulcimer and wood blocks

Quasi parlando

Based on texts by Lukrez and Leoš Janáček (2016)

For violin, flute, flute, saxophone, theremin and voice

For "philosophy unbound", Vienna.

untitled music for an installation of Olafur Eliasson

Music to be performed next to/inside a water dripping / stroboscopic light installation of Olafur Eliasson in Mannheim (2015)

For guitar, theremin and loop station

Kosmicheskiy Reys / Cosmic Voyage

A silent film in concert. Vasili Zhuravlov, 1935 (2015)

For electric guitar, theremin, glockenspiel, hammered dulcimer and loop station

Den Flyvende Cirkus

A silent film in concert. Alfred Lind, 1912 (2015)

For piano, electric guitar, theremin, percussion and loop station

"Quite a nice little tale of adventure from the golden early days of Danish silent cinema. With a fire, a great deal of jealousy, and some perilous situations and last-minute escapes. Not to mention the enchanting, cigar-smoking snake charmer Ula Kira-Maja (Lili Bech). And the musical score, newly composed by Cornelius Berkowitz, lends the drama still more intensity."

La Selva

Music for the film inside/outside by Sophie Lembke (2015)

For electric guitar, theremin and percussion

Music for M

Based on a play by Heiner Müller (2015)

For saxophone, theremin, hammered dulcimer and effects

Together with Noah Zeldin

Lichtspielmusik

music from the Vampyr film soundtrack combined to a suite (2015)

released on the Crossovers compilation by V/A in 2015

Vampyr

A semi-silent film in concert. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932 (2014)

For piano, electric guitar, theremin, percussion, glockenspiel and loop station

"Für die tranceartigen Erlebnisse des Studenten Allan Grey, die ihm in dem französischen Dorf Courtempierre widerfahren, hat Cornelius Berkowitz ein neue, erzählerische Musik geschrieben. In einem Ein-Mann-Ensemble zu einem dichten Netz aus Motiven und Referenzen vereint, ringen Klavier, Gitarre, Theremin, Glockenspiel und Percussion dem Film neue Facetten ab. Fast so als würden Schostakowitsch und Siouxsie Sioux Hitchcocks Filme nachvertonen.​"

Makeover

Concert installation for a video object by hoelb/hoeb (2014)

For electric guitar, tuning fork, theremin and loop station

In the exhibition Es geht voran, Feldbach, Styria

Wandering Tribe

Spatial composition for a performance/fashion show by Christina Dörfler (2012)

For Paetzold flute, recorder, percussion, cello, trumpet and fluegelhorn

Choreography by Bettina Foeldesi

Nagelschritt voraus

music for a text by Maria Hofer (2011)

For string trio and three voices

Drei Sonette treffen auf Prosatexte und ein Streichtrio und bewegen sich dabei zwischen Genres wie Hörspiel, Kammerminiaturoper, Monodram, Lesung und Rezitativ. Es bedient sich dabei alten Formen und Ideen aus dem neueren Musiktheater. Die Musik steht zu den Texten in einer gespalteten Beziehung. Sie ist Kommentar, Kontrahentin, Zwischenruferin, Pflegerin und Erbschleicherin, sie führt einen motivisch-thematisch komponierten Dialog mit dem Text. Die Bühnenhandlung ist miniaturisiert und zieht sich in die Sprache selbst zurück.

Tape Sonata

For five performer with tapedecks and a conductor (2011)

Fragments of 25 songs, recorded on tapes, are re-aranged to a 20 min tape sonate in 4 movements. Played live by 5 musicians with tape decks.

Play/rewind/forward/pause

Carré. Texturtanz

Music for a performance by Christina Dörfler and Bettina Foeldesi (2008)

For violin, flute, two dancers and costumes