Cover of the score 'Die Kammer' [the chamber] by A. Nowitz
Cover of the score 'Die Kammer' [the chamber] by A. Nowitz
The strophonion – a gesture-controlled live electronics by A.Nowitz. This model has been manufactured at STEIM in 2014 by Nicolò Merendino [cases] and Sukandar Kartadinata [electronics]. Image by Janina Janke.
The strophonion – a gesture-controlled live electronics by A.Nowitz. This model has been manufactured at STEIM in 2014 by Nicolò Merendino [cases] and Sukandar Kartadinata [electronics]. Image by Janina Janke.
Poster for the concert performance 'Die Praxis des Experimentalliedes' [The practice of the experimental song]
Poster for the concert performance 'Die Praxis des Experimentalliedes' [The practice of the experimental song]
Score of 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra by A.Nowitz, recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (2021; publ. 2023)
Score of 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra by A.Nowitz, recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (2021; publ. 2023)
Photo: Thor Egil Leirtrø—A. Nowitz with strophonion, Trondheim 2024, www.ThorEgilPhoto.com
Photo: Thor Egil Leirtrø—A. Nowitz with strophonion, Trondheim 2024, www.ThorEgilPhoto.com
Chapter by A.Nowitz in: 'Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3', ed. by Paulo de Assis & Paulo Giudici/Orpheus Institute (Leuven University Press 2021)
Chapter by A.Nowitz in: 'Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3', ed. by Paulo de Assis & Paulo Giudici/Orpheus Institute (Leuven University Press 2021)
A. Nowitz & A. Anissegos
A. Nowitz & A. Anissegos
Excerpt from the saxophone quartet 'Unfrei im Raum' [unfree in space] by A. Nowitz
Excerpt from the saxophone quartet 'Unfrei im Raum' [unfree in space] by A. Nowitz
M. Bauer & A. Nowitz recording of the playback for 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo S. Vogel
M. Bauer & A. Nowitz recording of the playback for 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo S. Vogel
Social media post of the duet performance I.Schick & A.Nowitz
Social media post of the duet performance I.Schick & A.Nowitz
 all about BIRDS = Sabine Vogel, Alex Nowitz & Meinrad Kneer (Paretzer Field Music 2024)
all about BIRDS = Sabine Vogel, Alex Nowitz & Meinrad Kneer (Paretzer Field Music 2024)
Poster of MASUAL: S. Kartadinata (git), M. Bauer (db) & A. Nowitz (vce, electr)
Poster of MASUAL: S. Kartadinata (git), M. Bauer (db) & A. Nowitz (vce, electr)
Still image of A.Nowitz performing ‚Timbisha—A song from the desert‘ in the sand dunes of the Death Valley, California documented by Sabine Vogel during their artist residency at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2022)
Still image of A.Nowitz performing ‚Timbisha—A song from the desert‘ in the sand dunes of the Death Valley, California documented by Sabine Vogel during their artist residency at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2022)
UPCOMING in 2025
4 May 2025

Alex Nowitz: Bbrrmm: Eine Klangutopie auf dem Land

für zwei Celli und drei Naturbeherrschungsinstrumente

[Bbrrmm: A sound utopia in the countryside, for two celli and three nature dominating instruments]
premiere of a new work commissioned by Paretzer Field Music curated by Sabine Vogel
interpreted by Mathis Mayr & Sophie Notte (both Vlc),
Rike Bechem, Ursula Münstermann und Jürgen Laartz (chainsaw, lawnmower, scythe).

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Alex Nowitz whistling in the Australian bush © Sabine Vogel
8 May 2025

Searching for the Magpie


"Searching the Magpie" is a video work by Alex Nowitz addressing human whistling as a means to communicate with potential birds. The scene has been documented by Sabine Vogel in the Australian bush near Melbourne. The video work is part of the opening of the annual festival for New Music intersonanzen at the MINSK gallery, Potsdam. Start: 19:00.
https://www.neue-musik-brandenburg.de/intersonanzen-3/
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AlexNowitz_Unruhe_ist_string_quartet_mouvement_II_page9
AlexNowitz_Unruhe_ist_string_quartet_mouvement_II_page9
Playing the strings with bent up paper clip
Playing the strings with bent up paper clip
AlexNowitz_Unruhe_ist_string_quartet_mouvement_V_page31
AlexNowitz_Unruhe_ist_string_quartet_mouvement_V_page31
16 May 2025

Alex Nowitz: String Quartet "Unruhe ist"
(1999/2025)

The Kairos Quartet (Berlin) with Rui C. Antunes (vln 1), Fiona Milla Jäntti (vln 2) Simone Heilgendorff (vla), Claudius von Wrochem (vlc) performs Alex Nowitz's string quartet "Unruhe ist", an anti-war piece composed in 1999. It is  part of the annual festival for new music intersonanzen in the Museum Barberini Potsdam. Other works presented are by Ludger Kisters, Makiko Nishikaze and Carola Bauckholdt. Start: 20:30.
intersonanzen 2025 celebrates 25 years of its existence.

https://www.neue-musik-brandenburg.de/intersonanzen-3/
Inspired by the poem "Unruhe ist in den Gräsern" [Disquietness is in the grasses] by Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, the string quartet grapples with the war taking place 25 years ago in Kosovo, former Yugoslavia, Europe. The premiere then was realized by the Persius Ensemble conducted by Peter Rainer in the Altes Rathaus Potsdam as part of the very first edition of the intersonanzen in the year 2000.
PAST WORKS & PROJECTS
 in 2025
17 March 2025

sOnic alchemy meets Alex Nowitz


sOnic alchemy is Sofia Borges (perc.) and Klaus Janek (db, electronics) meeting Alex Nowitz (vce, strophonion) to present improvsied music in solo, duo and trio constellations at the wood workshop of the interior & furniture designer Rainer Spehl, Brunnenstrasse 152, 2. Hinterhof, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Start: 20:00.
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13 Jan. 2025

Nowitz/Anders/Drnek/Gratkowski


Quartet with Isabel Anders (pno), Vojta Drnek (acc), Frank Gratkowski (cl/bcl) & Alex Nowitz (vce) at Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin. Due to illness Frank Gratkowski replaces Meinrad Kneer (db).
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12 Jan. 2025

Alex Nowitz: Doubles and Drones from the Desert

for voice, live electronics (strophonion), piccolo, alto flute and video (2022)

Publication of the video documentation of a live performance (≈33 mins.) with Katrin Plümer and Alex Nowitz which took place on Nov. 2nd, 2024 at the French Church Potsdam recorded by Sirko Knüpfer (video) and Sabine Vogel (audio):
https://vimeo.com/1046125557
The performance has been part of the concert performance "Die Praxis des Experimentalliedes" [The practice of the experimental song]:
https://nowitz.de/die-praxis-des-experimentalliedes
WORKS & PROJECTS
in 2024
06 Dec. 2024, 20:00

Kneer & Nowitz


Duo Meinrad Kneer (double bass) & Alex Nowitz (voice)
interpret and improvise with graphical scores and re-written texts by Grgur Savi
ć
as part of "Three Nights of Graphic Score Music"

Furthermore: Frank Gratkowski (solo saxophone); Korhan Erel (electronics) & Emilio Gordoa (snare drum, objects)
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30 Nov. 2024

Nowitz & Schick


Duo Ignaz Schick (turntables, electronics) & Alex Nowitz (voice, strophonion)
as part of the Jazzoffensive-Festival 'I sing the body...!' in the fabrik Potsdam

https://www.fabrikpotsdam.de/event/1293

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23 Nov. 2024

Die erweiterte Kammer
klarinette-akkordeon plus


Concert performance by 'klarinette-akkordeon plus': Christine Paté (accordion, quartertone accordion) & Matthias Badczong (clarinet, bass clarinet) together with Matthias Bauer (double bass, voice) & Alex Nowitz (voice, strophonion, bass guitar)
at the St. Matthäus-Kirche Berlin

[The extended chamber] a concert performance presenting new works by Sara Abazari (Elis), Matthias Bauer (vacc) and Alex Nowitz (Die Kammer, Was tun wir?, Die erweiterte Kammer) funded by the INM Berlin.
https://www.field-notes.berlin/kalender/die-erweiterte-kammer
https://nowitz.de/die-erweiterte-kammer

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[The practice of the experimental song] a concert performance presenting works by Alex Nowitz ("Venusfalle" [Venus fly trap] for flute solo and piano resonance, "Doubles and Drones from the Desert" for voice, alto/picc. flute & video), by Antonis Anissegos ("imtra" for audiovisuals) and duet compositions by aNo (Anissegos & Nowitz), funded by the Musikfonds e.V. and by the Landesmusikrat Brandenburg with financial means from the Bundesbeauftragten für Kultur & Medien and from the MWFK Brandenburg.
https://nowitz.de/die-praxis-des-experimentalliedes

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5 Oct. 2024
Concert performance with
Tone Åse, Franziska Baumann, Alex Nowitz & Trondheim Voices

at the Dokhuset Trondheim (NO)

https://www.friresonans.no/
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29 Sep. – 2 Oct. 2024
Alex Nowitz: "
Die Bestmannoper oder der Versuch,
mit Mitteln eines
grotesken Musiktheaters eine historische Lücke zu schließen"
at the Villa la Collina in Cadenabbia, Italy
['The opera on the best man' or the attempt to fill a historical gap by means of a grotesque opera] Alex Nowitz talks about his first opera 'Die Bestmannoper' premiered in 2006 at the Theatre Osnabrueck shedding light on the scandal that NAZI criminal and mass murderer Alois Brunner, best man of Adolf Eichmann, was never brought to court although his hideout was well-known: Damaskus, Rue Haddad 13, under the protection of the Assad regime. The antagonist in the opera was built on French lawyer Serge Klarsfeld.
The lecture is part of the Fellowship Workshop Cadenabbia with the motto “(Kunst) Geschichte wiederholt sich (nicht)” — (Art) History repeats itself (not) — organized by Dr. Hans-Jörg Clement and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Die Bestmannoper has been created by Alex Nowitz (music composition) and Ralph Hammerthaler (libretto).
https://vimeo.com/98128085

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Klaus Janek [replacing Matthias Bauer] © Jönköping
Klaus Janek [replacing Matthias Bauer] © Jönköping
22 Sept. 2024 (19:00)
MASUAL: "Freeimprovisedelectroacousticnoisevoice Compositions"
at the Französische Kirche Potsdam

The trio MASUAL is invited to perform at the Französische Kirche [French Church] in Potsdam as part of nu:sub—adventures in sound, a new series for experimental chamber music, sound art & electronic music curated by Udo Koloska.
Klaus Janek (double bass, electronics) from Berlin will play instead of Matthias Bauer.

https://nowitz.de/masual
Other works presented are by Mariana Cavalho (voice, clay, samples) and Sabine Vogel: "Ch'
íich" (8-channel tape, ceramic flutes and video). The concert is funded by the Landeshauptstadt Potsdam:

https://artifactpotsdam.de/NuSub1

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15 Sept. 2024 (15:00–18:00)
Alex Nowitz: "Über Luftzüge und andere Zuglüste" (2023), a solo performance &
"The Little book for Toy Piano" (2003) interpreted by Mrika Sefa

in Kleinmachnow

[On draughts and other desires for trains] as part of the 'Klangspaziergang' organized by the ausKlang e.V. in Kleinmachnow (South of Berlin, in between Potsdam and Berlin), 15:00–18:00, historical waggon (Stahnsdorfer Damm 19, next to the Kleinmachnower Schleuse).
Same time: a.o. Mrika Sefa plays pieces from the compilation "The Little Book For Toy Piano" by Alex Nowitz.
https://ausklang.org/cms/pages/de/veranstaltungen/klangspaziergang-um-den-machnower-see.php
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14 Sept. 2024 (16:00)
Duo Klariac performs Alex Nowitz: "Die Kammer" (2023)
in the Marienkirche Strausberg

[The Chamber] Christine Paté  (accordion) and Matthias Badczong (clarinet) will present "Die Kammer" as part of Aktuelle Musik in Strausberg curated by Irina Emeliantseva. The duet will also interpret works by Béla Bartók, Irina Emeliantseva, Helmut Zapf, a.o. Start: 16:00.
https://www.strausberg-live.de/termin-detail.php?id=98505

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13 Sept. 2024 (22:00)
Kneer & Nowitz: "Voice & Bass" a duet performance
in the Lichtblickkino Berlin

Meinard Kneer (double bass) and Alex Nowitz (voice) will present a duo set as part of the series "Das Ende" curated by Grgur Savic and Richard Scott (Lichtblickkino , Kastanienallee 77, Prenzlauer Berg Berlin).
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7 Sept. 2024 (21:00)
Operadicals with Supplément Musicaux: "Here Be Dragons"
at the Musikfestival Bern

The int. vocal quartet operadicals (NO/CH/DE/SE), Tone Åse (voice, live electronics), Franziska Baumann (voice, sensorglove), Alex Nowitz (voice, strophonion) and Sten Sandell (voice piano) together with the Swiss choir supplément musicaux conducted by Moritz Achermann, presents a new full-evening work at the Musikfest Bern Here Be Dragons for vocal quartet, choir, piano, and live electronics, light and space, directed by Franziska Baumann.
The project includes the premiere of a new piece for four voices, choir, live electronics and piano by Alex Nowitz based on his text composition Was tun wir?.

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29 June 2024 (10:30)
Alex Nowitz: "Unfrei im Raum" for saxophone quartet (2024)
in Eberswalde, close to Berlin

[Unfree in Space] interpreted by the sonic.art saxophone quartet (Berlin) at the Paul-Wunderlich-Haus in Eberswalde, a concert organized by the Brandenburgian Association of New Music (bvnm) and Ralf Hoyer:
https://www.neue-musik-brandenburg.de/Intersonanzen/

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24 June 2024
aNo = Anissegos + Nowitz
in Berlin-Weissensee

aNo is A.N. (voice) & Antonis Anissegos (piano) at Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin-Weissensee
https://kuehlspot.com/

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Bauer & Nowitz: Zum guten Klang des Tons
Bauer & Nowitz: Zum guten Klang des Tons
 16 June 2024
Kneer & Nowitz: "Zum guten Klang des Tons" (premiere)
in Mühlenbeck, North of Berlin

[On the good sound of clay] — premiere of music performance for voice, double bass, clay objects and fixed sounds by Alex Nowitz & Matthias Bauer, as part of the annual festival Klanglandschaften 2024, Mühlenbeck, Germany
https://www.klanglandschaften.eu/festival
Due to illness of Matthias Bauer, Meinrad Kneer (db) will play the part for double bass.

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30 May – 9 June 2024
Alex Nowitz: "Klangduschen" für vier Lautsprecher (2008)
in Fluxus+ Potsdam

[sound showers] part of a sound installation by composers of the Brandenburgian Association of New Music (bvnm) as part of the annual festival intersonanzen 2024 at the museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam, Germany:
https://www.neue-musik-brandenburg.de/Intersonanzen/

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1 June 2024 (20:00)
Alex Nowitz: "Unfrei im Raum" for saxophone quartett (premiere)
in Fluxus+ Potsdam

Premiere of his second quartet for saxophone called Unfrei im Raum [Unfree in Space] interpreted by the sonic.art saxophone quartet (Berlin) as part of the annual festival intersonanzen 2024 organized by the Brandenburgian Association of New Music (bvnm) at the museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam, Germany.
Documentation of the pre
miere performance:
https://youtu.be/b-nu1vFW2Ps?feature=shared

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1 June 2024 (16:00)
Alex Nowitz: "Ha-i-ku" für einen Sprecherperformer (2019)
in Fluxus+ Potsdam

Alex Nowitz performs his work Ha-i-ku as part of the annual festival intersonanzen 2024, organized by the Brandenburgian Association of New Music (bvnm), at the museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam, Germany:
https://www.neue-musik-brandenburg.de/Intersonanzen/

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[photo: Susanne Fröhlich]

5 May 2024 (15:00)
all about BIRDS = Vogel + Nowitz + Kneer
in Paretz (Havelland)
all about BIRDS is a new trio project with Meinrad Kneer (double bass), Alex Nowitz (voice & whistles) & Sabine Vogel (flutes) presenting an outdoor performance for voice, whistles, flutes and double bass at the Paretzer Field Music—Picknickkonzerte mit aktueller Musik in Paretz:
https://sabvog.de/projects/paretzer-field-music/

Further fantastic musicians and artists: Susanne Fröhlich (recorders), Marc Sinan (guitar), Lena Czerniawska (visuals arts). Don’t miss the sublime bird watching walks with ornothologist Meinrad Kneer!
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3 April 2024 (20:00)
aNo = Anissegos + Nowitz
at Terzo Mondo Berlin-Charlottenburg

aNo is a new duo project by Alex Nowitz & Antonis Anissegos presenting a concert performance for voice, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & augmented piano, at Terzo Mondo, Charlottenburg Berlin:
https://www.terzomondo.de/event/ano/.

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27 January 2024
Alex Nowitz: "In the Thicket of the Invisible Wires"
in Fluxus+ Potsdam

solo concert performance for voice & live electronics (strophonion) as part of Made in Potsdam – Festival  aktueller Kunst @ museum FLUXUS+ Potsdam, Germany
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RECENT RECORDINGS & PUBLICATIONS
aNo (Antonis Anissegos & Alex Nowitz)
Berlin 2024
https://soundcloud.com/antonis-anissegos/sets/ano

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A radio feature by Lena Czerniawska on music by Alex Nowitz
Radio Kapitał, Warsaw 2023

https://radiokapital.pl/shows/eksperymentalna-audycja-literacka/34-alex-nowitz/

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Ich bin das Volk
[I am the people] for large orchestra,
studio production: Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg (DFOB),
Potsdam 2021, co-produced and
published by Brandenburgischer Verein für Neue Musik (bvnm) 2023

https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/ich-bin-das-volk

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Sieben Eintragungen: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Lautklangkünstlers
[Seven entries: From the diary of a sound poet]
studio production, Berlin 2022
https://vimeo.com/743004373

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Vom Glühen der Glut
[On the glowing of the embers] for orchestra & smartphones
recording by rbbKultur of the premiere by the Kammerakademie Potsdam in the Nikolaisaal, Potsdam 2022

https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/vom-gluehen-der-glut

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MAJOR WORKS & PROJECTS
from 2023 to 2019

Die Kammer
for clarinet & accordion
[The chamber] premiere performance by klarinette-akkordeon plus (Matthias Badzcong & Christine Paté), intersonanzen Potsdam 2023

Doubles & Drones from the Desert
for voice, piccolo & alto flute, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & video, premiere Klosterscheune Zehdenick 2022

Designing Voices
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021

The Bird That Did Not Return
premiere Intersonanzen / Kunsthaus Sans Titre, Potsdam 2020

Monsters I Love
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019

ALL WORKS & PROJECTS
from 2023 to 2019
A.N., Designing Voices Berlin, 6 Nov. 2021  — Photo: Sebastian Rausch
A.N., Designing Voices Berlin, 6 Nov. 2021 — Photo: Sebastian Rausch
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Still image of A.N. performing 'Panache' for voice solo, from a video recording by Oscar Loeser
Still image of A.N. performing 'Panache' for voice solo, from a video recording by Oscar Loeser
© Alex Nowitz, 2025