Alex Nowitz with the gesture-controlled live electronics called "strophonion" (photo by Oscar Loeser).
![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.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/6a11eab7-3d5d-466e-aff7-a9279c9e5c77_rw_3840.JPG?h=51a88b5184b2ff2fd3bb49547759199f)
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.
![Image from the string quartet "Unruhe ist" [disquietness is]](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/6e659f89-2fa6-453f-97bd-5c498d8b55e1_rw_1200.png?h=9abe44f6831bde8e1e3c87df5593f874)
Image from the string quartet "Unruhe ist" [disquietness is]
Photo: Thor Egil Leirtrø—A. Nowitz with strophonion, Trondheim 2024, www.ThorEgilPhoto.com
Antonella Manacorda & Kammerakademie Potsdam premiering Alex Nowitz' "Vom Glühen der Glut" ©Beate Maetzel
A. Nowitz & A. Anissegos
!["Die Vogelkreis-Performance" [The bird cycle performance] by and with Alex Nowitz (vce) & Fiona Milla Jäntti (vln) @Klangspaziergang Stahnsdorf/ausklang e.V., 2025 ©Oliver Pagels](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/a6f9cd3c-1b09-4f99-86a8-1295b3d31e14_rw_3840.jpg?h=72fce4f7567d18a477b436a028f785f1)
"Die Vogelkreis-Performance" [The bird cycle performance] by and with Alex Nowitz (vce) & Fiona Milla Jäntti (vln) @Klangspaziergang Stahnsdorf/ausklang e.V., 2025 ©Oliver Pagels
![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)](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/dab225a1-11f9-46e4-b073-f0b65a2c007b_rw_1920.png?h=1fe07d0a4f9afae6964ff6bc5caeae15)
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)
Alex Nowitz: Self Portrait (2024)
![Poster for the concert performance 'Die Praxis des Experimentalliedes' [The practice of the experimental song]](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/04eea30f-b9ce-4e08-8a3e-ba7d2a4b8298_rw_1920.jpg?h=adf36c58910c210275d5325264e337c2)
Poster for the concert performance 'Die Praxis des Experimentalliedes' [The practice of the experimental song]
![Score & chainsaw for "bbrrmm: Eine Klangutopie auf dem Land" [sound utopia in the country-side] for 2 cello players and 3 nature dominating instruments](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/f59d135b-420e-4d58-ab50-3089068ac9c7_rw_1920.jpg?h=b445b8c6aa4cb78a56403517dadeb184)
Score & chainsaw for "bbrrmm: Eine Klangutopie auf dem Land" [sound utopia in the country-side] for 2 cello players and 3 nature dominating instruments
Frontcover of the flyer of DESIGNING VOICES 2025
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)
Mathis Mayr and Sophie Notte performing "Alex Nowitz' "bbrrmm" @ Paretzer Dield Music
![Score excerpt of "Unfrei im Raum" [Unfree in space] for sax quartet](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/7f67bb58-f3cf-4e81-91c7-3b3c661f403d_rw_1200.png?h=545dc29d92b0ccb4d5a794d5200f7264)
Score excerpt of "Unfrei im Raum" [Unfree in space] for sax quartet
Poster of MASUAL: S. Kartadinata (git), M. Bauer (db) & A. Nowitz (vce, electr)
cover for vimeo site of Seven Entries: From the diary of a sound poet
![M. Bauer & A. Nowitz recording the playback for 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo S. Vogel](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/91cf575f-47fa-47dd-9b7d-de95f6944960_rw_3840.jpeg?h=c8ad3664587fffbd539e7b6b01402f9f)
M. Bauer & A. Nowitz recording the playback for 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo S. Vogel
Cover of the lecture "Sounding the Human Potential"
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)
Matthias Bauer (db) ©Peter Gannushkin, Matthias Badczong (cl) & Christine Paté (accord) ©T. Tarczynski, Alex Nowitz (vce, electr) ©Oscar Loeser
all about BIRDS = Sabine Vogel, Alex Nowitz & Meinrad Kneer (Paretzer Field Music 2024) © Susanne Fröhlich
=> https://nowitz.de/statement-in-english
DESIGNING VOICES: Klangsinne
Int. festival for vocal performance art, sound & music, Potsdam 2025
=> https://designing-voices.nowitz.de/
Bbrrmm
a sounding utopia in the countryside for 2 celli & 3 nature dominating instruments, premiered in Paretz May 4, 2025
=> https://nowitz.de/bbrrmm
a concert performance for voice, live electronics (strophonion), clarinets, quartertone accordion & double bass, St. Matthäus-Kirche Berlin, 2024
=> https://nowitz.de/die-erweiterte-kammer
Die Praxis des Expermientalliedes
a concert performance for voice, live electronics (strophonion), picc., concert and alto flute, extended piano and video, Französische Kirche Potsdam 2024
=> https://nowitz.de/die-praxis-des-experimentalliedes
DESIGNING VOICES: Vokalaktionen
Int. festival for vocal performance art, sound & music, Potsdam 2023
=> https://designing-voices-2023.nowitz.de/
Die Kammer
for clarinet & accordion
[The chamber] premiere performance by klarinette-akkordeon plus (Matthias Badzcong & Christine Paté), intersonanzen Potsdam 2023
for large orchestra
[I am the people] CD publication "Brandenburg – NEUE MUSIK orchestral" interpreted by Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg [German Film Orchestra Babelsberg], conducted by Christian Köhler—a co-production by DFOB & Brandenburgischer Verein für Neue Musik [Brandenburgian Association for New Music], Potsdam 2023
=> https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/ich-bin-das-volk
for voice, piccolo & alto flute, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & video, premiere Klosterscheune Zehdenick 2022
=> https://vimeo.com/1046125557
(documentation of a later performance)
Vom Glühen der Glut
[On the glowing of the embers] for orchestra and smartphones, premiere Kammerakadmie Potsdam 2022
=> https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/vom-gluehen-der-glut
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021
=> https://designing-voices-2021.nowitz.de/
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019
=> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/492687/559795/0/0
Unruhe ist
print version of the stringquartet (1999), at the instance of a performance of KAIROS, Berlin, May 16, at the intersonanzen (Brandenburgian festival for new music) in the museum Barberini Potsdam 2025
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOY5sVaQLw
Berlin 2024
https://soundcloud.com/antonis-anissegos/sets/ano
Radio Kapitał, Warsaw 2023
https://radiokapital.pl/shows/eksperymentalna-audycja-literacka/34-alex-nowitz/
A.N., Designing Voices Berlin, 6 Nov. 2021 — Photo: Sebastian Rausch
