Alex Nowitz with the gesture-controlled live electronics called "strophonion" (photo by Oscar Loeser).
Alex Nowitz with the gesture-controlled live electronics called "strophonion" (photo by Oscar Loeser).
![The strophonion – a gesture-controlled live electronics by Alex 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 Alex Nowitz. This model has been manufactured at STEIM in 2014 by Nicolò Merendino [cases] and Sukandar Kartadinata [electronics]. Image by Janina Janke.
![Image from Alex Nowitz’ 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 Alex Nowitz’ string quartet "Unruhe ist" [disquietness is]
Matthias Bauer (db) ©Peter Gannushkin, Matthias Badczong (cl) & Christine Paté (accord) ©T. Tarczynski, Alex Nowitz (vce, electr) ©Oscar Loeser
Antonella Manacorda & Kammerakademie Potsdam premiering Alex Nowitz' "Vom Glühen der Glut" ©Beate Maetzel
Alex Nowitz & Antonis Anissegos
Photo: Thor Egil Leirtrø—A. Nowitz with strophonion, Trondheim 2024, www.ThorEgilPhoto.com
![Score of Alex Nowitz: 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra, recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (comp. 2021; publ. 2023)](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/dab225a1-11f9-46e4-b073-f0b65a2c007b_rw_1920.png?h=1fe07d0a4f9afae6964ff6bc5caeae15)
Score of Alex Nowitz: 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra, recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (comp. 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]
Mathis Mayr and Sophie Notte performing Alex Nowitz: "bbrrmm" @Paretzer Field Music
![Part for playing the chainsaw from Alex Nowitz: "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)
Part for playing the chainsaw from Alex Nowitz: "bbrrmm: Eine Klangutopie auf dem Land" [sound utopia in the country-side] for 2 cello players and 3 nature dominating instruments
Still image of Alex 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)
Frontcover of the flyer of DESIGNING VOICES 2025, curated by Alex Nowitz
![Score excerpt of Alex Nowitz: "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 Alex Nowitz: "Unfrei im Raum" [Unfree in space] for sax quartet
Poster of MASUAL: Sukandar Kartadinata (git), Matthias Bauer (db) & Alex Nowitz (vce, electr)
Cover from the vimeo site of Alex Nowitz: “Seven Entries: From the diary of a sound poet”
![Matthias Bauer & Alex Nowitz during the recording of the playback for the duet composition 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo Sabine Vogel](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/0d0ef216-635d-45e2-b581-8e43fc9ce571/91cf575f-47fa-47dd-9b7d-de95f6944960_rw_3840.jpeg?h=c8ad3664587fffbd539e7b6b01402f9f)
Matthias Bauer & Alex Nowitz during the recording of the playback for the duet composition 'Zum guten Klang des Tons' [On the good sound of clay] – photo Sabine Vogel
Cover of the lecture Alex Nowitz: "Sounding the Human Potential"
Frontpage of the chapter Alex Nowitz: “Assemblages of Multivocal and Schizophonic Practices: Unleashing the Machined Voice” in: 'Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3', ed. by Paulo de Assis & Paulo Giudici/Orpheus Institute (Leuven University Press 2021)
!["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/d33ad8a7-1207-4c0a-b115-9f1a7e5f59aa_rw_3840.jpg?h=e418e8bf4b8800e43b89c5620947c83c)
"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
all about BIRDS = Sabine Vogel, Alex Nowitz & Meinrad Kneer (Paretzer Field Music 2024) © Susanne Fröhlich
MAJOR WORKS & PROJECTS
from 2025 to 2019
2025
DESIGNING VOICES: Klangsinne
Int. festival for vocal performance art, sound & music, Potsdam 2025
program note ©Alex Nowitz
score excerpt ©Alex Nowitz
note stand with the part for the chainsaw ©Alex Nowitz
Rike Bechem ©Alex Nowitz
Bbrrmm
a sounding utopia in the countryside for 2 celli & 3 nature dominating instruments, premiered in Paretz May 4, 2025
a sounding utopia in the countryside for 2 celli & 3 nature dominating instruments, premiered in Paretz May 4, 2025
2024
Die erweiterte Kammer
a concert performance for voice, live electronics (strophonion), clarinets, quartertone accordion & double bass, St. Matthäus-Kirche Berlin, 2024
a concert performance for voice, live electronics (strophonion), clarinets, quartertone accordion & double bass, St. Matthäus-Kirche Berlin, 2024
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
2023
DESIGNING VOICES: Vokalaktionen
Int. festival for vocal performance art, sound & music, Potsdam 2023
Die Kammer
for clarinet & accordion
[The chamber] premiere performance by klarinette-akkordeon plus (Matthias Badzcong & Christine Paté), intersonanzen Potsdam 2023
Ich bin das Volk
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
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
2022
Doubles & Drones from the Desert
for voice, piccolo & alto flute, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & video, premiere Klosterscheune Zehdenick 2022
for voice, piccolo & alto flute, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & video, premiere Klosterscheune Zehdenick 2022
(documentation of a later performance)
Vom Glühen der Glut
[On the glowing of the embers] for orchestra and smartphones, premiere Kammerakadmie Potsdam 2022
2021
Designing Voices
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021
2020
2019
Monsters I Love: On mulivocal arts
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019
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ALL WORKS & PROJECTS
from 2025 to 2019
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FURTHER PUBLICATIONS & RECORDINGS
2025
Alex Nowitz: UNRUHE IST (1999/2026), Büroklammer_pict
Alex Nowitz: UNRUHE IST (1999/2026), Satz V-pict
Alex Nowitz: UNRUHE IST (1999/2026), Satz II-pict
Alex Nowitz: UNRUHE IST (1999/2026), Viola auf dem Schoß-pict
Unruhe ist
stringquartet (1999) performed by KAIROS, Berlin, May 16, as part of the intersonanzen (Brandenburgian festival for new music) at the museum Barberini Potsdam 2025
stringquartet (1999) performed by KAIROS, Berlin, May 16, as part of the intersonanzen (Brandenburgian festival for new music) at the museum Barberini Potsdam 2025
2024
aNo (Antonis Anissegos & Alex Nowitz)
recording from Berlin 2024
recording from Berlin 2024
2023
A radio feature by Lena Czerniawska presenting music by Alex Nowitz
Radio Kapitał, Warsaw 2023
Radio Kapitał, Warsaw 2023
2022
Alex Nowitz in conversation with Volker Straebel
(Dean of Music CalArts) at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2022
discussing Sieben Eintragungen: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Lautklangkünstlers
(Dean of Music CalArts) at the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2022
discussing Sieben Eintragungen: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Lautklangkünstlers
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MORE DETAILED INFORMATION
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Alex Nowitz, Designing Voices Berlin, 6 Nov. 2021 — Photo: Sebastian Rausch
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ENQUIRIES
(scores, booking, etc.)
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Still image of Alex Nowitz performing 'Panache' for voice solo, from a video recording by Oscar Loeser
© Alex Nowitz, 2026