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]
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
A. Nowitz & A. Anissegos
Photo: Thor Egil Leirtrø—A. Nowitz with strophonion, Trondheim 2024, www.ThorEgilPhoto.com
![Score of 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra by A.Nowitz, 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 'Ich bin das Volk' [I am the people] for large orchestra by A.Nowitz, 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 Dield Music
![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
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)
Frontcover of the flyer of DESIGNING VOICES 2025
![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)
!["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
English version
=> https://nowitz.de/statement-in-english
=> https://nowitz.de/statement-in-english
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
=> 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
2024
Die erweiterte Kammer
a concert performance for voice, live electronics (strophonion), clarinets, quartertone accordion & double bass, St. Matthäus-Kirche Berlin, 2024
=> https://nowitz.de/die-erweiterte-kammer
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
2023
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
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
=> https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/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
=> https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz/ich-bin-das-volk
2022
Doubles & Drones from the Desert
for voice, piccolo & alto flute, gesture-controlled live electronics (strophonion) & video, premiere Klosterscheune Zehdenick 2022
=> https://vimeo.com/1046125557
(documentation of a later performance)
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
2021
Designing Voices
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021
=> https://designing-voices-2021.nowitz.de/
international festival for vocal performance art, sound and music,
Potsdam & Berlin 2021
=> https://designing-voices-2021.nowitz.de/
2020
2019
Monsters I Love: On mulivocal arts
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019
=> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/492687/559795/0/0
documented artistic research project, Stockholm 2019
=> https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/492687/559795/0/0
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ALL WORKS & PROJECTS
from 2025 to 2019
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RECENT RECORDINGS & PUBLICATIONS
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
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOY5sVaQLw
stringquartet (1999) performed by KAIROS, Berlin, May 16, as part of the intersonanzen (Brandenburgian festival for new music) at the museum Barberini Potsdam 2025
=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOY5sVaQLw
2024
aNo (Antonis Anissegos & Alex Nowitz)
Berlin 2024
=> https://soundcloud.com/antonis-anissegos/sets/ano
Berlin 2024
=> https://soundcloud.com/antonis-anissegos/sets/ano
2023
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/
Radio Kapitał, Warsaw 2023
=> https://radiokapital.pl/shows/eksperymentalna-audycja-literacka/34-alex-nowitz/
2022
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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