Publications
Electronic Counterpoint
Recordings of the Concert "Electronic Counterpoint"in the concert series reiheM/ Köln
New music for recorder and electronics
be Ulrich Krieger, Marc Sabat, Manfred Stahnke, Georg Hajdu and Sascha Lemke
CD release: april 2011 at label satelita www.satelita.de
a-musik Köln www.a-musik.com/cart/catalog.php
Ensemble Dialog - A Documentary
Ensemble Dialog - musicians from China,
Switzerland and Germany with pipa (Lingling Yu), recorder, cello (Francesco Bartoletti) and percussion (Nicolas Curti)
A tour through China- can
be witnessed at www.vimeo.com/7591482.
Rose van Jhericho - Das Liederbuch der Anna von Köln (about 1500)
Ars Choralis Coeln - ensemble for medieval music
voice: Cora Schmeiser, Uta Kirsten, Petra Koerdt, Mikari Shibukawa,
Pamela Petsch, Inga Schneider, Amanda Simmons, Stefanie Brijoux, Elodie
Mourot, Katherine Hill, Karolina Brachmann
recorder, bells, voice: Lucia Mense
dulcimer: Elisabeth Seitz
harp: Johanna Seitz
fiddle: Susanna Ansorg
musical director, voice, symphonia: Maria Jonas
"If competence, carefulness and passion come together, authentic
songs are being sung with pure joy, songs telling about ancient
yearning, dreams and fears - in the case of luck there can result
something as beautiful as the cd "Rose van Jhericho"
Sächsische Zeitung Dresden
"The instrumental accompagniment is improvised on the highest artistic level. By the sensitiv use of harp, dulcimer, recorder and fiddle the melodies - supernatural beauties in themselfs - appear to be plunged in heavenly light. A most impressive recording." - Bernhard Morbach, Kulturradio am Mittag
released: june 2007, raumklang, www.raumklang.de
rewarded the Choc - Le Monde da la Musique, 5 Diapason
Example: 9. In Dulce Jubilo (mp3, approx. 1 MB)
Letare Germania - Music of the middle ages for Elizabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231)
voice: Karolina Brachmann, Elodie Mourot, Pamela Petsch, Stefanie Brijoux, Uta Kirsten, Petra Koerdt
symphonia/ voice: Juliane Rothmaler
flutes/ voice: Lucia Mense
fiddle/ bells: Susanne Ansorg
musical director/voice: Maria Jonas
Elizabeth of Thuringia is one of the most important saints of the middle ages in Europe. The renownend women ensemble Ars Choralis Coeln presents in this recording music that was being composed from the 13th till the 15th century in honour of Elizabeth. A fascinating tour through the musical cosmos of the middle ages!
released: june 2007, edition chrismon, www.chrismon.de
Example: 5. Inviatorum - Regi Deo iubilatis (mp3, approx. 1 MB)
The complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas & Works for Solo Instruments by Luciano Berio
a.o.: “Gesti” for
recorder
co-production of Mode Records/ New York, Hessischer Rundfunk, radio bremen,
WDR, DeutschlandRadio
www.moderecords.com
released: may 2006
other performers: Irvine Arditti, Allain Billard, Michael Cameron, Jane Chapman, Stuart Dempster, Rohan de Saram, William Forman, Isabelle Ganz, Stefan Hussong, Susan Jolles, Seth Josel, Garth Knox, Ulrich Krieger, Jacqueline Leclair, Brian McWohrter, Carol Robinson, Paula Robison, Stefano Scodanibbio, Noriko Shimada, Aki Takahashi, Kelland Thomas, Gary Verkade
rewarded the Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2007
and Premio del Disco Amadeus 2008
Komponisten-Portrait Phill Niblock
a.o.: “Lucid
Sea” (descant, alto, tenor, bass and contrabass recorders)
other performers: Seth Josel - electric guitar, Ulrich Krieger - saxophone,
Arne Deforce - cello, Martin Zrost - saxophone, Franz Hautzinger - trumpet,
Julia Eckhardt - viola
co-production of Touch Records /London and Deutschlandfunk
released: 2006, www.touchmusic.org.uk
www.phillniblock.com
These nine pieces were made from March 2003 to June 2005. They were all made by recording a single instrument with a single microphone. The recordings were direct to the computer hard disk, most of them using my Powerbook G4, Protools, an M-box and an external firewire drive. The resulting mono sound files were editet to remove breathing spaces, leaving the natural decay of the tone and the attack of the subsequent iteration of the same tone. Each piece uses a few tones. A simple chord, perhaps. Additional microtonal intervals were produced in Protools using pitch shift. The pieces were assembled in multitracks, usually either 24 or 32 tracks. The environment varied from a simple appartement in Berlin (Ulrich Krieger´s) to a very large hall used for symphony orchestra performances and recordings, with a sizable audience space (Deutschland Radio, Cologne). The recordings were generally done quite closely miked.
Virtuoso
instrumental music of the italian early baroque
Lucia Mense (recorder), Antje Plieg-Oemig (viola da gamba),
Thomas Rudolph (organ)
sempre la musica Recordings
canzonas and sonatas composed by Frescobaldi, Merula, Cazzati, Picchi and others
released in 2002
...Until...
Three
Versions of „...Until...“ by Clarence Barlow
Kristi Becker (piano), Lucia Mense (flute), Seth Josel (guitar).-
CD Los Angeles River Records LaL2-12
released: 2001
…until… was conceived in 1972 as a variable piece. It consists essentially of a cycle of pitches, initially highly consonant to a given drone, but gradually increasing in dissonance. At the final, most dissonant stage, a small shift in the drone reveals that the cycle has now become a phase-shifted transposition of the original. This “minimal” composition exists as an instructional text as well as (to date) nine realised versions.