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… and the music keeps on playing on and on …

As a student I had made it my habit not to turn off the music when I left the apartment but the album I was listening to had not yet come to an end. To me it seemed disrespectful towards the music to just turn it off. What was brought into oscillation should be allowed to finish. On the creation of "Small Places", a sound installation for ECM Records‘ 50th anniversary as part of the RE:ECM exhibition at Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, Korea, 2019.

Mathis Nitschke 7. November 2019
Interactivext

Experimenta Explorer App

I created sound and music for the "experimenta explorer", a VR/AR app for Germany’s largest science center in Heilbronn, the experimenta. The app works twofold – as a virtual stroll through the newly constructed building and as a stand-alone game. In the game mode, players get to find out more about select exhibits while assembling a robot from parts they find/win. With their robot they can play through several levels – all in augmented reality.

Mathis Nitschke 30. September 2019
Music for the stagext

Against Hate

"Sometimes I ask myself how they can do that: to hate so much. How they can be so sure. Because that's what the haters must be: safe. Otherwise they wouldn't speak like that, hurt like that, murder like that. They must be sure. Without any doubt. Doubtful of hate cannot be hated." On the basis of concrete incidents, Emcke examines institutional racism, group-related misanthropy and disregard and finally pleads for a heterogeneous society and humanism.

Mathis Nitschke 22. September 2019
Music for the stagext

Return to Reims

Didier Eribon's book of the same name was published in German in 2016 and quickly became a bestseller. The resulting debate about the socially "dependent", who are overflowing to the right-wing camp, continues to be lively. In the theatre version by director Thomas Jonigk we bring Eribon's hybrid narrative between sociological study, emotional-biographical narrative of a boy growing up in a homophobic environment and pure poetry to the stage of Schauspiels Köln.

Mathis Nitschke 12. January 2019
Blogxt

Music theatre and Digitality

The change from linearity to non-linearity associated with digitalization is accompanied by a change in the perception of art and culture. We now have the chance to shape our co-existence with the algorithms, not only socially and politically, but also artistically.

Mathis Nitschke 18. November 2018
BlogMusic theatrext

MAYA – Documentary

Documentary film maker Felix Hentschel accompanied the production of the Mixed-Reality-Techno-Opera MAYA and held talks with the artists involved. The resulting film (ca. 40 min) illuminates the development of the Maya character and provides insights into the conception of the music and the design of the MAYA augmented reality app.

Mathis Nitschke 17. April 2018