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Oct 25
CORPUS LIVE on 27 October 2025
The Future of Music Licensing in the Age of AI – Explained in One Evening
If you’ve heard of CORPUS before, probably not much. And what you’ve heard might have sounded complex. It is.
We’re building a complete ecosystem – one that connects musicians, authors, and creators with users, industrial partners, and AI developers. All within a shared data and value cycle.
The diagram below shows exactly that: how music becomes data, how data turns into value – and how that value flows back to the people who make it possible.
On October 27, we’ll present the full system at CORPUS LIVE at Munich’s Schwere Reiter. With a keynote by Matthias Hornschuh, music by Tetra Brass and the Paranormal String Quartet, and insights into the Contribution Platform.
Free entry, please register here: https://rausgegangen.de/en/events/corpuslive-0/
Full programm: https://crps.ai/live
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Jun 25
CORPUS is here
CORPUS is here — a new project for anyone who believes that the future of music should be shaped with artists, not against them.
I’ve spent my life exploring how new technologies can open artistic spaces — from opera and sound installations to immersive environments. Now, with AI changing the rules of creative work, the question becomes urgent: how do we make sure this shift benefits musicians?
CORPUS is our answer. We’re building the first high-quality, ethical, and legally compliant music corpus for AI training — created by real musicians who are fairly rewarded for their work. No scraping. No exploitation. Just a system where artists are at the center of innovation.
AI can’t replace creativity — but it can unlock new forms of expression. With the right foundation, we can build tools that expand what’s possible, not just automate what already exists.
CORPUS is not just a dataset. It’s a movement. A way to make sure that AI in music reflects real artistic values — and remains rooted in the human practice of sound.
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Jul 24
Artist Taryn Simon: The Art Of Mourning
Louisiana Channel released the documentary about Taryn Simon and her sound installation “Start Again The Lament” which I helped her realize in the Cisternerne Kopenhagen.
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Jul 24
Today’s Premiere in Aix-en-Provence: SAMSON
Today, the opera “Samson” by and after Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) celebrates its world premiere at the Theatre L’Archêveché in Aix-en-Provence.
Info: https://festival-aix.com/en/programmation/opera/samson
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Jun 24
Be Safe With Us
At the end of June, Gesche Piening will be premiering a new theater work in Zirka, the center for interdisciplinary spatial and cultural work in the Kreativquartier, where she will set up a theater course of six panic rooms in which the audience can take a one-hour tour in a risk-free environment to confront their fears, examine their perceptions and become aware of their multi-layered need for protection, stability and security.
I have contributed a bit of music to this, including the one heard in the trailer.
World premiere
Friday, June 28, 2024 from 3.30 pm
Saturday, June 29, 2024 from 3.30 pm
at ZIRKA (Dachauer Str. 110 c, 80636 Munich)
The course starts every 10 minutes from 3.30 pm and lasts 60 minutes from start to finish.
Tickets are available here:
t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/shop/hochx-theater-und-live-art=sei+uns+sicher
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Apr 24
Samson Sound Design Recordings
A wonderfully productive night recording session with the fantastic percussionist Mathias Lachenmayr in his pop up studio. We recorded unusual sounds from percussion instruments, for example played with super ball, for the upcoming „Samson“ music theatre piece conceived and directed by Claus Guth to be premiered 5th of July at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, composed and conducted by Raphael Pichon.
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Mar 24
Another day in the office
Hello from the huge Copenhagen cistern, where I am currently realizing Taryn Simon’s large-scale sound installation “Start Again The Lament“.
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Sep 23
Farewell, Doppelgänger
Farewell, Doppelgänger, I’m heading home. Thank you, Claus Guth, for the trust you have given me. Thank you Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch for your incredible talent and musical beauty, and again for trusting me. Thank you Park Avenue Armory for making this project possible by giving trust to Claus and Jonas.
In the end, isn’t it always about trust?
Thank you Mark Grey, Michael Levine, Urs Schönebaum, Roland Harvath, Yvonne Gebauer, Sommer Ulrickson, Constance Hoffmann and Juana Restrepo and many more for being great collaborators!
Performance photos by Monika Rittershaus.
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Sep 23
About Doppelgänger in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Thanks to Jutta Czeguhn for this beautiful article about our “little” endeavor here in New York.
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Aug 23
Doppelgänger @ Armory Hall, NYC
Schubert’s “Swan Song” as music theater
World premiere Sept 22, 2023, Park Avenue Armory, New York City
with Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor) and Helmut Deutsch (Piano)
Direction Claus Guth
Set Design Michael Levine
Costume Design Constance Hoffman
Lighting Design Urs Schöenebaum
Sound Composition Mathis Nitschke
Sound Design Mark Grey
Video Design rocafilm
Movement Direction Sommer Ulrickson
Dramaturgy Yvonne Gebauer
Franz Schubert’s ” Swan Song” is a collection of songs written in 1828 – the year of the composer’s death. The starting point of our narrative is a military hospital where men stand between life and death, as if caught in a time loop. Jonas Kaufmann, one of the men, experiences an emotional journey through moments of happiness and disappointment during this stagnant time. At first, he finds comfort in memories of his lover and nature, but in the second half of the evening he sinks more and more into pain and loss, expressed in songs like the one about the “unhappy Atlas.” He encounters himself shortly before his death, in a final moment of shock and realization.
I contribute sound compositions based on Schubert’s music, which connect the songs and offer the possibility of scenic design. We have already conceived and launched the piece for a premiere in 2020. Now finally the evening is coming out and I am admittedly very excited!