Latest news - Mathis Nitschke

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Nov 19

The Ayşe X State Theatre is inaugurated!

The AYSE X State Theatre sees itself as an alternative to existing theatre structures, norms, systems and as an introduction to the theatre of the future.

AYSE X State Theatre is a theatre in which inclusion, equal rights and diversity are of paramount importance on both an institutional and creative level.

Members of the independent scene as well as institutionally connected, established and also new members of the German-speaking theatre scene are involved in the implementation of this project, e.g. Julia Wissert (designated artistic director Schauspiel Dortmund), Necati Öziri (author and director of the International Forum of the Berliner Festspiele), Sivan Ben Yishai (house author Nationaltheater Mannheim), Thelma Buabeng (actress Schauspielhaus Zürich), Rania Mleihi (dramaturg Theater an der Ruhr), Mehmet and Kazim (visual artists), Guy Dermosessian (director of Diversity Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf), Nazareth Hassan (Stückemarkt 2019 Berliner Theatertreffen) and others.

The AYSE X State Theatre is coordinated by Emre Akal (director and author) and Antigone Akgün (dramaturg).

From 21 to 24 November 2019, the AYSE X Staatstheater will manifest itself in the premises of the Munich HochX Theater with the world premiere of Emre Akal’s play “Only you know if we made it or not!”, for which I contributed the music.

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Oct 19

“Small Places” plays the entire catalogue of ECM Records

https://smallplaces.art/ has been online since 18 October 2019 12 o’clock Korean time. My installation “Small Places” is part of the exhibition RE:ECM @ Storage by Hyundai card in Seoul, Korea. Over the next 4 months it will play the entire catalogue of ECM Records, via the website you can listen live.

More info: https://mathis-nitschke.com/en/small-places/

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Oct 19

RE:ECM @ Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, South Korea

In this group exhibition at Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, six artists reflect on the meanwhile 50-year-old oeuvre of the record label ECM Records. Instead of – as the poster suggests – presenting relics and devotional objects from the history of ECM, we try to pour the meaning and effects that ECM has had and still has on our work and life into our own artistic positions.

In my sound installation “Small Places” the listening human becomes the object of art. Almost incidentally, it plays the complete catalogue of ECM (we talk about more than 8 weeks of continuously playing music). How this looks and works, and how you can participate in it from a distance, I will explain in my next post after the opening on 17 October.

In a second work in collaboration with digital artist Lars Ullrich, we analyze the horizontal movement within the music, the “flow“, and transform it into suggestive digital animations that draw the visitors fully into the music. Also here visual material after the opening.

Come and see us! From 17 October at the Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul, South Korea.

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Oct 19

The Suction of War – A Family History

After intensive two weeks I now check the finished print master of the cinema mix for Christoph Boekel’s documentary film “Sog des Krieges – Eine Familiengeschichte”. After having produced the music for the film at the beginning of the summer, I now took care of its sound design and mixing.

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Sep 19

Small Places – the complete ECM catalogue on my harddisc

What a humbling experience: the entire catalogue ever produced by ECM Records as flac files on my hard disc. The music produced in the 50 years of its history takes more then 8 weeks to listen through! If you listen 24/7 … And that’s exactly what my installation “Small Places” will do, to be opened mid October at Storage by Hyundai Card in Seoul: it’ll play all ECM albums there exist, many of them having shaped my musical thinking profoundly. Thank you, Manfred Eicher!

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Aug 19

Summer in Munich with two Augmented Reality Apps in public space

“Augmented Reality and Opera in the middle of Munich: two projects by the artist Mathis Nitschke transform familiar places into locations for audiovisual experiences”.

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Sommer in München in der SZ vom 8.8.2019

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Aug 19

Music production for a cinema documentary film

For my composition and production of the music for a documentary film I recorded the soloists Roman Bunka on the oud, Marine-Amélie Lenoir on the oboe, Maria Reiter on the accordion and Sachiko Hara on the piano. Listen to a few excerpts here: