Multivocal Voice and Sound Dance

- A conversation in German language -

Alex Nowitz, composer-performer, voice artist, whistling virtuoso, tenor and countertenor, discusses concepts, strategies and examples of his work between solo performance and instrumental theatre, composed structure, improvisation and gesture-controlled live electronics in a live streamed conversation with music curator and cultural manager Matthias Osterwold.

Matthias Osterwold is cultural manager and music curator. He was the founder and artistic director of 'MaerzMusik - Festival for Contemporary Music' at the Berliner Festspiele from 2001 to 2014. From 2011 to 2018 he was artistic director of 'Klangspuren_Schwaz - Tyrolean Festival for New Music' and for the years 2018 to 2020 he was music curator in the artistic team of the Ruhrtriennale.

Alex Nowitz, Schloss-Wiepersdorf fellow 2020, is a composer of vocal, chamber and electroacoustic music as well as for multidisciplinary installation concerts, opera, dance, and spoken theatre. He is also a vocal artist, tenor, countertenor and whistling virtuoso. In February 2019, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis Monsters I Love: On multivocal arts at the University of the Arts in Stockholm, in which he explored the possibilities of expanding the performance voice.

All works and performances mentioned in the talk can be watched in full length here: https://vimeo.com/alexnowitz
- Studies for a Self-Portrait
- Panache
- Untitled
- Kaspar

Website of the artist: https://nowitz.de
Doctoral thesis 'Monsters I Love: On multivocal arts': https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/492687/559795
More information on the 'Strophonion': https://econtact.ca/18_3/nowitz_strophonion.html

The talk took place in the framework of the Schloss Wiepersdorf Virtual Residency Program 2020 through Zoom and live stream. In German.