Simon Bahr

"Counterfeits, Cover-Ups & Karaoke" is composed of various tiny elements of sound or notation stolen from other peoples music. To cover up this massive theft, Adele and I try to distract your attention by offering counterfeits of familiar musical brands and making the piano sing karaoke... Will we get away with it? Written for and played by Adele Thoma. Recorded on 07.06.2024 by Ahmetcan Gökçeer....

"Counterfeits, Cover-Ups & Karaoke" is composed of various tiny elements of sound or notation stolen from other peoples music. To cover up this massive theft, Adele and I try to distract your attention by offering counterfeits of familiar musical brands and making the piano sing karaoke... Will we get away with it? Written for and played by Adele Thoma. Recorded at ZKM Kubus, Karlsruhe, on 07.06.2...

"Remote Control" is an invitation for the performer to switch back and forth between performing and listening: All 49 keys of a midi-keyboard trigger sounds, projected by a midi-piano and a loudspeaker. In different parts of the piece, these mini-compositions are used as note-like musical events or are simply listened to one by one. In the latter case, the performer becomes a listener, using the m...

"Mixtape" was composed around various snippets of existing music, trying to rethink and combine them in a fluid musical continuum. They were selected by the members of the ensemble and myself and found their way into the score – in the form of very radically transformed rhythmic and melodic fragments – as well as into the electronic beats played on the keyboard – in the form of very short and unid...

The piece Well-Planned Theft for stolen and synthesised sounds deals with productive piracy and looks for aesthetic potentials in the notation – in this case in itself not necessary – of electronic music. It is a stereo composition consisting mainly of sounds taken from various pop songs. These more or less short sound particles are all chosen in such a way that they do not allow any conclusion to...

Fabian Bentrup: Podcast mit Simon Bahr by Simon Bahr

"Scrollbar" is a short solo piece written for Javad Javadzade as part one of his project "lockdown miniatures".

improvised performance with analog hifi-mixers and computer In No-Input-Mixing, the outputs of a mixer are connected to its inputs, creating feedback loops. Various different sounds can emerge, with different volume faders now controlling pitch, rhythm and spectral features of a sound. Fillin’ the Feedback Form confronts this wild and often unpredictabil instrument with highly organised digital al...

improvised performance with analog hifi-mixers and computer In No-Input-Mixing, the outputs of a mixer are connected to its inputs, creating feedback loops. Various different sounds can emerge, with different volume faders now controlling pitch, rhythm and spectral features of a sound. Fillin’ the Feedback Form confronts this wild and often unpredictabil instrument with highly organised digital al...

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Simon Bahr