rdd – robodynamic diffusion

The RDD system utilizes a custom built uni-directional speaker that produces a tightly focused beam of sound, like a sonic spotlight, which can be robotically aimed in any direction from any single position within the performance space. This robotic speaker is in effect a mobile soloist, however the resulting experience upends expectations: cast into the […]

encourage the stream – kunsthalle baden-baden

Encourage The Stream (2021) by Jan St. Werner, half of the electronic music group Mouse on Mars, functions as an acoustic amplification of the Oos River, which flows through the park as the heart of Baden-Baden and shapes its nature. In an attempt to communicate with the Oos, Werner places a microphone just above the […]

Imperium Droop – Thrill Jockey

Thrill-549 – 2021 The duo of John Colpitts aka Kid Millions and Jan St. Werner brings together the minds of two mavericks committed to exploring new avenues of musical expression. Kid Millions is one of the most sought after drummers and improvisors in NYC, known for his expansive solo work as Man Forever, as well […]

Alchemical – bitforms gallery

bitforms gallery is pleased to introduce ​Alchemical​, a collaborative exhibition by Casey Reas and Jan St. Werner. ​Alchemical presents the artists’ suite of videos alongside a selection of prints by Casey Reas. The online component of this exhibition is presented in collaboration with New Art City. Untitled Film Stills are a series of prints that […]

compressed cinema – reas & werner

Compressed Cinema is the series title for five new audiovisual works completing in 2020. The video images were created by Casey REAS, and each work has a stereo audio track composed by Jan St. Werner. The images for the videos were derived from a set of “film stills” created by Casey REAS with generative adversarial […]

Molocular Meditation – Editions Mego

Molocular Meditation, LP, 2020 Molocular Meditation is a bespoke light and sound environment featuring the voice of the Fall’s Mark E Smith. Smith is heard making observations on mundane objects, events and a range of meditation techniques basically associating his discontent with an apolitical british upper class. His voice forms the narrative component of an […]

The Spatio Sensory Soundcheck – HKW

Sound becomes a spatial experience, band structures are deconstructed, a brand new sound technology celebrates its premiere in art: In 2018, Jan St. Werner, part of the duo Mouse on Mars, listened to a festival sound check by the US indie rock band The National. Echoes, voices and acoustic artifacts overlapped, songs were begun and […]

Glottal Wolpertinger – fiepblatter catalogue #6

Glottal Wolpertinger was initially conceived as a radio installation for documenta 14, with each of the tracks broadcasting individually over the course of ten weeks and culminating in a convergence of all eight tracks at a performance in Athens. The pieces consist of microtonally tuned feedback, multispectral drones which Werner modulated and filtered with a […]

central spark in the dark – WDR

Für Schlagzeug und Elektronik – Kompositionsauftrag des WDR – UA Dirk Rothbrust – Schlagzeug Jan St. Werner – Elektronik & Komposition Samstag, 23.02.2019 WDR Funkhaus Köln & WDR3 Radio https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/veranstaltungen/musik-der-zeit-346.html »central spark in the dark« erkundet und dynamisiert die Beziehungen zwischen Elektronik und Akustik, zwischen Klang aus den Lautsprechern und Perkussionsinstrumenten, zwischen den Reflexionen im Raum […]

Periodic Composite Waveform Environment – Ultima Festival

Ensemble neoN & Jan St. Werner feat. Dynamische Akustische Forschung – Periodic Composite Waveform Environment (WP) Henie Onstad Kunstsenter15 & 16 September 2018 https://ultima.no/en/events/ensemble-neon-and-jan-st-werner-wp Experimental electronic composer Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars, Lithops, Microstoria) and Ensemble neoN collaborate on an unconventional performance format that includes new compositions, improvisation, spatial arrangements and interventions from Werner’s class […]

dissolve music – MIT

Dissolve Music @ MIT is a two-and-a-half-day conference and sound festival, March 7-9, 2018, to bring together musicians, sound creators, and scholars of music and sound studies to discuss the diversity of music and experimental sound. Combining art and scholarship in a spirit of dialogue and controversy, the conference aims to dissolve boundaries between different […]

Spectric Acid – fiepblatter catalogue #5

Spectric Acid, CD, 2017 Jan St. Werner summons flux and fragmentation on Spectric Acid, building up the record’s blistering, locomotive beat structures around the correlation of musical spectra. Their movements triggered in part by peaks in frequency envelopes, rhythms buckle and fracture according to a complex logic that slides past aural perception and harmonic resolution; a “phenomenological […]

Dynamische Akustische Forschung – Akademie der bildenden Künste nürnberg

Project based class led by Jan St. Werner at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg Germany. DAF explores sound as an unstable art form which merges with other disciplines and yet makes strong claims for disciplinary autonomy. A critical awareness is developed of how sound as a field for artistic exploration is performed, produced, and distributed. https://daf.adbk-nuernberg.de/ The class explores contemporary and historical […]

Glottal Wolpertinger – documenta 14

Glottal Wolpertinger (multi-fragmented composition, commission for documenta 14, 2017) Jan St. Werner, composition, computer Aaron Dessner, guitar Bryce Dessner, prerecorded guitar Glottal Wolpertinger deconstructs the principle of the musical drone, the timelessly dense, continuously spreading mass of sound, and uses idiosyncratic spatial movements to break with the linear narrative of music. Eight microtonally tuned feedback […]

NOISEMASHINETAPES

Collages, sound pieces and videos by Jan St. Werner. ACID DECEIT kassette was released on Mouse on Mars & Frank Dommert’s Sonig label in an edition of 100 on the occasion of A-Musik‘s 20th anniversary, Oct 3rd 2015. Tape Digital An archive of Noisemashinetapes cutup experiments is hosted by Chickenhed. Noisemashinetapes “Live at Farbvision” CD can be ordered […]