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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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, 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 […]
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/ DAF publication “Walking in Cinematic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Documentation of the concert by Jan St. Werner at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein on January 29, 2017 Jan St. Werner is an artist and musician. He became internationally known in 1993 as the co-founder of the innovative and groundbreaking electro-duo Mouse on Mars, who until today have released more than a dozen albums and gave concerts […]
Felder, CD, 2016 “Felder” means “fields” in German, and here the word refers to conceptual frameworks and subjects, and sound fields. Werner is a cultivator — a farmer — of the various sounds, from metal scratched on a big glass window to piano phrases found on a private Popul Vuh compilation. He mixes organic sounds […]
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) is an academic program and hub of critical art practice and discourse. Through an integrated approach to pedagogy, hosting, public event programming, and publication, ACT builds a community of artist-thinkers around the exploration of art’s complex conjunctions with culture and technology. The program’s mission is […]
Von Auditionen und anderen akustischen Wahrnehmungen, die nicht aus der materiellen Welt kommen Hörstück von Thomas Knoefel und Jan St. Werner SWR2 ars acustica, 2016 Komposition und Realisation: Jan St. Werner, Texte: Thomas Knoefel, Stimme: Kathleen Morgeneyer SWR 2 studio version Live performance featuring Matt Wand
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(Experiment of an electro-acoustic composition in commemoration of Sigmar Polke) by Jan St. Werner and Damo Suzuki APRIL 23 rd – JULY 5th 2015 MUSEUM ABTEIBERG MOENCHENGLADBACH The singer Damo Suzuki, originally from Japan, was the singer of the band CAN from 1970 to 1973. He developed the improvised singing in psychedelic music, disappeared for ten […]
Electroacoustic opera featuring Kathy Alberici, Taigen Kawabe, Markus Popp & Dylan Carlson, 2015 The central concept of Miscontinuum Album explores misconceptions of time and memory, inspired by unique acoustic phenomena derived through digital phasing and musical time stretching techniques. There is an aura of doom that pervades the work. Much of the album’s evocative nature […]
