GEORGES-EMMANUEL SCHNEIDER
COMPOSITIONS
This presentation brings together works that embody Georges-Emmanuel Schneider’s concept of the Augmented Violin: pieces conceived and composed or co-composed by him, rooted in his own translation of visual thinking into sound. Each work presents the violin as an instrument while expanding its technical possibilities beyond its traditional boundaries, drawing on a lifelong dialogue with many different musical worlds and synthesizing them into a distinct stylistic language.
UMA OBSCURA
In November 2026, Georges-Emmanuel Schneider will present two new compositions at Uma Obscura in Umeå, Sweden. The programme will feature a work for solo violin and electronics, as well as a second composition for the same instrumentation created as music for a dance choreography.
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Image: Georges-Emmanuel Schneider
TASCHENPLANET
A new composition created in collaboration with Ulm based poet and writer Marco Kerler. Based on one of Kerler’s poems, the work brings together his poetry and Georges-Emmanuel Schneider’s music, with Kerler himself performing the text within the piece. The result is a collaboration in which both artists contribute directly to the work’s musical and poetic dimensions. SOON TO BE RELEASED!
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VISION 67
For the Giacinto Scelsi Festival 2023, Georges created "Vision 67", a piece that refers to a central figure for the festival. Besides the eponymous composer Giacinto Scelsi, the writer Henri Michaux, who cultivated an artistic friendship with Scelsi, is also very present.
Image: Film still from Images d'un monde visionnaire (1963), Henri Michaux & Éric Duvivier. In connection with Vision 67 by Georges-Emmanuel Schneider.
MALAGASY BREATH
Malagasy Breath is a co-composition by Rajesh Mehta, Georges-Emmanuel Schneider and the other members of the Sky Cage Quartet. The work is built around recordings of the calling sounds of Indri lemurs from Madagascar, incorporating their voices into a musical dialogue with the quartet’s instruments.
The composition explores the relationship between human music and the rhythmic and sonic language of another species, bringing together acoustic instruments, electronics and the haunting calls of the endangered lemurs.
Image: Subcontinental Records
ERIK SATIE VEXATIONS -
UN THÉÂTRE ACOUSTIQUE
This project is a reworking of Erik Satie’s composition, created by Georges-Emmanuel Schneider and Esther Kretzinger as part of REER PROJECT. Rather than focusing on Satie’s later association with minimalism and ambient music, the work explores his connections to absurdism, satire, nightlife and Dadaism.
The composition transforms Satie’s repetitive musical material into a dense collage of avant-garde, jazz, techno and electroacoustic elements.
Image: Erik Satie
THE H DIARIES
The H Diaries is a musical work created as part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between Georges-Emmanuel Schneider, visual artist Marianne Hollenstein and actress Katharina Weithaler. Based on quotations by Hannah Arendt, the collaboration developed a fictional diary of Arendt as an interdisciplinary performance, with Georges’s composition serving as its musical soundtrack.
Image: Marianne Hollenstein
THE PRECIPICE
The Precipice is a composition created in 2019 in collaboration with visual artist Marianne Hollenstein for a performance in Kyiv, presented in the context of a fashion show by Ukrainian fashion label Finch. It was the first time both artists approached the work of Hannah Arendt together. Originally created as a musical response to Hollenstein’s performance, the piece also stands independently as a composition.
Image: Georges-Emmanuel Schneider
CHINA 2019
Aethernaeum is a Berlin based Folk Black Metal band known for its nature inspired approach to Black Metal. The band released three albums between 2012 and 2015: Die Rückkehr ins Goldene Zeitalter, Wanderungen durch den Daemmerwald and Naturmystik. Georges joined Aethernaeum as the band began working towards its comeback and a new musical direction.
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PARK AM SEE (MIT HÄUSERN)
REER Project is a Berlin based music duo founded by Esther Kretzinger and Georges-Emmanuel Schneider. The project explores the possibilities of combining voice, violin and computer, bringing together acoustic playing, electronic sound, samples, rhythms and analogue effects.
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ANALEPSIS GREY
Georges has collaborated with Berlin based sound artist and Max/MSP programmer Marco Accardi on projects exploring the interaction between live performance, electronic systems and algorithmic composition.
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FRANKENSTEIN
Georges was an early member of the Barış Experience Band, founded in 2014 by Ayhan Çoşkun as a tribute to legendary Turkish musician Barış Manço. The project goes beyond simply performing Manço’s music. Ayhan's vision is to carry the spirit of psychedelic rock and Anatolian rock into the present, creating an open musical collective centred on improvisation, jamming and collaboration.
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