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„AI assistance as basis for compositional structures“ , 2024
  (lecture Philipps University of Marburg)

"Formative sound concepts in analog and virtual spaces", 2024
  (lecture Anton Bruckner University Linz / Austria)

"Sonic Views - Urban Landscapes", 2023
 (lecture / workshop - Hogeschool Rotterdam /
 University of Applied Sciences - School of Communication, Media and Information Technology)

"The Phenomenology of Space as Sound Experience
", 2022
  (lecture - artist conference "Nice Spaces - Evil Spaces"
  Westphalian monastery landscape, Die Hegge, Willebadessen (Germany)

"Are We Still There Yet ?“,
2020  
  (general thoughts about the crisis of live music events
  and the resulting opportunities for contemporary music /
  notes about works produced 2015-2020)
  (lecture - EMUfest Sabina, Rieti (IT) - Chiesa Di San Martino, Poggio Moiano)

"Art Music / Applied Music - a contradiction ?“ (media composition as an interdisciplinary field), 2018
   (lecture - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)   

 "Audio Visual Perspectives", 2017 
   silent short movie - aspects of new sound dramaturgy and aesthetics
   (lecture - University of Rome „Tor Vergata“)

 "Composition of the present - medial concepts as individual reflection and sociologically
   anchored expression“
, 2017
   (lecture - Faculty for Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf)   

 "Don´t forget the old masters", 2016 
   sustained aesthetic influences on current music scene in Düsseldorf
   (lecture - University of Rome „Tor Vergata“)

 "Concrete Poetry in the mirror of compositional concepts" , 2015
   lecture - on the occasion on Eugen Gomringer symposium in Bayreuth
   (Kunstmuseum Bayreuth)

 "Begegnung 7" , 2010
   Manuscript for the ensemble work about Robert Schumann´s and Frédéric Chopin´s personal    encounters in the years 1835/36, texts from the diaries of Schumann, Chopin´s chronicles, Adam    Mickiewicz "Konrad Wallenrod" 
and the Chopin biography by Eva Gesine Baur

 "La naissance des iles" , 2008/09
   Manuscript for the music theatre project

 "La naissance des iles" , 2004/05
   Manuscript for the radio play about polynesian myths and legends - written in three languages:
   german, french and tahitian

 "Ein Schiff reist durch die See" , 2002
   Manuscript for the radio play, texts by Johann Christoph Gottsched and Andreas Gryphius

 "Unaufgeloester Luftstoss" , 2000/01
   Manuscript for the radio play, texts by  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boetius
   (I. Part from "The Five Books About The Music")

 

 "Algorithmische Kompositionsmodelle in Verbindung mit Film- und Kammermusik" - 1994
   Algorithmic composition models in film and chamber music. Short analysis of own works
   (lecture, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, in German)
 

 "Night Mail - Hintergruende und Geschichte des Dokumentarfilms von John Grierson sowie Analyse    der Filmmusik von Benjamin Britten" , 1991/92
   History of the documentary film "Night Mail" by John Grierson and analysis of the film music
   composed by Benjamin Britten (for the Robert Schumann Music Academy, in German)

 "Igor Strawinskys Liedschaffen - Untersuchungen zur Motivsprache im Verhältnis von
  Text und musikalischem Bild"
, 1991
   Analysis of Igor Stravinsky´s Songs (texts, motives, music) (for the Robert Schumann Music Academy,
   in German)

 "Worte, Schatten, Spiele" , 1990/91
   Comments on the work (text + music)
   (for the "Academy of Fine Arts" in  Duesseldorf, in German)