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colline sur livre (2022-)

Marianne Schuppe, voice, lute, e-ponts

Laconnex series (2022)

for instruments and voices
composition and voice: Marianne Schuppe
9 pieces unfolding a melody line.
Played with long rests in a time span of 7 hours from dusk to late night.
Opaque transparent.
Laconnex series auf bandcamp

behind I-IV (2018/2020)

for voice and two instruments
text: Marianne Schuppe
a ransong to be sung in trio or performed with solo voice and instruments

distant shapes – ferne Formen (2019)

for listeners and singers

nosongs (2017/18)

for voice, lute and uber-bows
text: Marianne Schuppe
came in here from side-doors
found in a landscape of some other game

notes from the hill (2015/2019)

for voice and one instrument
an ongoing songbook of short melodies performed solo with any instrument or in duo

Sapphosongs (2015)

for voice and one instrument
referring to a small selection of words by Sappho, commissioned by Ute Stoecklin/ maison 44
das Licht zurückwerfen

slow songs (2013-15)

for voice, lute, e-bows
text: Marianne Schuppe
nor silent, kind or real are things in thinking

am Fenster (2014)

for solo voice
where is the stage in a high-ceiled dark concrete-room ?

tidstrand (2009)

for voice and instruments
text: abgelauschte Sätze
written for the concert series moments musicaux in Aarau, named after a swedish woolen blanket

Avers (2008)

for voice, lute, e-bows
longsong in seven parts based on the transkription of a witch trial in the Swiss mountainvalley of Avers in the 17th century,
commissioned by Ina Boesch und Corinne Holtz for the opening of their performance series "Die Bühne im Avers".
346 Jahre später schickt mir jemand eine Postkarte

Hitzewelle (2004)

music for videowork by Andrea Wolfensberger
Multi-layered-tape-composition based on a conductus of Codex las Huelgas (13th century).
a many-voiced canon towards dissolution into wind

stilleben (1997)

fourteen almost wordless still-lifes for voice

das imzu plaudern (1993)

for voice and tape
text: Marianne Schuppe
Simultaneity of speaking and singing comes about by accident

solo for voice (1988)

Kunsthaus Aarau

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