music for silent films
Stummfilmmusik
I compose and improvise live the soundtrack for silent films,
on piano /extended piano, other instruments or sound objects,
and with the Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra as well.
Repertoire
Classics of the silent era:
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) Rober Wiene
Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (1922) W.Murnau Der Golem (1920) P.Wegener
Der Müde Tod (1921) Fritz Lang
Salomé (1923) Charles Bryant
Faust (1926) F.W. Murnau
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) C. T. Dreyer
Pandora's Box (1929) G.W.Papst
La Aldea Maldita (1930) F. Rey
Freaks (1932) T. Browning
Avant-garde, experimental and surrealist cinema:
Rhythmus 21 (1921) H. Richter
Berlin, Sinfonie Einer Großstadt (1927) W. Ruttman
Le Retour À La Raison (1923) M. Ray
L'Étoile De Mer (1928) M. Ray
H2O (1929) R. Steiner
La Coquille Et Le Crergyman (1926) G. Dulac
Symphonie Diagonal (1924) V. Eggeling
Anemic cinema (1926) M. Duchamp
Polizeibericht Überfall (1928)
The Life And Death Of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (1928)
Regen (1929)
Un Chien Andalou (1929) L. Bunuel, S. Dalí
Even: As You and I (1937)
Flaming Creatures (1963) J. Smith
Yukoku or The Rite Of Love And Death. Y. Mishima (1966)
Un Chant d´Amour. J. Genet + J. Cocteau (1950)
Vision Of Ecstasy. N. Wingrave (1989)
The Call Of Cthulhu. A Leman (2005)
Cowards Bend The knee. G. Maddin (2003)
Maya Deren:
Meshes Of the Afternoon (1943)
Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946)
A Study In Choreography For Camera (1945)
At Land (1944)
Meditation On Violence (1948)
The Very Eye of Night (1959; gedreht 1952–1955)
Charlie Chaplin:
The Floorwalker (1916)
One A.M. (1916)
The Pawnshop (1916)
Buster Keaton:
The General (1927)
The Baloonatic (1923)
Spite Marriage (1929)
Voyage Dans La Lune (1902)
Journey Through The Impossible (1904)
A Moonlight Serenade (1904)
Extraordinary Illusions (1901)
Desabillage Impossible (1909)
Eclipse De Soleil En Pleine Lune (1907)
Baron Munschausen´s Dream (1911)
A La Conquête du Pôle (1912)
Ki Ri Ki, Acrobatiques Japonais (1907)
Les Lunatiques (1908)
Une Excursion Incohérente (1909)
Création De La Serpentine (1908)
Jan Svankmajer:
Conspirators Of Pleasure (1996)
Food (1992)
Down To The Cellar (1983)
Darkness/Light/Darkness (1982)
Dimensions Of Dialogue (1982)
Norman Mc Laren:
Neighbours (1952)
A Charry Tale (1957)
Boogie-Doodle (1948)
Lines: Horizontal (1962)
Lines: Vertical (1960
Serenal (1959))
Mosaic (1965)
Spheres (1969)
La Poulette Grise (1947)
c´Est l´Aviron (1944)