David Moss has worked with
the following Composers, Conductors, Directors,
Orchestras, Musicians, Choregraphers, Radio, Projects/Events,
Concerts and Workshops.
 Composers:
Olga Neuwirth
Andrea Molino
Daniele Lombardi
Heiner Goebbels
Luciano Berio
Fred Frith
Uri Caine
Carla Bley
John Zorn
Malcolm Goldstein
Nicola Sani
Joseph Celli
Klaus König
Bill Dixon
Carl Stone
Sergei Kuryokhin
Roberto Paci Dalo
John King
Jolyon Brettingham-Smith
Roland Mell
Kevin Coyne
Sam Auinger
Arto Lindsay
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Sir Simon Rattle
Sylvain Cambreling
Peter Rundel
Johannes Kalitzke
Marc Minkowski
Peter Eotvos
Steven Sloane
Andrea Molino
Frank Ollu
Jonathan Stockhammer
Roland Mell
Jorg Henneberger
Golo Berg
B. Tommy Andersson
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Orchestras/Ensembles
Berlin Philharmonic
Ensemble Modern
Klangforum Wien
Asko Ensemble
Asko Choir
Arditti Quartet
Mozarteum Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra
Phoenix Ensemble
BBC Radio Orchestra, Edinburgh
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Ensemble Music Fabrik NRW
Ensemble Intercontemporain. Paris
Alter Ego Ensemble
Orchestra della Toscana
Hofer Symphoniker
Bochum Symphoniker
Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Musik Fabrik NRW
Berlin Kammer Orchester
Carla Bley Ensemble
Uri Caine Ensemble
Karlsruhe Symphoniker
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra
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Heiner Goebbels
Hans Neuenfels
Joachim Schloemer
Klaus Guth
Jean Lambert-Wild
Roberto Paci-Dalo
Mathilde Monnier
Ernst Stoetzner
Jean Lambert-Wild
Birgitta Trommler
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Musicians/Performers, 1973-2004; partial list:
Stefan Kurt -Salvo Cuccia -Stephan
Schmidt -Olaf Baer
Dale Duesing -Christoph Homberger
-Matthias Klink
Hildegard Behrens- Monica Bacelli -Frode Olsen -Salome
Kammer
Hans Lang- Jean-Luc Therminarius -Jean Lambert-Wild
-Gayle Tufts
Georg Nigl- Andrew Watts -Huutajut "The Shouting
Men" - Kryzstof Knittel
Fred Frith -George Lewis -Arto Lindsay
-Bill Laswell -Heiner Goebbels
David van Tieghem -Christian Marclay
-Tom Guralnick -Carles Santos
Henning Christiansen -Hans Peter
Kuhn -Sergei Kuryokhin -Fast Forward
Malcolm Goldstein -Z'ev Peter Hollinger -Roberto
Paci Dalo-Phil Minton
Frank Schulte -John King -Catherine Jauniaux Ben
Patterson -Wayne Horvitz
Joan LaBarbara -Anthony Coleman -Elliot Sharp -Derek
Bailey
Carla Bley -Steve Swallow -Linda
Sharrock -John Oswald
Ursula Oppens -Richard Teitelbaum
-Carles Zingaro -Eugene Chadbourne
John Zorn -Shelley Hirsch -Jamaaladeen
Tacuma -Jarmo Sermila
Montera -Gordon Monahan- Walter
Norris -Evan Parker -Louis Moholo
Paul Dutton -Trevor Wishart -Lindsay
Cooper -Keiji Haino
LaDonna Smith -Davey Williams -George
Cartwright -Yoshihide Otomo
Puntilla -Stefano Scodanibbio -John
Giorno -Jeanne Lee
Michael Lytle -Ellen Christi -Radu
Malfatti -Jerry Granelli
Melvyn Poore -Yves Robert -Harri
Sjostrom -Gunter Hampel
Chris Cutler -Ferdinand Richard
-Dimitri Prigov -Johannes Bauer
Vanessa Mackness -David Toop -Bruno
Spoerri -Conrad Bauer
Steve Feld -David Behrman -John
Driscoll -Sainkho Namtchylak
Yuval Gabay -Ben Neill -Ned Rothenberg
-Sussan Deihhim
David Soldier -Michelle Kinney -Bobby
Previte -David Garland
Tony Buck -Michel Godard -Yildiz
Ibrahimova -Jaap Blonk
Natalia Pschenitchnikowa -Robert
Rutman -Wolfgang Dauner
Gottfried Raes -Moniek Darge -Hans
Reichel -Anna Homler
Peter Rose -Seth Josel -Dietmar
Diesner -Fatima Miranda
Rinde Eckert -Steve Feld -Maggie
Nichols -Bassam Abdul-Salaam
Fred van Hove -Joe Sachse -Paul
Brody -Salvatore Macchia
Bruce Ackley -Larry Ochs -Andrew
Voight -Syd Straw
Ray Anderson -Tenko Ueno -Joshua
Fried -Wolfgang Puschnig
Louis Sclavis -Jim Denley -Amanda
Stewart -Paul Haines
Han Bennink -Peter Blegvad -Peter
Cusack -Mark Kramer
Andrea Centazzo -Julien Blaine -Peter
Kowald -Polly Bradfield
Dagmar Krause -Gillian McGregor
-Torsten Müller -Leslie Delaba
Bert Schierbeek -Michael Vatcher
-Henry Gwiazda -Paul Burwell
Peter Schierer -Dorothea Schürch
-Bruno Meillier -Catherina de Re
Ross Bolleter -David Weinstein -Guy
Klucevsek -Jon Rose
Jin-Hi Kim -Emily Hay -Lew Soloff
-Chris Mann
Rik Rue -Butch Morris -Bill Frisell
-Irene Schweizer
Annie Gosfield -Werner Durand -Ali
Askin -Vladimir Tarasov
Ikue MoriVenostaSandell -Robert Dick -Henry Kaiser
-Bob Ostertag
Peter Machajdik -Martin Schutz -Andreas
Bosshard -Michael Rodach
Didi Bruckmayr -Hans Koch -Stephan
Wittwer -Bertl Mutter
FM Einheit -Tristan Honsinger -Ernst
Reysiger -Nic Collins
David Mott -Roger Kleier -N.U. Unruh
-Yamatsuke Eye
DJ Olive -Jean Chaine -Stefan Kurt
-Kevin Coyne
Don Byron -Soldier String Quartet -Amelia Cuni -Martyn
Jacques
Thomas Buckner -Uri Caine -Tom Cora -Giovanni -Anton
Fier -Sten
Greetje Bijma-Pauline Oliveros-Emil Viclicky -Jean-Marc
-Koichi Makigami
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Choreographers/dancers (for
whom David Moss has performed/composed music/scores):
Steve Paxton -Lisa Nelson
Pooh Kaye -Kenneth King
Lisa Kraus -Mathilde Monnier
Salome Schneebeli -Sascha Waltz
Kei Takei -Sally Silvers
Leader/Artistic director,
of the following institutes/ensembles/projects:
The Institute for Living Voice (Antwerp)
Moss Tales
The Vocal Village Project
"Pierrot LunaiRE: Remix 2005/06"
Music By, For, and Against John
Cage
Dense Band
Operetta
Survival Songs
Direct Sound
Sampler City
My Favorite Things Project
Einstein for Aliens: A One-man Theater
Performance
Physical Acts
No Tech Festival
Max Factor (w. Fast Forward)
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Radio Projects (selected 1983-1998):
U.S.A.(for National Public Radio):
Soundspots
Soundspots #2
Vox Box
Sound Sculptors
U.S. Ear: The New Music Review for
Radio
Australia:
Soundspots #3 (for ABC's "The Listening
Room")
Holland :
Soundspots #4 (for KRO)
Switzerland:
"Voice Paths" (DRS)
"Moss and Sleeping Beauty" (SR)
Germany:
"Moss Tales" (SFB)
"Einstein For Aliens" (SFB)
"Adagio Moss" (SFB)
"Music By, For, and Against John Cage"
(HR)
"Pressure Points" (SR)
"Risks: a 5 part Series" (SDR)
"Kafka Hieroglyphics"(SWR)
"Dreamsongs" (SWR)
"Songs You've Never Heard in Your Life"
(WDR)
Finland:
"Prometheus" by Heiner Goebbels
(Finnish Radio)
France:
Radio-Graphiques (Radio Grenouille &
Radio Galère, Marseille)
Canada:
"Letters from Berlin" (CBC, Toronto)
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Large Projects/Events (selected):
Pierrot LunaiRE 2005 : A RE-mix
of Schoenberg by Ensemble
Alter Ego and David Moss
"ImPROV(E)ising the Future",
Adelaide Festival, Australia, 2000
Invited to create a multi-evening performance event
focusing on
improvisational music, and to choose all performers
"Einstein For Aliens: A Theater Piece",
Berlin, 1999-2003
Directed and performed in a one-man theater show based
on the fictional
experiences of an improvising musician; 20 European
performances in 2000-03
"No Tech: the Art of Performance", Podewil,
Berlin 1998
creator/artistic director of a 1-week performance
festival ; 6 artists from 5
disciplines working with no high technology; 5 workshops,90
subscribers;
4 concerts; seminar
"Physical Acts: Performance and Sport",
Berlin, Köln, Bonn
Gent. Wels, Adelaide (Australia); 1992-2000:
creator and artistic director of a large performance
project which brings
world-class athletes and highly physical performers/improvisers
together;
presented at major festivals in 4 countries
"Einstein For Aliens: A Radio Play", SFB
radio, Berlin, 1998
created a 1 hour radio play (German & English
versions); composed,
performed music, directed, narrated English version
"Graphisme et Musique", Cite de la Musique,
Marseille, 1996
appointed artistic director by the city's cultural
dept. to create joint projects for
6 new music organizations; organized 6 city-wide events
combining new music
with fireworks, kites, architecture, school-children,
radio, weekly newspapers.
Risk Radio Series, SDR (Stuttgart Radio),1996
Commissioned to create, compose music for, a 5-part
radio series on the concept
of risk in daily cultural life; a reaction to the
Die Zeit article (see "Leben Sie
Riskant", below)
"Survival Songs", Leipzig Opera/Berliner
Ensemble, 1996
Full evening opera commissioned by the Leipzig Opera,
the Leipzig Jazz Festival,
and the Dresden New Music Forum; created (w. Bert
Noglik), directed, composed
music for 5 singers, 2 turntable players, 2 instrumentalists,
Renaissance choir; performed in 3 festivals
"Post-Webern", Ensemble NRW, Dusseldorf
1995
Commissioned by the Musik Fabrik NRW to create a new
piece for them using
improvisation; conducted improvisation workshops w.
the ensemble, directed
them, performed 3 times and recorded for German radio
"Wild Wires/Tactile Tales", Hebbel Theater,
Berlin 1994
With Hans Peter Kuhn, created, co-composed music for,
co-directed and
performed in a full evening theater piece; text from
Italo Calvino
"Moss Tales", SFB radio, Berlin, 1995
commissioned to create a radio play based on my experiences
as a touring
musician; told stories (in mixed German/English),
snag, played percussion
simultaneously; most broadcasts in Germany of any
radio play made that year;
awarded several honors.
"Provokalia: A Festival of Voices", part
of "X-94" Fest,
Berlin, 1994
creator and artistic director of a 1-week long voice
festival with 12 singers; 6 workshops with 100 subscribers;
and 4 nights of concerts
"Leben Sie Riskant", a manifesto on risk,
for Die Zeit
newspaper, 1993/4
commissioned by the most respected German weekly national
newspaper to write
a full page culture article
"Touch: International Percussion", Podewil,
Berlin 1993
creator and artistic director of a 1-week long percussion
festival with
7 percussionists; 6 workshops with 105 subscribers;
4 concerts
"Gesangsgänger" (Voice Paths), Berlin/Zurich,
1992/93
Created/wrote a 13-part voice workshop for the print
medium (combined with
radio broadcasts of sound examples sung by Moss &
Dorothea Schürch);
published in TIP, Berlin'sweekly magazine, and WOZ,
Zürich
"Direct Sound: 5 Voices", Europe tour 1989,
Canadian tour 1990
Founder/leader of acappella vocal ensemble specializing
in improvisation;
includes Carles Santos, Shelley Hirsch, Greetje Bijma,
David Moss, Anna Homler,
Catherine Jauniaux, Michelle George
"My Favorite Things Project", Berlin Jazz
Fest & European tour, 1991
organized "super-group" with Heiner Goebbels,
Peter Hollinger, John King, and
Jean Chaine; composed/arranged homages to favorite
music/composers
"U.S. Ear: The New Music Review for Radio",
National Public
(NPR) US, 1987-89
conceived of, produced/directed, distributed 78 editions
of a weekly 1/2-hour
radio magazine program on contemporary music in the
US; commissioned original music from over 20 composers;
interviews with composers/musicians from around the
world; correspondents from Eastern Europe; broadcast
by over 50 NPR stations across the USA
"Soundspots" #1 & #2: National Public
Radio, US, 1984/85
conceived of, produced/directed. distributed 75 editions
of a 3-minute program
to over 100 NPR stations around the US; commissioned
35 American composers
to create new 2-minute audio pieces; featured music
never before broadcast on
popular radio (for example, compositions by George
Lewis, Robert Ashley,
Joseph Celli, Malcolm Goldstein, Wendy Chambers);
Soundspot programs were
later broadcast by Australian (ABC), Dutch (KRO),
and German (WDR) radio.
Improvised Project, Moers Festival , Germany, 1984
selected and led a group of 8 improvising musicians
for a 3-day
improvising event at innovative festival for audiences
of 4000
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Workshops, led by Moss:
1999:
Florenze/Montevarchi: 4 day voice workshop
for Jubilee Joint
Paris,IRCAM: Lecture/demonstration on voice and
electronics
Firenze: Tempo Reale; seminar on Voice and electronics
1998:
Teatro Juvarro, Turin, Italy
No Tech Festival, at Podewil, Berlin,
Germany
Schauspielhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Stimmen (Voices) '98 Festival, Lörrach,
Germany
Teatra Natura Festival, Parma, Italy
1997:
WDR & Triennale Festival,Cologne,
Germany: for choir of "Voix"
project
Amsterdam, Holland: organized by
students of Lucerne Workshop (1996) for
advanced work
Zürich, Switzerland: for "Seven
Senses" Festival, Dance Fabrik
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Experimenta
Festival
1996:
Mathilde Monnier Dance Co.; Montpelier,
France
Ibero-American Theater Festival,
Bogota, Colombia (Spring)
Improvisation Festival, Music Academy,
Lucerne, Switzerland
Theater School of Bogota, Bogota,
Colombia (Winter)
1995:
LINK, alternative university, Bologna,
Italy
Ensemble NRW (Musik fabrik), Dusseldorf, Germany
1994:
School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam,
Holland
Provokalia Festival, Podewil, Berlin
Spring New Music Seminar, Darmstadt, Germany
Pre-1994 (selected):
Viitasaari "Time of Music" Festival,
Finland
Yale University, New Haven
Trinity College, Hartford
ASKO Choir, Amsterdam, Holland
De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Holland
Bennington College, Vermont
Washington University, St. Louis
Columbia University, Chicago
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer Jazz Clinic
Goddard College, Vermont
Hampshire College, Massachusetts
School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam
Events/Concerts
1994-1998 (selected):
1998:
European Tour w. Carla Bley's "Escalator
Over the Hill" Project
Artistic Director of "No Tech" Festival,
Podewil, Berlin
Composed music for Schipenko's "Zyrikon",
Schauspielhaus, Zürich
Wrote, composed "Einstein For Aliens",
a Hörspiel for SFB Radio, Berlin
Tour of "Prometheus", a theater piece
by Heiner Goebbels
Recording of "Surrogate Cities" for
ECM label
Release of "Time Stories", Duos CD on
Intakt label
Solo performer in "Adagio Moss", by
Nicola Sani for SFB radio
Theater Scandicci, Florence, Italy
Virus Festival, Halle, Germany
Theater am Marienbad, Freiburg,
Germany
Teatra Natura Festival, Parma,
Italy
SFB Prix Europa Radio Gala, Berlin,
Germany
Jazz Autumn Festival, Konstanz,
Germany
IUC Concert Series, Rome, Italy
Audio Art Festival, Krakow, Poland
Radio Productions for:
SWR, Stuttgart, Germany: "Kafka Hieroglyphics"
and "Dreamsongs
SFB, Berlin, Germany: "Einstein For Aliens"
conceived, performed, wrote text &
composed music for, a one-hour radio play
SR (Radio Swiss Romande) Geneva, Switzerland:
Composed and performed in a 30:00 minute Audio
Art piece
7 performances in Heiner Goebbels'
theater piece, "Prometheus",
in: Mulhouse and Paris, France; Darmstadt, Germany
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Workshops:
Moss led workshops
in performance, improvisation, and voice at:
Teatro Juvarro, Turin, Italy
No Tech Festival, at Podewil, Berlin,
Germany
Schauspielhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Stimmen (Voices) '98 Festival, Lörrach,
Germany
Teatra Natura Festival, Parma, Italy
1997:
Performed in the world premiere of Carla
Bley's
"Escalator Over The Hill, for the Cologne
Triennale
Benefit performance for Sergei Kuryokhin at the
Knitting Factory, NYC
Invited to Toga Theater Festival, Toga Japan
Participated in Experimenta Festival, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Soloist in Heiner Goebbels' orchestra work, "Surrogate
Cities",
performed by the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence
and Rome festivals
Led David Moss Project (improvised music with
Phil Minton, Koichi
Makigami, Catherine Jauniaux, Frank Schulte) in
"Fabrik Jazz"
series, Zürich,
Benefit performance for the Wochenzeitung (Weekly
Paper), Zürich,
Soloist in "Voix", composed by Frank
Schulte for the Cologne Triennale
Solo Concerts at:
Schloss Salzenau, Germany
Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany
Istanbul Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Toga Festival, Toga, Japan
Experimenta Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hofkonzert Festival, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Transmitter Festival, Bregenz, Austria
Academy of Visual Arts, Hamburg, Germany
Stadttheater Darmstadt ("Serious Fun Festival"),
Darmstadt, Germany
German-American Institute, Heidelburg, Germany
SFB, Berlin Germany (2)
"Operetta" project,with
turntable-player Frank Schulte, as part of the World
Percussion Festivals: Hamburg and Ulm, Germany
Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain: with Phil Minton
6 performances in Heiner Goebbels' theater piece,
"Prometheus": Nurnberg & Frankfurt,
Germany; Innsbruck, Austria; Porto, Portugal; Palermo,
Italy
Kunsthaus, Zürich, soloist in Christian Marclay's
ensemble event
Cologne, Germany: for choir of "Voix"
project
Amsterdam, Holland: private workshop for interested
performers
Zürich, Switzerland: for "Seven Senses"
Festival, Dance Fabrik
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Experimenta Festival
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