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(Bocian CD, 2022) Sawt Out in it’s “plugged” version, with guest Tony Elieh. electro acoustics and acoustic electronics
solo exhibition: bulb fiction, with many works around the lightbulb in the Zeughaus of the Zitadelle Spandau.
Zitadelle, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin Zitadelle Spandau Berlin
Kontakt, a light installation by Michael Vorfeld, Liebig 12, Berlin click for invitation (PDF)
SAWT OUT with Burkhard Beins (percussion), Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet) and Michael Vorfeld (percussion), Herbal Records, 2019 
IMPROVISORS with Ute Wasserman (voice & bird whistles), Jaap Blonk (voice & electronics) and Michael Vorfeld (percussion, string instrument, light bulbs & electronic devices), Kontrans, 2019MUT concert tour
for supporting the concerts of MUT on February 10, 11 & 12, we like to thank the Musikfonds e.V. mit Projektmitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
THREE_O, LENTZ / VORFELD / HAMMERSCHMIDT, NURNICHTNUR, 2018
Trio-CD with compositions and improvisations by Ulrike Lentz – flutes, Michael Vorfeld – percussion and Reinhart Hammerschmidt – double bass
Portfolio of Light Bulb photograms at Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna.on youtube
now on vimeo the project COUNTERPOLE with the ENSEMBLE X & E-MEX Ensemble, improvisation and New Music performed simultaneously at the Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, May 9, 2018
Michael Vorfeld + Hans Tammen | Dark Circuits Festival 2017
eContast! 19.2 – Light+Sound now online!
cec.sonus.ca/econtact/19_2
Sound artists have always maintained a strong relation with the visual. This issue of eContact! is more specifically interested in the creative use of sound and light. Historical and analytical reflections are complemented by contributions that bring “to light” different artistic perspectives and practices.
IMAGINÄRE MUSIK on VIMEO
Music for selfmade and prepared instruments. Music by Andrea Neumann (inside piano), Silvia Ocougne (prepared guitars), Stephan Froleyks (selfmade instruments), Michael Vorfeld (self made instruments), Werner Durand (selfmade wind instruments) . Concert at Acker Stradt Palast, Berlin June 2017; a project by Silvia Ocougne sponsored by the Initiative Neue Musik - Berlin. Video by Steffi Weismann.
Rundfunk Aeterna
von Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Eine Radiooper mit einem Ensemble aus Experten für erweiterte Instrumental-Techniken, Apparaten und Technikern, menschlichen und digitalen Sprechern (sightspecific light and sound installation) Lichtpromenade
HANOI ° BERLIN, Experimental Music Meeting, info download PDF
just out:
NASHAZ
Neumann/Sehnaoui/Thieke/Vorfeld
Michael Thieke: clarinet
Sharif Sehnaoui: acoustic guitar
Andrea Neumann: inside piano, mixing desk,
Michael Vorfeld: percussion, Al Maslakh 2016
just out:
VORFELD SCOTT GRATKOWSKI
SIEBEN ENTRÜCKTE LIEDER
CD, Creative Sources Recordings, 2015
Michael Vorfeld – percussion, Richard Scott – Modular Synthesizer,
Frank Gratkowski – Bass and Contrabass Clarinet, bb Clarinet, Alto Saxophone.
With the CD SIEBEN ENTRÜCKTE LIEDER (Seven Enraptured Songs) this Berlin trio presents a multifaceted collection of improvised music pieces recorded during two days in February 2015.
just out: MICHAEL VORFELD
TOPOLOGIES 01
CD compilation, Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, Australia
This compilation includes the new composition UNTER STROM for light bulbs and actuating devices by Michael Vorfeld.
Other pieces on this compilation are made by Philip Samartzis, Byron Huang-Dean, Christophe Charles, Rosalind Hall and Geoff Robinson.
just out: GLÜCK, MIKROTON CD 38, contemporary percussion music with: Burkhard Beins / Enrico Malatesta / Michael Vorfeld / Christian Wolfarth / Ingar Zach
SKIN Vorfeld plays Bongos
New Solo-CD just out
Funkloch Project, November 2014
Chladni Project, june 2013
voiceXtensions - Trailer - Ute Wassermann/Michael Vorfeld, Berlin 2013 9:30 min on vimeo
July 2012, just released Echtzeitmusik Berlin, three CD compilation. 41 previously unreleased tracks - 230 minutes on 3 CDs compiled by Burkhard Beins mikroton recordings
April 13 - June 8, DB12 (Dallas Biennial) presenting LEUCHTSTOFF (16mm movie, 2003, Germany, b&w, 13 min.) & LIGHT BULB MUSIC, Dallas, Texas
sound example of
Glühlampenmusik
Light Bulb Music on vimeo
live concert at Wabe, Berlin June2011
Video Light Bulb Music, July 2011
Michael Voreld: Von Klängen und anderen Wellen / On Sound and Other Waves in: echtzeitmusik berlin selbstbestimmung einer szene / self-defining a scene Burkhard Beins, Christian Kesten, Gisela Nauck, Andrea Neumann (Hg./eds.) Wolke Verlag 2011
Michael Vorfeld: Freie Improvisation versus Freie Kunst, in: Aspekte der Freien Improvisation in der Musik, Dieter A. Nanz (Hg.) Wolke Verlag, 2011
Michael Vorfeld
Glühlampenmusik / Light Bulb Music
A book with photos, text and Audio-CD
Revolver Publishing
revolver-books.com
This book includes photographs, photo-graphics and photograms of and with incandescent lamps, an extensive research into the history of the light bulb and its impact on various aspects of our modern lifestyle and an Audio-CD with sounds generated by means of various incandescent lamps and electrical switching elements.
Berlin 2010, Revolver Publishing, 40 pages, ill., 23,8 x 30 cm, Hardcover + AUDIO-CD on PVC CD-holder, German/English ISBN 978-3-86895-092-2
Michael Vorfeld Flugangst, solo CD
published by MonotypeRec., 2010
monotyperecords.com
With his most recent solo CD, Michael Vorfeld presents an extreme and unique world of percussive sounds. His set-up consists of various percussion instruments and self-designed string instruments. His uncommon playing methods and further instrumental preparations complete the sound, leading to a multi-layered and dense sonic world.
Ben Gwilliam and Michael Vorfeld, LAUSTE, CD
published by Entr’acte, 2010
entracte.co.uk
Lauste is composed entirely from a series of improvisations that
took place at Michael Vorfeld’s Berlin studio in late 2008.
These sessions and recordings presented herein were born out of a shared interest in combining light bulb and magnetic sounds into some musical form.