pieces
Air Conditioning Piece, site-specific sound installation, 2025. Gallery Beauty Salon, Los Angeles.
Parmenides explorations, for two performers and video projection, 2025. Automata, Los Angeles.
sich hinter dem Lied verstecken, installation, 2022. Gallery Zwitschermaschine, Berlin.
Chromatisch (8 Oktaven über 1/8 Hz), digital audio (silent), 2018. Released on Segmod, CD Dumpf Edition #12, Zürich 2019
2.33, 9-channel live-electronics, solo or duo, 2015. Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
101 W 18th St. (Sound Observation #8), sound installation, five-channel digital audio, 2011/12. Group exhibition “Membra Disjecta for John Cage – Wanting to Say Something About John,” Freiraum Quartier21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna 2012
Sound Observation #1b (Chinatown), live diffusion of four-channel digital audio, 2011. Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne
EQ Music, live diffusion of eight-channel digital audio, 2011. The Wulf, Los Angeles
Berlin aufräumen (Tidying up Berlin). Sound Observation #7, two-channel digital audio, 2011. Diapason Gallery for Sound, Brooklyn, NY
“Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments.” Emerson attributes, for speaker and two-channel digital audio, 2010. The Wulf, Los Angeles
Two Trash Can Recordings (He didn’t like collage). Sound Observation #6, live diffusion of four-channel digital audio, 2010. Experimental Intermedia, New York
Centre and Grand. Sound Observation #5, live diffusion of four-channel digital audio, 2010. Experimental Intermedia, New York
“Wir suchen überall das Unbestimmte und finden immer nur Dinge.” Novalis-Bestimmungen, performance for speaker and projection, 2010. Aachener Performance Night, Theater Aachen
Hegenbart/Straebel: 09-11-1938, sound installation in commemoration of “Kristallnacht”, 2008. Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin. In collaboration with Boris Hegenbart, catalog
Zug, 1960 #7 nach La Monte Young. Sound Observation #4, sound installation, four-channel digital audio, 2008. Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Koch/Straebel: Tesla Transmissions, 16-channel sound installation and performance, 2007. Tesla, Berlin. In collaboration with hans w. koch.
Dynamikorientierte Klangbeobachtung, live electronics, 2006. Brückenmusik, Cologne
Text pieces for MEX: A sound itself (2003); contributions to zu früh 2004, zine.mex (2005), and zu früh 2006. MEX – Gesellschaft zur Förderung intermedialer und experimenteller Musikprojekte e.V., Künstlerhaus Dortmund
9 mal 3 von 9 (nine chairs), string trio, 2004. Commissioned by the Tom Johnson Festival, Dortmund. Members of the string quartet Quadrupel.
Vier Minuten von Tn und TN%, two-channel digital audio, 2003. Commissioned by Radio Berlin Brandenburg
Text statt Bilder, installation for slide projector, 2002. Atelier- und Ausstellungshaus Fresno, Münster
Guben, 1625, four-channel digital audio, 2001, Mex im Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Mikado, solo performance with four-channel amplification, 1995. Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin
realizations
John Cage: Song Books with Concert for Piano and Orchestra, opening production of MaerzMusik 2012, Berlin. Joan La Barbara, artistic direction; Ne(x)tworks; Die Maulwerker; Volker Straebel, scenic dramaturgy; Martin Supper, sound direction; Harald Frings, light design
John Cage: Aachen Musicircus on Europeras with Europera 4 and Fontana Mix, composed realization by Volker Straebel, directed by Ludger Engels. Commissioned by Theater Aachen, 2006
si·mul·ta·ne·ous si·lence. Simultanietät und Stille im Werk von John Cage um 1952. 12-hour event on simutaniety and silence in the work of John Cage, MaerzMusik 2002, Berlin
John Cage: Urban Circus on Berlin Alexanderplatz, realization of Circus on based onBerlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin for speaker and 48-channel tape, 2001. Commissioned by Ultraschall Festival, Sender Freies Berlin, Berlin. Premiered by Hanns Zischler
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis, version for three saxophones and live-electronics. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2000. Ulrich Krieger, Tobias Rüger, and Reimar Volker, saxophones; Volker Straebel, live-electronics.
Schwarz/Straebel: Tintenfraß Bach, conceptual score for cello solo, 2000. Martin Seemann, Rothenburg o.Tb. Collaboration with Linda Schwarz.
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis with Cartridge Music, version for string quartet and live-electronics. Leipzig, 1998. Kairos-Quartett and Andre Bartezki
John Cage: Fontana Mix, version for four-channel tape with bird sounds. Commissioned by festival Pfeifen im Walde. Podewil Berlin, 1994.