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  • Little things grow (2018) 10′

    Orchestration: fl/cl/vn.vc/perc/pno/electronics

    樂 絲 Silk, 木 Wood. (2015) 9′
    Orchestration: fl/bcl/vn.va.vc.db./pf

  • A Golden Child (2024) 5’
    Orchestration: cello, harp

    Alterity (2010) 20′
    
Orchestration: flute(piccolo, alto & flute), toy piano, piano & Electronics
    Text: a reflection on Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, De l’évasion, 1935
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    A fragmented hyacinth stain (2010) 13′
    
Orchestration: Soprano recorder, Quartz bowls 

    Alternate orchestration: Soprano Saxophone, Quartz bowls 

    Alternate orchestration : soprano recorder & Electronics (4-Channel Max/Msp Ambisonic Patch)

    Ashes. Gold (2014) 6′
    
Orchestration: Flute, Clarinet & Accordion

    Attractive privacies of breathing borders, still. (2020) 11′

    Orchestration: fl/sax/vn.db./vibraphone

    Awaken Thy Dragon(2024) 20’
    Orchestration: Bass clarinet & Electronics

    Das Schallstück (2004) 3′
    
Orchestration: Bassoon Duo (pedagogical work)
Publisher: Auf die Plätze, Fagott, los! Band 2 (Doblinger, 2004)

    Delicate Waters (2023) 5’
    Orchestration: vn.vn./sax/pf

    Everything dances, but the dance itself does not stop (2019) 20’
    Orchestration: recorder (sop), fl, db, organ, Electronics(sruti box)
    Theatre Performance: Baslertotentanz

    Into the waterfall (2020) 20′

    Orchestration: Recorder (Great Bass Paetzold, Soprano), Cello, Electronics (Max/Msp)
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Instant Memory Trace I or learning to breathe (2011) 10’
    
Orchestration: Baroque Flute, Harpsichord, (Ping pong balls), Electronics

    Mother Beauty, an Indian Tale (2021) 10′
    
Orchestration: sprechstimme speaker, Guitar (pedagogical work)
Text: Tamara Friebel, German/English

    Nausea (2009) 20′
    
Orchestration: viola d’amore, toy piano, piano & electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel
Text: a reflection on Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, De l’évasion, 1935

    Ostinato (2004) 5′
    
Orchestration: Bassoon (pedagogical work)
Publisher: Auf die Plätze, Fagott, los! Band 1 (Doblinger, 2004)

    Schallstück am Ende Verrückt (2004) 8′
    
Orchestration: Bassoon duo (pedagogical work)

    suisse pavillon blasquintett (2003) 7′

    Orchestration: fl/ob/cl/hn/ba (wind quintet)

    The agility of perspective nearness in a lake of being (2020) 10′
    
Orchestration: Violin, Guitar

    The Penguin March (1990)
    Orchestration: Flute, Piano (pedagogical work)

    Twilights, Dancing around us (2015) 11′

    Orchestration: Baroque Flute, Harpsichord
    Alternate Orchestration: flute, piano

    Wind up your Desire (2014) 10′

    Orchestration: cl/vn.vc.db. & gramophone (pressed record)
    
Alternate Orchestration: cl/vn.vc.db. electronics

  • Defragmented hyacinth stain (2010) 13′
    
Orchestration: Prepared Contrabass Recorder (brass shim), Electronics

    Jujun una voce (2009) 12’
    
Orchestration: Flute (bass, piccolo & C) Electronics (8 channel track (Max/Msp patch)

    Kuss! for Urbo Kune (2014) - 5′

    Orchestration: Saxophone (alto) (pedagogical work)

  • Dance Me to My Rebirth (2017) 8′

    Orchestration : Harpsichord, ping-pong balls (video score)
    
Alternate Orchestration : Harpsichord, Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Little things grow (2022) 3’
    ′
Orchestration: Piano, Electronics

  • Ave Maria (2020) 3’30”
    Chorus: SSAA

    haus der wünsche (2018) 4′
    Chorus: TTTTBBBB
    Text: Maja Haderlap, Tamara Friebel

    träumende sprache (2018) 4′ 
Chorus: TTTTBBBB
    Text: Maja Haderlap

  • Attractive Privacies of Breathing Borders, in one solitary universe. (2015) 8′
    
Chorus: SSATB
    Orchestration: flute

    Illuminations (2021) 54′

    Krems Version
    Soloist: Soprano solo
    Chorus: SSSAAATTTBBB
    Orchestration: Flute(Bass, C), Cello, Percussion

    Text: Sanskrit Beej Mantras

    Illuminations Ossiach (2023) 8′

    Ossiach Version
    Chorus: SSAATTBB
    Orchestration: Violin
    Text: Sanskrit Beej Mantras

  • An Epic in the Glasshouse (2010) 15’
    Soloist: Soprano
Orchestration: cl/vn.vc. Electronics

    Aria to fallen blossoms (2014) 8′

    Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration:fl/cl/vn.
    Text: Japanese

    Sappho Fragments (2017, 2020, 2022) – 23′
    I. Awakened Flutters II. A Silver Birth III. Crown thy Earth
    
Orchestration: Soprano, Violin

    Text: Sappho, Ancient Greek

    cotted child of yestereve (2007) 9′
    
Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration: 2 string quartets
    
Text: excerpts from James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake

    Exquisite Loneliness, Breathe. (2015) 13′
    
Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration: Recorder(sop), Perc. Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Hommage á Pablo Neruda (2005) 8′
    
I. Always you haunt me
II. Sometimes a piece of sun
 III. No one saw

    Orchestration: Soprano, Piano
    
Text: after Pablo Neruda, Tamara Friebel

    Jujun (2009) 11′
    Soloist: Soprano
    
Orchestration: fl/va.pf (prepared) & Yin Yang balls, Electronics
    Text: Mary Bautista (Tzotzil Poetry)

    Kleine Worte (2007) 3′
    
Orchestration: Soprano, Piano
    
Text: Tamara Friebel

    Know thy swan (2022) – 10′

    Soloist: Soprano
    
Orchestration: Saxophone (sop), Percussion (Quartz Bowls)
    Text: Sanskrit Beej Mantras

    Lotus Sonnet (2022) – 10′

    Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration: Clarinet, Piano
    Text: Tamara Friebel

    One Light (2021) – 18′

    Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration: Flute, Accordion, Percussion
    
Text: Tamara Friebel, German/English/Sanskrit

    Sappho: insolentia papyrus fragments (2007) 12’
    
Soloist: Soprano & wineglass
    Orchestration: prepared piano, Electronics (sound installation recording 24 hours)
    
Text: Sappho, Ancient Greek fragments

    The Dissociative Said (2011) 4′

    Soloist: Soprano, Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Text: Tamara Friebel

    The Ocean of Beauty (2022) 5’
    Soloist: Alto, Soprano
    
Text: Saundarya Lahari

    The stars are still in your eyes (2015) 14′

    Soloist: Soprano & Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Trill of the Human Bird, a Metamorphosis (2011) 14’
    Soloist: Soprano
    
Orchestration: Electronics & “steel instrument”

    Text: Tzotzil Poets Mary Bautista & Mariando Reynaldo Vazquez Lopez

    Voice Triptych : Voce silenzio, voce acqua, voce sogno (2008) 13’
    Soloist: Soprano
    
Orchestration: keyboards (harpsichord, celesta, prepared piano) Electronics
    Text: excerpts from numerous authors in Nathalie Latham’s “speaking through water”

    yelobal karaoke (2009) 7’
    Soloist: Soprano
    
Orchestration: pf (prepared) & Yin Yang balls, Electronics

    Text: Mary Bautista (Tzotzil Poetry)

  • Canto Morph (2012) 45′
    Soloist: Soprano, Recorder(soprano)
    
Orchestration: fl/clvn.vc.pf Electronics
    
Libretto: excerpts from Ada Negri’s Tempeste (1896)

    Of secrets, I am silence (2016) 60’

    for Schloss Damtschach/Carinthischer Sommer
    
Tamara Friebel(Artistic Director & Concept: Art project with multiple sound installations, video installation, performance, compositions)
    
Artists: Tamara Friebel (Piano, Vocals), Herwig Neugebauer (G-Violone), Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg (actress), Marie Orsini-Rosenberg (Baroque Cello), Markus Orsini-Rosenberg (painter)

    Suns & Daughters (2017) 60′
    
for Schloss Damtschach/Carinthischer Sommer

    Tamara Friebel (Artistic Director & Concept: Art project with multiple sound installations, film/performance, compositions)
Concept: Tamara Friebel
    Artists: David Bergmüller (Lute),Tamara Friebel (Piano, Vocals), Herwig Neugebauer (G-Violone), Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg (actress), Marie Orsini-Rosenberg (Baroque Cello), Markus Orsini-Rosenberg (painter)

    There’s no clock in the forest (2019) 60’
    for Schloss Damtschach/Carinthischer Sommer

    Tamara Friebel (Artistic Director & Concept: Art project with multiple sound installations, film/performance, compositions)

    Artists: David Bergmüller (Lute), Roswitha Dokalik (Baroque violin), Tamara Friebel (Piano, Vocals), Herwig Neugebauer (G-Violone), Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg (actress), Marie Orsini-Rosenberg (Baroque Cello), Markus Orsini-Rosenberg (painter)

    The Unself Triptych: Nausea, Alterity, Stollen (2009/12) 50’
    
Orchestration: viola d’amore, toy piano, piano, flutes(piccolo, alto flute, flute) voice & electronics 
Video: Tamara Friebel

    Nausea (2009) 20′

    Orchestration: viola d’amore, toy piano, piano & electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel
    
Text: a reflection on Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, De l’évasion, 1935
    
Alterity (2010) 20′

    Orchestration: flute(piccolo, alto & flute), toy piano, piano & Electronics
    Text: a reflection on Emmanuel Levinas, On Escape, De l’évasion, 1935
    Video: Tamara Friebel
    
Stollen (2012) 5′

    Orchestration: Vocals, Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel


    You are My dream (2015) 50’
    

Part I: The stars are still in your eyes (2015) 14′

    Soloist: Soprano & Electronics
    
Part II: Warmth (2013) 15′
    
Soloist: Soprano
Orchestration: Cello, Perc, Electronics
    
Part III: Exquisite Loneliness, Breathe. (2015) 13′
    Soloist: Soprano

    Orchestration: Recorder(sop), Perc. Electronics
    Libretto: Tamara Friebel
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Warmth (2013) 15′
    Soloist: Soprano

    Orchestration: Cello, Perc, Electronics

  • Deflections: A sonic circus Performance, 2. Act (2011) 30′

    with Nathalie Koger/BRUT Production Vienna
    
I. blind etude 
II. paint étude
 III. live prepared electronics etude 
IV. silent étude
 V. foil étude
 VI. slow motion etude
    
Orchestration: prepared Aerial Ring, samples/deflections, prepared “hula hoops” and foil with live-electronics
    Dance/Choreography: Annabel Carberry

    Hula Hoop. I’m out of breath. All for you. (2012) 15′

    Orchestration: Electronics, brass shim & objet trouvé – 2 coffee grinders, gramophone
    Choreography/Dance: Annabel Carberry (hula hoops)
    Video: Tamara Friebel “an antique Estey pump organ”

    …I’m out of breath… all for you (2012) 15′
    
Orchestration: Vocalist/Sprechstimme, Accordion, Perc (Tam-Tam), Electronics, Objects: brass shim & objet trouvé – 2 coffee grinders, gramophone
    Choreography/Dance: Annabel Carberry (hula hoops)
    Video: Tamara Friebel “an antique Estey pump organ”

    Suffragi (2008-9) 52’
    
Suffragi “Anonymous” homage á Shostakovich (2008) 14′

    Orchestration: String Quartet
    Video: Nathalie Latham
    Dance/Choreography: Evguenia Chtchelkova
    Costume: Melinda Stokes
    
Suffragi “Anonymous” (2009) 14′
Orchestration: String Quartet
    Alternate Orchestration: Electronics
    Video: Nathalie Latham
    
Suffragi “Muskat” homage á Bach (2007) 12′
    Orchestration: Viola
    Video: Nathalie Latham
    
Suffragi “Muskat” (2009) 12′
    
Orchestration: viola d’amore (prepared) & Electronics
    Video: Nathalie Latham

    There was never any war up here. (2014) 12′

    Soloist: Soprano
    Orchestration: fl, vn.vc.perc.accordion Electronics
    Concept/Text/Composition: Tamara Friebel
    Video: Nathalie Latham
    Choreography/Dance: Evguenia Chtchelkov

  • Jsimtasbanajetik (2009) 12′

    Orchestration: Electronics (8-channel)
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    The Dissociative Said (2015) 5′

    Orchestration: Electronics (4 channel), gramophone
    Video: Nathalie Latham “A Perennial Memory”

    The Spring (2019)
    The Spring 5’54”
    Hang a Pearl 6’14”
    Come, Come (Varuna Mantra) 19’01”
    Orchestration: Electronics (multi-channel diffusion)
    Text: Sanksrit

    ‘This is the time when I also have nothing more to say’ (2012) 10′

    Orchestration: Electronics (8-channel diffusion)

  • 40, 000 years of modern art, a re-enactment (2012) 20’
    Project: Khadija Carroll
    Tamara Friebel: Sound & performance Concept
    Artists: Joanna Christie (voice) and Kirill Burlov (dance & choreography), Tamara Friebel (live electronics, mirror glass plates & pencils)
    Saturday Event: on Language | ICA The Mall London

    A body of one’s own: Schismogenesis (2012) 15′
    
Orchestration: Contrabass Recorder (Gobi Drab), Electronics (5 microphones)

    A Dried Memory (2014) 12′

    Orchestration: Recorder (Paetzold, Soprano) (Gobi Drab) & 2 Gramophones: with 3 records

    Hast du mein Bild gehört/Have you heard my picture? (2012) 20′

    Orchestration: Recorder, samples, a helium balloon loudspeaker & Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Her speaking is as soft as a lotus (2019) 2’32”

    Orchestration: Voice, Electronics (4-channel Max/Msp)
    Text: Tamara Friebel

    Luftadern/Balloon Artery (2012) 20′
    
Orchestration: Recorder (Paetzold contrabass) & Electronics (balloon loudspeakers)

    Stollen (2012) 5′

    Orchestration: Vocals, Electronics
    Video: Tamara Friebel

    Summer’s Honey Breath (2019)
    Orchestration: Cello, Electronics

    Surrender, the dream (2016)
    Orchestration: Vocals, Zither, Electronics
    
Video: Tamara Friebel

    The Hourglass | Die Sanduhr (2013) 15’
    Orchestration: Vocals, Electronics
    Tamara Friebel (voice, laptop, electronics, instruments)
    Video: Nathalie Latham

    There’s no clock in the forest (2019) 2’41”
    Orchestration: Voice, Electronics (4-channel Max/Msp)
    Text: Tamara Friebel, Shakespearean Sonnets

    Without fire, charcoal, charred for a beautiful Boesendorfer (2012)
    Orchestration: Piano (prepared with charcoal on paper)
    Tamara Friebel (piano improvisation, recordings, producer) CD AO& 2045 no 13
Sound engineer: Christoph Amann, Curator: Luke Matthews

    w/rap (2011) 15’

    Orchestration: Contrabass Recorder, Vocals, Electronics

  • Audio Field Report no.18 (2014)
    Interview with Tamara Friebel by Knut Remond
    Limited Edition MC cassette, 8 copies numbered.

    Speaking through water (2008) 5’
    
Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel (vocals, mixing, mastering)
    Concept & Video: Nathalie Latham

    Sun’s a Sister (2022) - 2’
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel (vocals, keyboard, mixing, mastering)
    Video: Renate Kordon

    The Rise and Fall (2012) 8′
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel -composition - a vinyl record, sides A & B
    Artists: Hassan Hilmy (Arabic Translation) Readers: Issam Yahya, Leila Ezz-zine, Aisha Rbib, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Singers: سميرة المهنديز samira elmohadiz, ليلى مدوس laila modaouas, منى المطفر mouna elmodafar, إلهام الطالبي ilham etalibi, جميلة كروان jamila karaouane, فاطمة الزهراء نواس fatimazahraa naouas, لطيفة الغويشي latifa elghouichi, خديجة كوانكة khadija gounga, نورة بلبصير noura belbasir
    Project: Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll & Alex Schweder - The Rise and Fall

    Trickptychon (2022) - 6’43”
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel (mixing, mastering)
    Artists: Sarah Chentalier (vocals), Tamara Friebel (vocals, Tibetan bowls, Bansuri Flutes), David Honegger (vocals)
    Video: Renate Kordon (1984)

    Was Schert es mich (2022) - 1’43”
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel (stork samples, mixing, mastering)
    Video: Renate Kordon (1984)

  • 24 hours (2002)
Installation: Old tram poles prepared with fishing wire, bark and old tram studs in a fenced off yard “Unintrusive” Land Art, Brunswick, Melbourne

    4 detuned piano études for Italo Calvino (2010) 8′
    
Video: Tamara Friebel (performance: Tamara Friebel (Piano)

    a little city in my wohnzimmer (2014)
    Installation: Old cupboard with shelving open, glass mirror inscribed, STL 3d models, projector, ghee lamp, Loudspeakers(stereo)
    Soundscape: Who is ruling your kingdom dear ambrosia? (2014)

    An accidental feminism (2014) 5′
    Video & Soundtrack : Tamara Friebel

    A perennial Memory (2014) 20′
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel with recorder (Gobi Drab)
    Video: Nathalie Latham
    Installation: Cut flowers, Glass plates

    Flowers given into sound (2017)
    Exhibition: Photographic prints, 3d STL Models, Painted silk, Video installations, Various Prints
    Kunsthaus Deutschvilla, Group Exhibition “Sehen des Hörens”

    Glaskolben | Receiver (2013)
    Installation: video, voice track & white plaster Autumn leaves
    Artists: Tamara Friebel (Soundtrack), Nathalie Latham (Video), Bettina Wohlfender (Poetry, Sculpture)

    I love you (2011)
Installation: Video projection, 6 channel for 14 Miniature loudspeakers, Objet trouvé (sea shells, a cupboard, chairs, film projection board and an old lute)
    Permanent Collection Kranich Museum | Germany

    Lady Justitia weighs her beauty, her words, her power over the forsaken with the weightlessness of snow (2012) 10′ 
Video: Tamara Friebel

    The Dissociative Said (2011) 2′
    Video & Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel with Loré Lixenberg (soprano)

    Sisters of the Labyrinth (2024)
    Exhibition: Printed 3d object in rosa quarz filament, set in branches, hung with fishing wire Sound Object with antique loudspeaker, soundtrack to Tricktypchon
    Exhibition with Renate Kordon (Animation “Tricktypchon”, Paintings)

    Somewhere between life and decay (2013)
    Installation: Drying, decaying flowers: Amaryllis, Ranunculus, enamelled copper wire
Album Release: Tamara Friebel (piano) Limited Edition of 20

    There was never any war up here (2014)

    Video: Nathalie Latham
    Soundtrack: Tamara Friebel
    Installation: books, wire
Rondo Open Atelier, August 5 2014

    The stars are still in your eyes (2015) 14′
    Video & Soundtrack : Tamara Friebel

    Who is ruling your kingdom, dear ambrosia? (2014)
    Soundscape: Tamara Friebel
    Installed in Knut Remond’s loudspeaker installation, Ohrenhoch, Berlin

    Zero-Crossings (2013) 20’

    Installation: Video in wooden apple box 20′
    Galerie 69, Graz | Summer Confluence – Rondo KunstlerInnen, Aug 5 – 23 2013

  • A thousand petals (2020)
    Crazy little sunshine girl (2020)
    Garden (2022)
    Sun’s a Sister (2022)
    The Crown of Love (2020)

    Shakespeare Sonnets: (2019)
    Tears are Pearl
    Text: Sonnet 34 Original, Sonett 19, transl. Josef Czernin

    In one of thine (Heran, in einem deinem)
    Text: Sonet 11, transl. Klaus Reichert

    Sweets
    Text: Sonnet 8 Original & transl. Klaus Reicher

    Ganz bei Dir
    Text: Sonnet 16 Reichert

    Florabeat: (2019) (with Kaoko Amano, Soprano)
    She sings like a diva
    Sappho
    Heartbeat
    Rebirth

    In Every World: (2019)
    Your eyes light up my day
    Going down to pray
    Hearing your tenderness call
    Her garden was love
    In every world
    Let her be
    On the sea of gold
    Smile my stranger
    What were you then, my darling?
    Take her to the river
    Dancing with the sun
    A noontide
    This dream is breathing for the little ones

    Before the Soft Wind: (2013)
    Entangled
    Run for the Sun
    Nietzsche’s Lover
    The Hourglass
    Dear Father’s Home
    Wonderland
    Let down your golden hair
    Ned’s Masquerade
    You are my mantra
    La Petite Châtelaine (2013)
    The Wishing Well (2010)
    Fifth Grade (2010)
    Drive me to a distant shore (2010)
    The Cricket Song (2010)
    Who trapped the devil in the mountain (2010)