Integrated sound samples (in RealAudio format) and photos of interiors or of previous performances fulfil, on the one hand, the aim of post festum documentation. They also serve as information for artists living abroad, for whom this is the only way to get a first impression of the work. Furthermore, the computer program which generates the soundscape, was released as freeware which can be downloaded from the Internet:

A text generator called Playing Strategies (1998) was developed in the course of this project and implemented in JavaScript:

Each time the page is called up it produces a randomly generated four-liner, such as

These often cryptic allusions are intended to provoke creative interpretation and serve as mental preparation for the co-authoring musicians to question (and where possible overcome) internalised playing behaviour and acquired improvisation clichés.

Composition through collaboration

Instead of finished works (which exist as scores), open processes and experiment-formations are introduced into which other musicians and composers are integrated interactively. Thus, for example, the Amazing Maze (1996 ff.) work-in-progress for computer and live musicians, would be unthinkable without the Internet:

Originally this piece was conceived as a sound installation generated in real time, and was submitted in this form to the NEMO 96 festival in Chicago. Without any influence from me, the further development took an unexpected turn. The festival curator, the composer R. Albert Falesch, reacted movingly in suggesting that he should give the first performance himself. He perceived this piece not merely as a music installation but rather an instrument with which – together with live instrumentalists – exquisite music could be made. This offered the incentive for a chain of exciting metamorphoses: in an intensive E-mail based discussion we developed together a strategy for the performance, which finally culminated in the verbal description of a dramaturgical process. In this version Amazing Maze was premiered in the Chicago public library on 6 May 1996 together with the bass clarinettist Gene Coleman.