Manos Tsangaris has always worked to expand and refine the use of media in his
composition and craft. His main focus is on how various human areas of perception are
linked to one another in art works and how they can be developed so as to converge.
Tsangaris has written pieces for conventional concert ensembles, but also writes literary
texts and creates art works and installations.
However, when these different media come together within one context, he is not
concerned merely with arranging them as skilfully as possible; rather, the composer is
principally interested in examining the intersections where such media combinations are
possible in the first place. The originality of his approach makes him one of the most
significant proponents of a new form of music theatre, an innovative artistic format
combining sound, speech and setting
(Patrick Müller)
from INNER CITIES
by Dorrit Bauerecker
Current music for piano, accordion and toy piano
therein: Viscum Album I-IV by Manos Tsangaris
Release: 04/2017, CD-Audio, 28-seitiges Booklet (de, en)
Edition Kaleidos
preview
15 - 29 May 2020
The Munich Biennale Festival of new music theater
Next Issue
21 April 2021
Onassis Cultural Center Athen
ATHINA RETURNS
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
première
4 - 6 November 2021
New York City (Baruch College Theatre)
Love & Diversity
w/ Talea-Ensemble
Es geht voran
chamber play for singer, actor, wind instruments,
percussion, passers-by
May 2019, Witten Days for New Chamber Music
Jörn Peter Hiekel Permanent Quest: The
Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris
in Composed Theatre AESTHETICS, PRACTICES, PROCESSES
edited by Matthias Rebstock und David Roesner
Bristol/Chicago 2012
Manos Tsangaris Music:City
in CULTURE:CITY
exhibition catalogue
Berlin/Zurich 2013
Manos Tsangaris UNUSUAL OBSERVING
in Journal der Künste No.13
Berlin, June 2020
Daniel Ott/Manos Tsangaris NEW Return
in the program book of 17th Munich Biennale for New Music
Theatre 2020
Munich 2020
mts*iike
mts* is involved in the area of Scenic Anthropology, which
means something like “anthropology in tents”…
Shellbum Album 1992
for Piano
played by Pi-hsien Chen
Hints
Actress according to City Pieces
Urbane Heilung according to City Pieces
DRUMS OFF CHAOS
to the homepage
full concert: Jaki Liebezeit - a Tribute (live)
philharmonie Cologne in January 2018
w/ Drums Off Chaos, Damo Suzuki, Michael Rother,
Dominik von Senger, Helmut Zerlett, Rosko Gee,
Gianna Nannini, Hans "Bäär" Maahn, Rüdiger Elze,
Ralf Gustke, Manfred Schoof, Gerd Dudek, Baba
Zula, Murat Ertel, Levent Akman, Pi-hsien Chen,
Jah Wobble, Marc Layton-Bennett, Irmin Schmidt,
René Tinner, Jono Podmore, Ian Tregoning, Robert
Coyne, Aglaja Camphausen, Werner Steinhauser
new track: Jaki Liebezeit - a Tribute (live)
performed by Drums Off Chaos, Jochen Irmler, Rosko Gee and
Dominik von Senger at Philhamonie Köln in January 2018
listen to on soundcloud
New book: Jaki Notes - The Life and Practice of a Master Drummer
by Jono Podmore
englisch
content:
- full biography with exclusive, previously unpublished
material, identifying themes and trends in Jaki’s life that
manifested in his thinking and playing
- explanation of Jaki’s E-T theory
- in-depth discussion with Drums Off Chaos introducing the
technical and craft aspects that were the expression of the
system
- exploration of the philosophical aspects of Jaki’s work and
outlook
- overview of Jaki’s selection of drums and percussion,
highlighting his modified and hand-made equipment
- the first ever complete discography of Jaki’s recordings
- selection of illustrations including previously unseen
photos of Jaki and reproductions of his own artwork.
ebook available at various booksellers
or at unbound (crowdfunding platform)
Love & Diversity 2019
Chios, Greece
Manos Tsangaris: Hidden Risk 2018
Catalogue for the concert installation in the
Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum Köln, September 2018
with the opening speech by Stefan Kraus (german and
english)
Jaki Notes - Hommage an/Homage to Jaki Liebezeit
by Manos Tsangaris
with photographs by Stefan Kraus
english translation by von Ann Cotten
144 pages, german/english
order here
winzig und der Elefant (winzig and the elephant)
musical theatre miniatures / theatre for a house
May 2019, Akademie der Künste Berlin
photographer: Kai Bienert
Es geht voran 2019
Witten Days for New Chamber Music 2019
photographer: Claus Langer
City Pieces (Window Piece)
for singer, performer, ensemble,
installation, light, video and audio guide
Acht Brücken Festival, Cologne 2019
news
New Form - New Hompage
now as "dynamic festival"
Pater Noster 2007
from Diskrete Stücke (Discreet Pieces) (1996/2007)
sound scenes for individual viewers
Abstract Pieces 2018
music theater for actors, instruments, space and light
commissoned by the Staatsoper Unter den Linden
premiere 19 May 2018, Berlin
camera: Erik Schimschar
animation, editing, director: Nastasja Keller