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
2 - 4 April 2020
New York City (Baruch College Theatre)
Love & Diversity
w/ Talea-Ensemble
15 - 29 May 2020
The Munich Biennale Festival of new music theater
Next Issue
22 May 2020
Rotterdam (Operadagen Rotterdam)
Love & Diversity
director: Michael Höppner - artistic direction: Evan Gardner
13 September 2020
Oslo, Ultima-Festival
MY HEART IS A MAP
for three percussionists/performers, one performer/passer, at least three
passers/performers in total, text projection, objects, thread organ, light
for Pinquins Percussion
w/ Jessie Marino und Lars Skoglund
première
21. April 2021
Onassis Cultural Center Athen
ATHINA RETURNS
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
première
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)
Elephant's Easy Moonwalk Through The Night
After 30 years, Nonplace is now rereleasing the A
side of the much sought-after maxi single
"Elephant's Easy Moonwalk Through The Night" by
Manos Tsangaris together with a new B side, created
especially for this release in 2017.
new B side: Drüm 3 (Elephants Cry Salty Tears)
new edition 2018
label: Nonplace
vinyl 12"
buy at forcedexposure
buy at kudosrecords
buy at junorecords
buy at bleep.com
buy at boompkat.com
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
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen weitergedreht
(The sun has continued to turn in the
meantime)
Festival Rümlingen, Swizerland 2018
City Pieces (Window Piece)
for singer, performer, ensemble,
installation, light, video and audio guide
Acht Brücken Festival, Cologne 2019
news
22 July 2020
M (2) - EINE STADT SUCHT EINEN MÖRDER (Wem nützt
welcher Schrecken?)
co-production with the Residenztheater
film preview as live performed ghost stream preview of the
premiere of the concert installation at the Residenztheater by
Schorsch Kamerun after Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou with
soundscapes by Cathy van Eck
Residenztheater Munich
9:30 pm
24 July 2020
ACH! Almost a Radio Opera
musical theatre
Participation project by and with course participants of the
Munich Volkshochschule
Utopia, Munich
6 pm / 8:30 pm
The originality of his approach makes Manos Tsangaris one of
the most significant proponents of a new form of music
theatre, an innovative artistic format combining sound,
speech and setting
(Patrick Müller)
preview
2 - 4 April 2020
New York City (Baruch College Theatre)
Love & Diversity
w/ Talea-Ensemble
15 - 29 May 2020
The Munich Biennale Festival of new music theater
Next Issue
22 May 2020
Rotterdam (Operadagen Rotterdam)
Love & Diversity
director: Michael Höppner - artistic direction: Evan
Gardner
13 September 2020
Oslo, Ultima-Festival
MY HEART IS A MAP
for three percussionists/performers, one
performer/passer, at least three
passers/performers in total, text projection,
objects, thread organ, light
for Pinquins Percussion
w/ Jessie Marino und Lars Skoglund
première
21. April 2021
Onassis Cultural Center Athen
ATHINA RETURNS
for piano
homage to Georges Aperghis (on his 75th birthday)
w/ Lenio Liatsou - piano
première
news
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)
Elephant's Easy Moonwalk
Through The Night
After 30 years, Nonplace is now
rereleasing the A side of the much
sought-after maxi single "Elephant's
Easy Moonwalk Through The Night" by
Manos Tsangaris together with a new
B side, created especially for this
release in 2017.
new B side: Drüm 3 (Elephants Cry Salty Tears)
new edition 2018
label: Nonplace
vinyl 12"
buy at forcedexposure
buy at kudosrecords
buy at junorecords
buy at bleep.com
buy at boompkat.com
Manos Tsangaris: Hidden Risk
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
Love & Diversity 2019
Chios, Greece
Die Sonne hat sich inzwischen
weitergedreht
(The sun has continued to
turn in the meantime)
Festival Rümlingen, Swizerland 2018
22 July 2020
M (2) - EINE STADT SUCHT EINEN MÖRDER (Wem nützt
welcher Schrecken?)
co-production with the Residenztheater
film preview as live performed ghost stream preview of
the premiere of the concert installation at the
Residenztheater by Schorsch Kamerun after Fritz Lang
and Thea von Harbou with soundscapes by Cathy van Eck
Residenztheater Munich
9:30 pm
24 July 2020
ACH! Almost a Radio Opera
musical theatre
Participation project by and with course participants of
the Munich Volkshochschule
Utopia, Munich
6 pm / 8:30 pm
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”…
