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The new site will be bilingual and hopefully
much more appealing and informative.

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June 2011 news shorts :

In June is the culmination of Open_Music Stuttgart’s Jetzt! 2011, (at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart), the fourth annual production of our most ambitous multi-media event, this time involving over 100 kids from 4 various school forms. doing music, dance, acting, visual art, working with light and sound in new ways, putting it all togther. We have been working with these kids for the past few months in their school, a few groups longer than that. From this coming Monday (the 6th of June), we will all be working together in the Theaterhaus, Hall T2 and will present the fruits of our labor on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (8-10 June, Theaterhaus T2, Siemensstr 21, Stuttgart). More information (albeit in German) under: www.jetztinfo.eu. Particularly interesting on our website (open-music.eu) are several full-length videos there of Jetzt! productions since 2008! In Jetzt! I have both given most of the music workshops and try to serve as general director.

From the 14th to 16th June I will be returning to the national-level of the German Jugend Musiziert competition (this time in Neubrandenburg/Neustrelitz) to give 8 2-hour introductory free-improvisation workshops for participants in the competition. The workshops are organized and financed by the German jeunesses musicales.

On June 26th (8 pm – Kurhaus Bad Hamm) I will be in Hamm (with Mike Svoboda, Wolfgang Fernow and Michael Kiedaisch) for the KlassikSommer Hamm festival with the Mike Svoboda Ensemble doing Mike’s “14 Attempts at Learning to Love Wagner.”

“Übergang des Abendlandes ” (Transition of the Western World) is the working title of the two-man show that the Stuttgart poet, language-artist Timo Brunke and I are developing. Working with Timo is a great joy and we are looking forward to presenting our pilot project on the 29th of September in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart (with shows the next 3 evenings there). Since the beginning of 2011 we have been working together fairly regularly, developing material, jamming and are both very excited about how and where things are going. The collaboration is also a perfect complement to my solo project for cello & other (primarily electronic extensions of cello and speech) which I have been working on since last Fall called From Now On, For the Moment, Right Now (tout seul)… More on all this and more later – SR

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scottroller.de

This blog and pages are to document some of my various musical and educational activities right now and during the last 30 years making music one way or another, with the declared purpose of sparking new connections.

For about half of my 50-year sojourn on the planet I have lived in and worked out of Essen and Stuttgart, Germany. Work has taken me to most of the other important German cities (especially Cologne, Berlin and Frankfurt) and indeed to most other Central and Eastern European countries, mostly playing in, writing for and or improvising or interpreting, various “contemporary music” ensembles from solo and chamber music to larger formations, stylistically rather “promiscious” in welcoming the interpenetration of styles and non-styles from the “classical avantgarde,” experimental music, jazz, world music, myriad popular forms, employing at times electro-acoustics, technologies from basic-consumer to high-end , often in collaboration with artists of other media.

The last 15 years for me have been filled with exciting developments in improvisation / improvisation-education, which have expanded to include all forms of composition and artistic expression. In 2005, I and Ulrike Stortz founded a non-profit organisation in Stuttgart called Open_Music, e.V. which is closely and extensively involved in “Netzwerk Süd (Southern Network)” which is part of the national program for new music education funded by the National Cultural Foundation. This program runs from 2008 through 2011 and we are energetically looking beyond that towards a future rich in human encounters, fruitful collaborations, partnerships and viable forms of symbiotic interactions in art and life.
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Over the years a great number of scores, recordings, texts and all kinds of imagery have accumulated and this blog is my dynamic sorting-out and making-available to myself and others, my own little press. All scores, graphics, texts and audio-visual materials offered on the site are released with the agreement that all copyrights remain property of their respective holders (mostly myself) and that further commercial use is only allowed with my (and/or their) knowledge and approval. In general, conditions are understood to be on a Creative Commons License basis. I am a member of the German GEMA and GVL, who often take an interest in public performances of my work – please report performances and broadcasts, links…

[ SR, 20 Feb 2011 ]

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