Oliver Schneller
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Oliver Martin Schneller is a German composer
and saxophonist.
, he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (1990–91).
In 1994 he moved to the USA, first studying composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston. From 2000-01 he lived in Paris attending a yearlong course at IRCAM
/Centre Pompidou. In 2002 he received his doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University
as a student of Tristan Murail
, where he also taught composition and computer music as an assistant to Murail. During his time in New York Schneller developed and managed the Computer Music Studio at the Graduate Center of CUNY
and taught harmony and counterpoint at Baruch College. Masterclasses with Salvatore Sciarrino
, Jonathan Harvey
, Brian Ferneyhough
, George Benjamin
, and Vinko Globokar
provided important orientations. From 2002 to 2004 he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM working on "Jardin des fleuves" a work for ensemble and live-electronic.
Oliver Schneller's music has been performed at international festivals such as Festival Agora Paris, Musica Strasbourg, Münchener Biennale, Maerzmusik Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
, Ultraschall, Wien Modern, IFNM Darmstadt, Tremplins Paris, Les Musiques Marseille, musique action Nancy, Musica nova, Wintermusic Berlin, Karnatic Lab, Alternativa Moscow, the International Computer Music Conference
, in Singapore and Göteborg, Musicaaoustica Beijing, Takefu Japan, Indaba, Aspen Music Festival and School
, Tanglewood Music Festival
, "Frankfurt 2000", and the "Millenium Stage Series" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
He was a Visiting Composer at the 2001 Festival of Contemporary Music at the University of Cincinnati
Conservatory of Music, and a featured composer at Festival Résonances at IRCAM
(2002).
His works have been performed by numerous ensembles including Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain
, MusikFabrik
, Ictus Ensemble
, Avanti!
, Ensemble recherche, Speculum Musicae
, Court Circuit, Ensemble Mosaik, Südwestrundfunk
Orchestra, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
, Ensemble Courage, Antares, the Tanglewood
Symphony Orchestra, and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble.
As a saxophonist, he has performed with the George Russell
Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony under Seiji Ozawa
, with the Tanglewood Music Center
Orchestra as a soloist in Tan Dun
's "Red Forecast", as well as with musicians such as Steve Drury
, Heather O'Donnell
, Jiggs Whigham
(Big Band), Bernhard Lang
, Ned McGowan
, Robin Hayward, Vinko Globokar
, and Gert Matthias Wegner.
In 2004 he was the artistic director of the "Tracing Migrations" Festival in Berlin which led to the foundation of the "Tracing Migrations Project", an ongoing documentation and permanently updated data base of contemporary compositions, recordings and newly founded music institutions from the Arab world.
In 2005 he was the curator of the project "The Musical Moment" at Berlin's House of World Cultures featuring composers Toshio Hosokawa
and Helmut Lachenmann
. From 2005-06 he was a guest lecturer and "mentor" in Cairo as part of the GLOBAL INTERPLAY project of Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart.. At the Universität der Künste in Berlin he taught the seminar "Psychoacoustics and Acoustics for Composers".
Schneller is the artistic director of the SinusTon Festival for Experimental Music in Magdeburg which he co-founded with Carsten Gerth in 2008. In 2004, together with Jean-Luc Hervé and Thierry Blondeau, he formed the composers collective "Biotope".
From 2009-2010 Schneller held a professorship in composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart as a sabbatical replacement for Prof. Marco Stroppa
. Since 2009 he serves as Sound Arts Curator of ha'atelier Platform for Philosophy and Art.
He is married to pianist Heather O'Donnell
.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and saxophonist.
Life
Schneller grew up in Ireland, Sudan, Belgium and the Philippines. After completing a MA in musicology, political science and history at the University of BonnUniversity of Bonn
The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...
, he worked for the Goethe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal (1990–91).
In 1994 he moved to the USA, first studying composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston. From 2000-01 he lived in Paris attending a yearlong course at IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
/Centre Pompidou. In 2002 he received his doctoral degree in composition at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
as a student of Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
, where he also taught composition and computer music as an assistant to Murail. During his time in New York Schneller developed and managed the Computer Music Studio at the Graduate Center of CUNY
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
and taught harmony and counterpoint at Baruch College. Masterclasses with Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...
, Jonathan Harvey
Jonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...
, Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...
, George Benjamin
George Benjamin (composer)
George William John Benjamin, CBE is a British composer of classical music. He is also a conductor, pianist and teacher....
, and Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...
provided important orientations. From 2002 to 2004 he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM working on "Jardin des fleuves" a work for ensemble and live-electronic.
Oliver Schneller's music has been performed at international festivals such as Festival Agora Paris, Musica Strasbourg, Münchener Biennale, Maerzmusik Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
The Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik is a music festival for contemporary chamber music, jointly organised by the town Witten in the Ruhr Area and the broadcasting station Westdeutscher Rundfunk...
, Ultraschall, Wien Modern, IFNM Darmstadt, Tremplins Paris, Les Musiques Marseille, musique action Nancy, Musica nova, Wintermusic Berlin, Karnatic Lab, Alternativa Moscow, the International Computer Music Conference
International Computer Music Conference
The International Computer Music Conference is a yearly international conference for computer music researchers and composers. It is the annual conference of the International Computer Music Association ....
, in Singapore and Göteborg, Musicaaoustica Beijing, Takefu Japan, Indaba, Aspen Music Festival and School
Aspen Music Festival and School
The Aspen Music Festival and School, founded in 1949, is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents music in an intimate, small-town setting...
, Tanglewood Music Festival
Tanglewood Music Festival
The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Lenox, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts....
, "Frankfurt 2000", and the "Millenium Stage Series" at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
He was a Visiting Composer at the 2001 Festival of Contemporary Music at the University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
Conservatory of Music, and a featured composer at Festival Résonances at IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
(2002).
His works have been performed by numerous ensembles including Ensemble modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain
Ensemble InterContemporain
The Ensemble InterContemporain is a French chamber orchestra, based in Paris at the Cité de la musique and IRCAM, which specialises in contemporary classical music....
, MusikFabrik
Musikfabrik
The musikFabrik is an ensemble for contemporary music located in Cologne. Their official name is: musikFabrik Landesensemble NRW e.V. .-Overview:...
, Ictus Ensemble
Ictus Ensemble
Ictus Ensemble is a Belgian orchestra, founded by Jean-Luc Plouvierin 1994, specialising in Contemporary classical music...
, Avanti!
Avanti!
Avanti! is a 1972 American/Italian comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder. The film starred Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L...
, Ensemble recherche, Speculum Musicae
Speculum Musicae
Speculum Musicae is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in New York City in 1971 and is particularly noted for its performances of the music of Elliott Carter...
, Court Circuit, Ensemble Mosaik, Südwestrundfunk
Südwestrundfunk
The Südwestrundfunk is a public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany, specifically the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The company has main offices in three cities: Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, with the director's office being in Stuttgart. It is an...
Orchestra, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, also known as KNM Berlin, is a music ensemble for contemporary music based in Berlin, Germany.The ensemble was founded in 1988 in then East Berlin by students of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"...
, Ensemble Courage, Antares, the Tanglewood
Tanglewood
Tanglewood is an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. It was the venue of the Berkshire Festival.- History...
Symphony Orchestra, and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble.
As a saxophonist, he has performed with the George Russell
George Russell
George Allen Russell was an American jazz pianist, composer and theorist. He is considered one of the first jazz musicians to contribute to general music theory with a theory of harmony based on Jazz rather than European music, in his book, The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization...
Big Band, the Gustav Mahler Youth Symphony under Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa
is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...
, with the Tanglewood Music Center
Tanglewood Music Center
The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience...
Orchestra as a soloist in Tan Dun
Tan Dun
Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...
's "Red Forecast", as well as with musicians such as Steve Drury
Stephen Drury
Stephen Drury is an American pianist, conductor and electronic musician.Drury has performed and recorded a range of compositions by classical and contemporary composers including Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, John Cage, Frederic Rzewski, and John Zorn...
, Heather O'Donnell
Heather O'Donnell
Heather O'Donnell is an American classical pianist, currently living in Berlin, Germany.- Life :She began studying piano at the age of five, her most influential teachers were Charles Milgrim, Stephen Drury and Peter Serkin. She also worked closely with Yvonne Loriod, Emanuel Ax, and Claude Helffer...
, Jiggs Whigham
Jiggs Whigham
Jiggs Whigham is an American jazz trombonist living in Europe.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his professional career at age 17, joining the Glenn Miller/Ray Mckinley orchestra in 1961...
(Big Band), Bernhard Lang
Bernhard Lang
Bernhard Lang is an Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde school, particularly advocating a style he has self-termed "repetition-perpetrator"....
, Ned McGowan
Ned McGowan
Ned McGowan is an American composer and flutist based in Amsterdam.“McGowan’s music strives for an idiom in which various musics – American popular, European classical and avant-garde, Carnatic, a fascination with proportionally intricate rhythms, the use of microtones in the search for new...
, Robin Hayward, Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...
, and Gert Matthias Wegner.
In 2004 he was the artistic director of the "Tracing Migrations" Festival in Berlin which led to the foundation of the "Tracing Migrations Project", an ongoing documentation and permanently updated data base of contemporary compositions, recordings and newly founded music institutions from the Arab world.
In 2005 he was the curator of the project "The Musical Moment" at Berlin's House of World Cultures featuring composers Toshio Hosokawa
Toshio Hosokawa
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Hosokawa studied with Yun Isang at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 1998, Hosokawa has served as Composer-in-Residence at the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Hosokawa became a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music...
and Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann
Helmut Lachenmann is a German composer associated with musique concrète instrumentale.-Life and works:...
. From 2005-06 he was a guest lecturer and "mentor" in Cairo as part of the GLOBAL INTERPLAY project of Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart.. At the Universität der Künste in Berlin he taught the seminar "Psychoacoustics and Acoustics for Composers".
Schneller is the artistic director of the SinusTon Festival for Experimental Music in Magdeburg which he co-founded with Carsten Gerth in 2008. In 2004, together with Jean-Luc Hervé and Thierry Blondeau, he formed the composers collective "Biotope".
From 2009-2010 Schneller held a professorship in composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart as a sabbatical replacement for Prof. Marco Stroppa
Marco Stroppa
Marco Stroppa is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics.-Biography:...
. Since 2009 he serves as Sound Arts Curator of ha'atelier Platform for Philosophy and Art.
He is married to pianist Heather O'Donnell
Heather O'Donnell
Heather O'Donnell is an American classical pianist, currently living in Berlin, Germany.- Life :She began studying piano at the age of five, her most influential teachers were Charles Milgrim, Stephen Drury and Peter Serkin. She also worked closely with Yvonne Loriod, Emanuel Ax, and Claude Helffer...
.
Awards
- 1984 First Prize in Instrumental Performance of the Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian SchoolsInterscholastic Association of Southeast Asian SchoolsThe Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools is an association of six schools in and around Southeast Asia. The member schools are International School Bangkok , International School of Kuala Lumpur , International School Manila , Jakarta International School , Singapore American...
- 1996 Robert Starer Prize
- 1998 the Boris Rapoport Award for CompositionColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
- 1998 Meet The Composer Grant for Joyce Paraphrases
- 1998–2002 Presidential Fellowship from Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
- 1999 Commissioning Prize of the National Flute AssociationNational Flute AssociationThe National Flute Association , is the largest organization for flutists in the world. It is an association in the United States.It was founded by Mark Thomas.-External links:*...
- 1999 Benjamin Britten Memorial Fellowship, Tanglewood Music CenterTanglewood Music CenterThe Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience...
- 2000 Paul Fromm Award Tanglewood Music CenterTanglewood Music CenterThe Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience...
/Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... - 2002 Residency at the Maison-Heinrich-Heine in Paris
- 2004-05 Fellowship Bavarian Ministry of Science and Culture, Villa Concordia Bamberg
- 2006-07 Rome Prize Fellowship of the German Academy Villa MassimoVilla MassimoVilla Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....
, - 2010 Composition Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
- 2011 Fellowship Civitella Ranieri Foundation
Orchestral
- Gammes, full orchestra, 1995
- Tightrope Dancer, full orchestra, 1996
- Wu Xing/Fire, full orchestra, 2010
- Wu Xing/Metal, full orchestra, 2006-11
Chamber Music (1-4 players)
- Big City Divertimento, 4 saxophones, 1995
- Kumoijoshi, soprano saxophone, koto, 1995
- Hoqueterie, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, guitar, percussion, 1996
- Marsyas, amplified flute, amplified cello, 1996
- Processional Suite, 2 guitars, 1996
- Five Miniatures after Maurice Sendak, French horn, trumpet, trombone, 1998
- Joyce Paraphrases, amplified string quartet, tape, 1998
- Trio, cello, piano, accordion, 1999
- Phantom Islands, (14 players) + electronics, 2000
- Topoi, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2000
- Soleil in memoriam Iannis Xenakis, flute, piano, 2001
- String Space, violin, viola, cello + electronics, 2005
- Resonant Space, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, 2007
- per maggior intreccio, flute, harpsichord, 2007
- Rugged Space, accordeon, piano + electronics, 2009
- Die unendliche Feinheit des Raumes, organ, horn, tuba, percussion + electronics, 2005
- Vier Szenen, flute, percussion, piano, 2010
Chamber Music (5-22 players)
- Finnagain Speaking, 9 players, 1997
- Aqua Vit, 8 players, 1999
- Diastema, 14 players, 2001–02
- Jardin des fleuves, 16 players + electronics, 2002-04
- Clair/Obscur, 7 players + electronics, 2005-06
- Twilight Dialogues, 4 players, 2005
- Stratigraphie I, 6 players + electronics, 2007
- Musica ficta, 5 players + electronics, 2008
- Paysage sauvage, 4 players + electronics, 2009
- Stratigraphie II, 6 players + electronics, 2009-10
- Kagura, solo flute + 22 players, 2010-11
Vocal
- Rice Pudding (text by A.A. Milne), speaker, piano, 1993
- Three Songs after Hopkins, Shelley and Meredith, soprano, piano, 1994
- Alice Setting (text by Lewis Carroll), soprano, mixed chorus, piano, percussion, string orchestra, 1997
- Pour Schnabelmax. Hommage à Max Ernst (text by the composer), 3 male voices, 1999
- Candidumm lilium for vocal ensemble (SSTTB) + electronics, 2005
- Abendlied for voice, clavichord, violin, cello, 2009
Solo
- Vier Capricen, piano, 1989-90
- Sieben Bilder, piano, 1995
- Reed-Weed, alto saxophone, 1996
- Labyrinth, piano, 1996
- Aurora, piano, 1997
- Clouds, piano, 1998
- Five Imaginary Spaces, piano + electronics, 2001
- And Tomorrow, piano + electronics, 2004
- Turbulent Space, recorder + electronics, 2005
- Track & Field, piano, video + electronics, 2006-07
- Open Space, organ + electronics, 2011
Electroacoustic + Installation
- Variations on a Word, tape, 1997; Bell/Man, tape, 1998
- Proteus, tape, 1999
- Cell Cycle, for six channel audio + video, 2007
- La couleur du son, 4 channel audio-visual installation, 2005
- WuXing, five channel audio-visual installation, 2007
- Voice Space, six channel interactive audio-visual installation, 2007
- An Atlas of Sounds, 42 Channel audio-visual Installation, 2009-10
Collaborative Works
- Trojan Lion, 5.1 Channel interaktive sound installation with Peter Wyss, 2010
- Lichtkörper (2009): 4 Channel Sound Installation for suspended speakers with Alexander Polzin, 2009
- IO, 5.1 Channel Installation with Curtis Anderson, 2006
- Cento Correnti (2006) 20.1 Channel Sound Installation with Iris Dupper, 2006
- Ritratto Romano, Soundtrack to a video work of Christoph Brech, 2006
- Duets I-VII (2006-11): Soundtracks to seven video works of Eberli/Mantel, 2006-11
- Imperfect Enjoyment, Soundtrack to a video work of Almut Determeyer, 2004
Arrangements
- Sechs kleine Klavierstücke (Nos. 1,2,6), Op. 19 (Arnold Schoenberg), orchestra, 1989
- Zehn Märsche um den Sieg zu verfehlen (Nos. 5,9) (Mauricio Kagel), orchestra, 1995
- All of Me, full orchestra, 2007
- My Funny Valentine, full orchestra, 2007
Publications (selection)
- Klänge einer Ausstellung . Anmerkungen zum kontrapunktischen Soundparcours von Taswir, in: "TASWIR. Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne", Nicolai Verlag Berlin, 2009, pp. 133-137
- Akustisches Modell und komponierte Struktur, Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt 2008, Schott Verlag Mainz, 2009, pp. 183-189
- Sechs Werke von Sebastian Stier. Schott Verlag/WERGO Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (Deutscher Musikrat), Booklettext WER 6569 2 (2008)
- Migration and Identity: Perspectives in Contemporary Arabic Music, Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Pfau Verlag, 2006, pp. 127-139
- HörRaum Stadt, Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik 2003/2004, Pfau Verlag 2006, pp. 99-100
- Raumklang-Klangraum: Über Pierre Boulez' Répons, Magazin der Berliner Philharmoniker, October 2005, pp. 38-40
- Braucht die Neue Musik den Kammermusiksaal?, Bauwelt 8/05 (2005), pp. 26-27
- Tristan Murails Terre d’Ombre, Berliner Festspiele (Hg.), MaerzMusik. Festival für aktuelle Musik 2004, Saarbrücken Pfau Verlag 2004, pp.138-139
- A Contemporary Response to Charles Ives in: Berliner Festspiele (Hg.), MaerzMusik. Festival für aktuelle Musik 2004, Saarbrücken (Pfau) 2004, pp. 146-153
- Klangschicht und Zeitharmonik. Begegnung mit Gottried Michael Koenig, Programmheft zu den “3. Magdeburgischen Concerten”. Festtage zur Musikgeschichte Magdeburgs, October 2003
- Music und Raum, Research Commission from the House of World Cultures (HKW) Berlin 2003
- Sonic Arts in Germany, M.I.T. Press Computer Music Journal 26, 4 (Spring 2002), pp. 54-57
- Chambres Séparées, KOMA, entrop, Zwischenwelten: Gerhard Winkler, M.I.T. Press Computer Music Journal 25, 1 (2001): pp. 75-76
- Material Matters Current Musicology 67/68 (Winter 2002): pp. 156-174
- IRCAM at Columbia 1999, Dossier d'Information IRCAM, No 18 (October 2000), pp. 136-138)
- Musik und Utopie, Universalmaschine Heft 02, Berlin (2001), pp. 68-70
- Donald Martino's Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, CD-liner text© New World Records. Recorded Anthology of American Music, No. 80529-2 (1998)
Translations (selection)
- Helmut Lachenmann - Four Questions Regarding New Music transl. into English for: Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 23, No. 3/4 (September 2004)
- James Harley - "Sonic and Parametrical Entities in Tetras: An Analytical Approach to the Music of Iannis Xenakis, transl. into German for: Musiktexte 91 (December 2001)
- Neil Leonard.1994. "Kompromißlos und fortschrittlich. Juan Blanco:Kubas Pionier der Elektroakustischen Musik, transl. into German for: Musiktexte 96 (Mai 2003)
External links
- Kurzporträt Oliver Schneller von Margarete Zander (Audio, German), 6'43" © Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, 2010
- Komponistenporträt Oliver Schneller Deutscher Musikrat (Video, German), 9'31" © EZM Blog Zeitgenössische Musik, 2011
- Documentary Clip on Oliver Schneller's "Atlas of Sounds" by Merit Fakler (Video, German/English), 3'33" © taswir.org/merit-fakler.de, 2010
- Sound Object and Composed Space by Markus Böggemann (text, English) © Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, 2010
- Entretien avec Oliver Schneller by Eric Denut (text, French) © accents. la revue de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain No. 24, 2004
- Oliver Schneller par Bastien Gallet (text, French) © Ircam/Centre Pompidou, 2004
- Vom musikalischen zum architektonischen Raum by Stefan Drees (text, German) © Römische Perspektiven, Altana Kulturstiftung, 2007
- Die unendliche Feinheit des Raumes. Porträtsendung Oliver Schneller von Stefan Amzoll, 26.2.2011, 59' © Deutschlandfunk, 2011
- Porträtsendung Oliver Schneller von Rainer Pöllmann, Radioporträt 21.9.2010, 59' © Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2010
- Musik der Gegenwart. Oliver Schneller im Gespräch mit Martin Demmler, Radioporträt 25.9.2003, 59' © RBB Kulturradio, 2003
- CD-Rezension von Raphael Smarzoch (Audio, German), 5'40" © WDR 3, 2011
- Klangräume und Irritationen CD-Rezension von Stefan Drees, © Klassik.com, 2010