Antje Vowinckel

Antje Vowinckel is a Berlin based  composer, director and performer. In her compositions she is focused on „Prosodic Composition“, based on the musicality of spoken word.  She has been comissioned to do radio plays and sound compositions for a variety of public radio stations such as WDR,  DeutschlandRadio, SWR, BR, NDR as well as for foreign stations and festivals (ZKM Karlsruhe, TESLA Berlin, Biennale Bonn, Prix Italia, Festival for Contemporary Music Alicante, Tina B, Prag, Shut up, Vienna, Goethe-Institut Lissabon). She was awarded with numerous awards and grants, e. g. Prix Europa and Karl-Sczuka-Föderpreis. Her works have been broadcastand and  presented in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, USA.
In recent years, she has also created live performances, installations and a video composition. A number of her works employ fragments of documentary speech which are then transposed into a musical structure.  She uses instrumental and electronic instruments as well as every-day-life sounds which are interspersed between music and narration.
In her performance „organ and objects“ she plays an old Korg-Organ, percussion objects and objects in a vibrating speaker. Another organ performance is based on textes by Gertrude Stein.