JULIUS HOLTZ

Frontpage made with Lay ThemeMy new Album "Fragments of Fiction" is released. The Album is a collection of pieces written been between 2014 and 2018. These derive from fictional and non fictional audible spaces. They depict a highly subjective sound world that is inspired by variable spaces: By living in a bungalow located in the back yard of a farm by the Mexican Pazifik, as well as music studios and art galleries in Europe. Fragments of Fiction contains the piece „Cloud Seeding“, originally composed in a spatialized 3D-audio format and presented by Berliner Festspiele in 2018. Spatial transformations and imaginary places are recurring themes trough the album. Synthesized sound worlds mash with tweaked field recordings to narrate the story of possible future sonic environments. Immersed in sound, the notion of space is expanded into all audible perceivable: Geographical, social, and tactile space; vibrations of different origins that keep echoing and feeding back inside our bodies. I am happy to be working on this new project: We develop a mobile dome with fulldome projection and an immersive 3D audio system. I am advising Berliner Festspiele with the development of the sound system and will work with the invited artists on the spatialization of their pieces. Link

Duo ad.lib "Remix "
The performance duo "ad lib." ( Julius Holtz, live electronics and composition and Andreas Staffel, piano and composition) combines live-electronic music and instrumental piano performance and hence transposes Remix into contemporary music. Fragmentation, tempo, recontextualization and collages are means of revisiting iconic pieces of contemporary instrumental and acousmatic music, generating hybrids, fusions and contrasts.made with Lay Theme