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I—VIII · Signed and numbered editions | re—mastered & re—issued 2014/2015
one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven

You can order my re—mastered & re—issued physical Compact Discs via email. Price per CD: 8 Euro plus shipping.

re—issue [six] | 2014 · Train Sonor | weaving and unweaving [Self-Portrait]

Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Beginnings Part I, re—issue, 2015]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [The Beauty of Found Music, re—issue, 2015]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Instruments, re—issue, 2014]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Louis Mink Duos, re—issue, 2014]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Grotesques, re—issue, 2014]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Train Sonor, re—issue, 2014]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Music for Mark Rothko, re—issue, 2014]
Lichtensteiger | Koehler [Argonauts, 5-disc set, re—issue, 2015/2017]

musique trouvé catalog · download [176 KB]

Bird Song [2022] | open the project page
Grotesques II (2021) · [01:06:36] | open the project page [écouter]
Hurricane Ida [broadcast montage] [2021] | open the project page
Lecture on art
[without words, one] · open the project page
Khene [Komposition] [03:20] · open the project page
OK, JC [Text-Komposition/Tonbandmontage] · open the project page
Berlin [one] [2013] · Sound of the environment montage [extrait limité à 00:04:42] · open the project page
A Dictionary of Rehearsals | Collection [2013]
Eine Woche mit Hegel
[Theaterstück und Hörspiel] · Zusammenarbeit mit George Henry Koehler und Mira · open the project page
Colors | for two or more female vioces and black & white slide and/or digital projection [Tape I-VI] [1999/2013] · open the project page

signs [2011] · George Koehler, guitar · Ralph Lichtensteiger, gong, turntable, sound design and montage [Pro Tools LE]
Zikad [02:24] · open the project page

Sudden Shower [11:29] for electronics, flutes, percussion and tape recorder · open the project page
Golden Age [11:18] for double bass and electronics
Listening I and II [for Jesse Glass] · open the project page
dark message [2010-2011] · for voice, magnetic tape and small dark room · open the project page

écriture chiffrée I [for James M. Drew] [21:26] · open the project page
James Mulcro Drew · Composer (1929-2010) · open the tribute page

sonorité sans mémoire IV · voyage acoustique · four [2007] [Work in progress]
sonorité sans mémoire III · voyage acoustique · three [2005]
sonorité sans mémoire II · voyage acoustique · two [2005]
sonorité sans mémoire I
· voyage acoustique · one [2005] · open the project page

Supplement · sound collage [25:59]
sound assemblage [espace intermédiaire] [55:05] · open the project page

Tarasque for double bass and electronics [03:36] · open the project page
Flute stream [09:54] · open the project page
Beler Drone [two] [12:05] · part of Argonauts [2011]
Cluster medicine [pianodrone #2] [18:54]
Bass improvisation #3 [2008 version]

Improvisation for prepared piano [2008 version] · open the project page
Music for prepared piano I [2010 version] · open the project page

Recording six [04:22] · part of TrainSonor
musique trouvé xxxiv [extrait limité à 05:55] · open the project page

Klangcollage — [sculpture musicale] — Sound collage for John Cage · open the project page
101 Questions and Answers re John Cage
| with George Koehler [2001] · open the project page
Supernatural drone [guitardrone reverse] [17:02]

imagination dead imagine [nach Beckett] · Zusammenarbeit mit George Henry Koehler · open the project page
Arbeit am Mythos [Hörspiel] · In collaboration with George Henry Koehler
Hunger [Theaterstück und Hörspiel] · In collaboration with George Henry Koehler

Uglybeautycage · Dialogue with John Cage [2002-2005] · CD1 + CD2 · Zusammenarbeit mit George Henry Koehler · open the project page
finishing Ugly/Beauty [miswordings] [2002-2013] · for voice and sound system [computer] · Dokumentation und CD in Vorbereitung
1to15 · for any instrument [2002] · In collaboration with George Henry Koehler

tonBAND montage · Berlin, São Paulo [version a4] [2011/2012/2013] · in preparation
tonBAND montage · Zürich, Frankfurt am Main, Dublin, Berlin [version a3] [2011]
tonBAND montage · Zürich, Frankfurt am Main, Dublin, Berlin [version a2] [2011]
tonBAND
montage [version b] [2011] · open the project page

The Absolute is Passage [2010/2011/2012] [Composition for orchestra, tape, electronics and soprano voices/choir] · This piece contains concrete timbres and computer-generated sounds. Part I Strings a+b [20:30] · for strings, double bass, turntable, electronics [Max/MSP, Spongefork], oscillator, ambient recordings, tape delay · Software: Pro Tools LE · open the project page

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Golliwog for two marimbas [2011] · [Minimal piece based on Golliwog's Cake-walk, 61-64 by Debussy] · [extrait limité à 01:20] · link to mp3

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synoptiqueeuqitponys · Concerto for percussion, strings and tape [Tonband] [2011]
enjoy climate change · [part one 22:32] for e-guitar feedback system and electronic drones [2009/2010/2011/2012] · open the project page
Composition no. 2 for flute solo · [07:44] [2005]
nocturne I [12:11] [complete] · open the project page

Two Places [2000-2005] · Part I and Part II | for Matthew Rogalsky · open the project page
Montmajour | Sound environment for the Abbaye de Montmajour | Arles (France) [musique trouvé, 2CDs]
Le langage de l'espace [1st part, 2004]
Argonauts | [5-disc set] Work in progress · Clarinet I [motif] · Argonauts four · Argonauts Prologue Two [2006]
mirrors/flipside · for AC, for AS [musique trouvé, 2CDs]
musique trouvé xxxvi [extrait limité à 08:07] · open the project page

Silence | Silence · open the project page

Silence Song by Ralph Lichtensteiger · Silence Song [Saba Tewelde, voice] · Text [PDF] · No. 4 silence | silence · download [84 KB] | link to mp3

Strings C by Ralph Lichtensteiger · Listen to my Brain [one] Strings C · [extrait limité à 08:04] | link to mp3

Train Sonor: weaving and unweaving [Self-Portrait, 2007]

Collaborations with George Henry Koehler · Collaborations · open the project page

MY COMPOSITIONS at archive.org [Internet Archive] http://bit.ly/aSTMH0

Sudden Shower · this set of pieces is part of my collection "Music for the Un-Gated Community"
Argonauts · this set of pieces is part of my collection "Music for the Un-Gated Community"
gold/vomit · The metronome can teach you how to ignore the predictable — RL
Lighthouse · Lighthouse 1-3 includes material from 'mirrors/flipside', '36 Soundscapes' and 'Argonauts'. A 'Lighthouse Placard Mix' was aired as live stream at the 'Havenland Lighthouse Placard'
Sirens · [part of the Train Sonor project] [may 2007] "compendium of shreds"
mirrors/flipside
· for AC, for AS [SkM025]
TrainSonor · possible simultaneity with Argonauts part XVII (composition "essay one", 2006-07) and/or Six Instruments (1985-86)
TrainSonor - Piano (January 22, 2008)
Music for Merce Cunningham I · for double bass (bowed and plucked) and live-tape with pre-recorded seep, dropping water sounds, marker (felt tip pen) sounds, and camera release sounds
sound assemblage · overlapping compositions by David Braden, Doyle Dean, Ralph Lichtensteiger, Lothar Reitz and Philip Schuessler
A Taste for the Secret · collaboration with George Henry Koehler
UglybeautycageArchiveOne · collaboration with George Henry Koehler
Sonorite Sans Memoire I · set of compositions 'spatial sensation' (in terms of landscape, paysage musicaux) [Cash On The Nail Music]

FOR James Mulcro Drew · Composer [1929-2010]
The Music of James M. Drew · The Music of James M. Drew · Montage by Ralph Lichtensteiger [37:44]

Manhattan Box [2004] · tell-a-mouse [dot] be [sacrifice] [Tamara Laï]

'Train Sonor - Piano' by Ralph Lichtensteiger, review by Jo-Anne Green, Networked Music Review, 2008 · TrainSonor · PDF download [1 MB]

Two Places for Piano and electronics [2000-2005] · Part I and Part II (for Matthew Rogalsky) Sonoloco review by Ingvar Loco Nordin, 2005 · download [408 KB]

Music for Video [DVD], Dancing Ears · Formless · Jozan · Sudden Shower [...] Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Review, Editor: Eileen Tabios), Jesse Glass reviews 4 Videos by RLi, 2005

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ARCHIVE · in progress... unheard music archive berlin [umab] · open the project page

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