News/Dates
SEP 4-7, 2024
Metric Displacement, installation by Annie Aries / Brian House / Marcel Zaes on view at Musikfestival Bern, Switzerland
News Archive & Past
JUL 12, 2024
Marcel Zaes — DJ Set Electro/Historic/Techno at VinylHouse, Shenzhen
With Ma Jia as supporting act
Friday, July 12, 2024, 11pm - 2am
JUL 5, 2024
DeSound Performance Festival: Marcel Zaes presents new audio-visual live performance “NOSHORE,” alongside four electronic musicians presenting their sets: Wang Wenwei, Chen Mulian, Hui AoShan, Zen Lu.
Bao’an Stadium, DeSound Stage, Gate 4, Bao’an District, Shenzhen City
19:30 panel talk with artists
20:30 performance start
APR 27 - May 19, 2024
“A Grain Of” - At Shenzhen Design Week
Designing for Techno-Natural Futures: Rendering Shenzhen’s Urban Materialities from Inside a “Grain”
By Enza Migliore and Marcel Zaes Sagesser
Team members: Yiyuan Bai, Zhaorui Liu, Zhonghui Tang, Yaohan Zhang, Bo Dong, Peihua Huang, Yujing Ma, Zichun Xia, Zhiyi Zhang, and Simeng Wang
APR 27 - May 6, 2024
“In the Plains of Otherlands”
at Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Digital Design Exhibition
On view at Shenzhen Art Museum
Video, with sound
Creative research project on urban perception through media
Project by Marcel Zaes, with Xiayu Lin, Sylvia Gyuwon Lee, Irene Gu, Yujing Ma, and Simeng Wang
MAR 31, 2024
Media Performance “Mirrors of Otherlands” shown at Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, within the series “Digi Muse.” Marcel Zaes presents a performance including the workshop Media Art Exploration & Creation Workshop in Image and Sound.
Sunday, Mar 31, 2024
2-4pm
Shanghai
With Xiaoyu Lin (bass flute), Sylvia Lee (AIGC, production assistance), and Irene Gu (production assistance)
DEC 23, 2023
Album Review of “Aries Zaes - Dust” by Phosphor Kultur (Switzerland)
DEC 10, 2023
Aries Zaes play record release concert at the Prefermusic Festival
Zoobar, Bern, Switzerland
Sunday afternoon, starting at 16:00
Music performance: Annie Aries
Visuals: Jonas Probst
DEC 6, 2023
Kukuruz Quartet presents “The Failed Pianist,” a multidisciplinary performance for five pianists, at the Música Estranha Festival, São Paulo / Brazil
With music by Manuel Pessôa de Lima, Clara Allison, Julius Eastman and Marcel Zaes
Kukuruz Quartet: Philip Bartels, piano. Duri Collenberg, piano. Simone Keller, piano. Lukas Rickli, piano
Additional pianist, electronics player, and script provider: Manuel Pessôa de Lima
DEC 1, 2023
Record ‘DUST’ by Aries Zaes published on Preferfmusic
Mixing & Mastering: Ramon Bischoff, nomar.ch
Artwork: Sandra Schmid, schmiderei.com
Liner notes: Eli Backer
Visuals: Jonas Probst
Listen: many international online services, as well as Bandcamp
OCT 21, 2023 - ONGOING
New media art installation “High Sections / Low Leaps”
by Marcel Zaes + Minghim Tong + Zhen Wu + Sylvia Lee
on view at the 1st SeeD Pilot Project Exhibition,
CIC Creative Commune, Longgang, Shenzhen.
Opening ceremony: Saturday, Oct 21, 2:00pm
OCT 20, 2023
Aries Zaes “DEBRIS & DUST” Tour, live performance at OIL, Shenzhen
Annie Aries + Marcel Zaes, turntables, live synthesizers
featuring. Lu Zen (opening act)
OCT 13, 2023
Aries Zaes “DEBRIS & DUST” Tour, live performance at OIL, Shenzhen
Annie Aries + Marcel Zaes, turntables, live synthesizers
OCT 1, 2023
New media art piece “Dirty Mediations” to premiere at the Montreux Jazz Festival China, Shanghai/Kunshan
Performed by Xiaoyu Lin, bass flute
Sunday, Oct 1, 2023, 9pm
SEP 26, 2023
Panelist at “Art x Science Dialogues: Transcending Waves: Sound, Technology, and Creativity” co-organized by Duke Kunshan and Swissnex Shanghai, where he’ll be talking about his new media project that he’s currently working on, “Dirty Mediations.”
Online and at Duke Kunshan, Tuesday Sep 26, 6:30-8:00pm https://swissnex.org/china/event/art-x-science-dialogues-transcending-waves-sound-technology-and-creativity/
JUL 30, 2023
Artist Talk: Long Pan, Enza Migliore, Marcel Zaes Sagesser
“Metal and Urban Grain: Flux under Micro-scaled World View”
CAC Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Sunday, Jul 30, 2:00 - 3:30pm Shanghai time
(8:00 - 9:30am Central European Time)
online + in-person
JUL 28, 2023
Binghuang Xu & Marcel Zaes Sagesser present paper “Listening Through Technology: An Interactive Sound Walk for a Suburb in Shenzhen” at the HCI International conference, Copenhagen
Link to paper at Springer Publishing
JUL 16-18, 2023
Artwork presentation “Mediating Place as Staging Time in ‘Setting:’ Sonic Interactive Mobile Technology as an Art Performance” in the arts exhibition of DIS’23 Conference (Designing Interactive Systems), Pittsburgh PA, USA
https://dis.acm.org/2023/
FEB 28, 2023
Enza Migliore, Hanyu Qu & Marcel Zaes: “A Grain of” art installation
on display at TEI’23 conference for Tangible Embedded Interaction, Warsaw, Poland
FEB 3, 2023
Record Release: “Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving”
A Bay Area Pilot project of the Amercian Composers Forum (ACF) in collaboration with Innova Recordings; all works performed by Kukuruz Quartet (Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, Simone Keller, Lukas Rickli); with music by Manuel Pessôa De Lima, Hassan Estakhrian, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Clara Allison, Julie Herndon, and Marcel Zaes
More at: innova.mu
DEC 22, 2022 - MAR 21, 2023
New Installation “In Idle Mode (Noise)” on display at the exhibition “The Taste of Flow: Domestication Of Pond and Sucrose” at the Food Museum of Shunde (Shunde District of Foshan, Guangdong Province, China), in collaboration with Dakan Art Institute and OCT; with new works by 4 artists
Opening hours: 10:00-21:30
Address of museum: F1, Bldg 1, Joy Square, No. 3, Fengsha Joy Avenue, Daliang Street, Shunde District, Foshan
Date and time for closing ceremony will be announced
DEC 29, 2022
SUSTech School of Design presents four projects at the UABB Shenzhen / Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, among which is “Unwalking” – a series of sound walks by Marcel Zaes, Binghuang Xu, and 12 students from the School of Design: Chenghao Zhang, Tong Xu, Renchao Xue, Hexin Deng, Yue Sheng, Yijing Zhang, Xian Li, Chengwei Hu, Zilu Tang, Siyuan Yan, Hanxi Jiang, Yingxin Xu
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Thursday, Dec 29, 2022, 3-5pm
NOV 19-30, 2022
Video installation “In the Plains...” at the exhibition 想象/图像/幻象Imag(in)e Fantasy at the Shanghai Chun Art Museum, hosted by the Shanghai Jiaotong University's Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI)
Nov 19 - 30, 2022
Opening ceremony on Nov 19, 2:00pm
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Accompanying opening symposium to include Marcel Zaes as one of eight panelists, Nov 19, 2:30pm at Shanghai Chun Art Museum
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OCT 22, 2022
Sae Hashimoto at The Stone Residency:
Yarn/Wire premieres Marcel Zaes’ Parallel Prints
Watch teaser
World premiere
Zaes’ most recent album “Parallel Prints” was recently released by Editions Verde (Brooklyn)
Accompanying film by Eli Backer
October 22, 2022, 8:30 PM
New York City
JUN 20-26, 2022
Aries/House/Zaes: Metric Displacement (installation, 2021-2022)
at New York City Electroacoustic Festival NYCEMF
nycemf.org
JUN 23, 2022
Meghna Bhardwaj: Yarning
with videographic works by Alecia Neo and a new sound piece by Marcel Zaes
Premiere at Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, national performing arts centre
Singapore
JUN 10, 2022
Zaes: Pluse Geometries (fixed media piece)
Sound and Music Computing SMC 2022, Saint-Etienne, France
Program:
Streaming link
MAY 12, 2022
Marcel Zaes: Pulsations
at NoiseFloor 2022, Staffordshire University, UK
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 18:30 - 19:45 British Summer Time
Link to program
APR 14, 2022
Marcel Zaes: Texture A
ICMA Music Showcase :: Asia
http://icma.soundlab.scm.cityu.edu.hk/
re-watch on YouTube
APR 8, 2022
Research/Artist Talk “Composing Time: The Sonic Materiality of Grids, Deviations and Envelopes”
Sonorities Festival, Belfast UK
2:30 - 4:30pm UK time
APR 6-10, 2022
Cyrill Lim & Marcel Zaes: A Land Unknown
Installation
Sonorities Festival, Belfast UK
APR 6-10, 2022
Robert Black & Marcel Zaes: Moments of Doubt
Multichannel work for 5 double basses and electronics
Sonorities Festival, Belfast UK
MAR 25, 2022
Kukuruz Quartet: Breathing — Remembering — Dissolving
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
With new works by Clara Allison, Seán ó Dálaigh, Hassan Estakhrian, Julie Herndon, Manuel Pessoa de Lima, and Marcel Zaes
Friday, Mar 25, 7:30 - 8:30pm
MAR 8, 2022
Album Parallel Prints selected for The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp: February 2022 by Peter Margasak
Yarn/Wire’s world premiere of “Parallel Prints” at Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA.
Show is cancelled because of Covid-19
JAN 7, 2022
Editions Verde to publish “Parallel Prints”
Record by Marcel Zaes and Yarn/Wire
With artwork/video by Eli Backer
Editions Verde
Listen/purchase on Bandcamp
Project description
DEC 10, 2021
Cathy van Eck features Zaes’ ‘Setting #26’ in the blog ‘Megaphone Music I.’
NOV 9-12, 2021
Aries/House/Zaes: Metric Displacement (installation, 2020) is part of the 27th Geneva International Film Festival’s “Geneva Digital Market” platform event, alongside nine other immersive digital media projects by up-and-coming artists and researchers
https://2021.giff.ch/en/film/metric-displacement/
JUL 31 - AUG 15, 2021
New work, Setting #28, on view at “Transformationen”
group show, Cohaus Kloster Schlehdorf GmbH
curated by Anna Schölß in cooperation with the “Kunstfabrik” by Rita de Muynck and Ulrike Rose, “kulturräume gestalten”
In Schlehdorf (Bavaria), Germany
more details
JUL 27, 2021
New paper, “#otherbeats: A Hypermediated Playback System in Web Audio“
presented at the International Computer Music Conference ICMC 2021 at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago/Chile (online)
Tuesday July 27, 2:40 PM EDT
Attend here: http://icmc2021.org/
JUL 2, 2021
Moments of Doubt – live streamed premiere with Robert Black on Bang On A Can Live Online
https://live.bangonacan.org/black/
Quiet. Still. Beautiful. Gentle. Calm. Hypnotic. Fascinating. This month, First Fridays with Robert Black immerses you in the simple yet complex sound world of Marcel Zaes with his Moments of Doubt. Hear the tender tones of 5 double basses (4 recorded, 1 live) rhythmically rub against each other to deliver you into a state of suspended animation where time stops, hierarchies melt, and transformation is possible.
JUL 21-27, 2021
A Land Unknown by Cyrill Lim and Marcel Zaes
Presented at NYCEMF 2021 Festival (online installation)
View piece at https://nycemf.org/
Or follow the direct link: https://nycemf.alandunknown.net
JUN 17/18, 2021
#otherbeats by Marcel Zaes
Prestented by Eric Parren in the ‘live music’ program at
NIME 2021 conference, NYU Shanghai (online)
Rewatch live streamed concert at:
http://nime2021.org/program/#/music/178 (starting at 18:30)
or directly on YouTube
JUN 3, 2021
Participation and presentation of “Texture D”
at the composers’ panel of the annual Canadian University Music Society MusCan congress, University of Alberta, Edmonton (online)
June 3, 3:10pm - 4:20pm North American Mountain Time
MAY 19, 2021
Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving is among the selected “Bay Area Pilot Projects” 2021 by the American Composers Forum (ACF) and Innova Recordings
The project includes the Kukuruz Quartet (Simone Keller, Philip Bartels, Duri Collenberg, and Lukas Rickli) and composers Julie Herndon, Marcel Zaes, Manuel Pessôa de Lima, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Clara Allison, and Hassan Estakhrian
Media announcement
MAY 27, 2021
Swissnex San Francisco presents Beyond 2020: A (Post-) Pandemic Festival with the eight selected artists and artist collectives.
“Metric Displacement” by Annie Aries, Brian House and Marcel Zaes will present about their collaboration on May 27 at 12pm US Pacific Time. More information at Swissnex
APR 30, 2021
Traces of Noise
Participatory audio walk for SloMoCo 2021
Friday Apr 30, 1:30pm EDT
Details and registration at slomoco.surf
APR 23, 2021
Paper presentation at SEAMUS Virtual National Conference 2021: ‘From Listening to Playing – Browser-Based Sound-Making in #otherbeats’ (online)
Friday Apr 23, 9:30 - 11:30am EDT
seamusonline.org
APR 2, 2021
Passive Method
Talea Ensemble to premiere new piece ‘Passive Method’ alongside works by Amber Vistein, Inga Chinilina, Jacob Sokolov-Gonzalez, and Kristina Warren in an online concert at Brown University, 7 PM EDT
Rewatch on YouTube
APR 2+3, 2021
Displacements
Annie Aries + Brian House + Marcel Zaes
Concert at Gray Area, San Francisco (online)
Apr 2, 7pm San Francisco
Apr 3, 10am San Francisco (rebroadcast)
At Gray Area San Francisco (online)
MAR 26 - APR 4, 2021
Metric Displacement
Artists Annie Aries, Brian House, and Marcel Zaes present their sound installation as part of the Beyond 2020: A (Post-) Pandemic Practice series, produced by Swissnex San Francisco
Opening Event on Mar 26, 12pm San Francisco
Rewatch on Youtube.
Exhibition free and open to the public from Mar 26 - Apr 4, 2021.
FEB 11, 2021
Zaes: “#otherbeats: Resisting the Grid — Performing Asynchrony”
Talk & demo at IRCAM Forum Workshops, Montreal
2pm - 3pm EST
Link to program
JAN 24, 2021
“Sonic Undoing”
Sonic Undoing: A collaborative audio broadcast by the Music and Multimedia Composition graduate student community, a refraction of conversation and work, reworked and represented in a digital space for the out-of-doors. This will be a live-streamed event. Listening to the broadcast outdoors on a mobile device with headphones highly recommended.
Archival stable link: https://vimeo.com/504628969
Sun Jan 24, 1-2 PM, US Eastern time
JAN 23, 2021
Verdant Vibes presents premiere of Zaes’ “Texture C”
in their “Future Forward” online concert, streaming out of Providence, RI
alongside new works by Sally Duke and Iman Habibi
Rewatch on Youtube
JAN 20-22, 2021
Zaes: “Other Beats for 2020”
Presentation at the “Aesthetic Relations” conference at the New Carlsberg Foundation research center Art as Forum at the University of Copenhagen
DEC 17, 2020
Zaes: “#otherbeats: Deviant and resistant time grids of the pandemic”
Presentation at “Sounds of the Pandemic” conference
at Università di Firenze, Dipartimento SAGAS
Tempo Reale, Centro di Ricerca Produzione e Didattica Musicale
Archival stable link: https://youtu.be/ZQtVCXMAoko
4pm Central European Time, Zoom Webinar
NOV 17/18, 2020
Williams College (Massachusetts, US) in collaboration with Shiv Nadar University (Delhi, India), present “Work in Collaboration” by students.The project was conceived between Shanti Pillai, Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Theatre at Williams, and Meghna Bhardwaj, Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Art and Performing Art at Shiv Nadar. Also involved in this collaboration are Amy Holzapfel, Prof. of Theatre at Williams, and Marcel Zaes, a Ph.D. candidate in Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University. more
NOV 8, 2020
NowNet Arts Conference 2020 (virtual conference)
Network Arts and Social Distance: Capacities and Innovations
Presenting on the arts project “#otherbeats”
Sunday, November 8, 3.00-3.30 PM EST
Details on the conference website
OCT 2020
Zaes: “The Material Politics of Techno Punk” essay published on Norient.
OCT 23, 2020
Zaes: “When Noise is Temporal: Drum Machine Histories Between Failure & Gain” talk at “Residual Noise” conference, Brown University,
organized and curated by Ed Osborn
1:00 - 2:15 PM, Zoom webinar
OCT 14, 2020
Zaes: “#otherbeats”
at 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Conference (virtual conference)
Wed Oct 14, 2020
First virtual concert at 12:30pm (New York time)
Second virtual concert the same evening at 1am (technically 10/15)https://program.ismir2020.net/music_388.html
NOV 2020
Essay “Space and Place: Sonic Thoughts, Tensions, and Trajectories” by Gautam Pemmaraju, on Swami/Zaes’ “The Long and Short of It,” published by Serendipity Arts
SEP 16, 2020
Guest speaker in Marianthi Papalexandri Alexandri’s seminar
“MUSIC 7420 : Composing Networks” at Cornell University, presenting on the arts piece “#otherbeats”
SEP 12, 2020
Zaes: “#otherbeats”
Web installation piece and live streamed performance
Dissertation piece in Music & Multimedia Composition
Co-hosted by the Brown Arts Initiative and the Department of Music, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
Following the event, #otherbeats will be available for individual exploration at: otherbeats.net
FALL 2020
Zaes: #otherbeats is online
Explore the web-based arts piece at otherbeats.net
SUMMER/FALL 2020
CT::SWaM Broadband Echos Interview with Robert Black & Marcel Zaes about their collaborative piece, Moments of Doubt (2020)
Listen to the episode at: https://ckweb.gov.co/ctswam/
JUL 16-17 2020
Livestream performance of “#otherbeats” (Draft #1)
at Network Music Festival NMF2020 (UK)
https://networkmusicfestival.org/
Performace scheduled for:
Thursday, July 16th, 10pm US/EST
Friday, July 17th, 3am UK/BST
JUN 4/7/10/11 2020
Music theater to be premiered at Sogar Theater, Zürich/SWITZ.
By Ox & Öl, Simone Keller & Philip Bartels
Text by Anna Papst, music by Marcel Zaes, with Agnes Lampkin, Jonas Gygax, Marc Unternährer, Simone Keller and others TBA
MAY 30, 2020
T H E A L L S T A R S D I S T A N C E E N S E M B L E performs Toshi Ichiyanagi “DISTANCE,” 1961
Live Zoom performance with Jennifer Bornhauser, Tobias Lanz, Miranda Luiz, Valerian Maly, Anuk Schmelcher, Olivia Schneider, Jeanne Spaeter, Ilmārs Šterns, Marcel Zaes
A distance collaboration between Bern University of the Arts, BA Sound Arts, MA Contemporary Arts Practice and the Department of Music, Brown University, Providence (Rhode Island), US
APR 22-25, 2020
Lim+Zaes: “A Land Unknown”
Zaes: “Moments of Doubt”
Zaes: lecture on “Resisting the Grid”
more info at sonorities.net
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
APR 11, 2020
at Brown University, Martinos Auditorium at Granoff Center
Providence, RI
8:00 PM
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
APR 2-5, 2020
[Postponed due to Covid-19]
MAR 13, 2020
organized/curated by Ed Osborn
Brown University & RISD Rhode Island School of Design
[Cancelled due to Covid-19]
FEB 29, 2020
Zaes: “Setting #26,” living installation
at CHIMEFest 2020: CIRCULATIONS: Symposium on Live Audio Feedback in Art at Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
Performed by Alejandro T. Acierto, Darlene Castro, Oliver Hickman, Stephan Moore, Olivia Valentine, Cathy van Eck, and Viola Yip
FEB 17, 2020
Zaes: “Moments of Doubt,” Premiere
Sound installation with double bass
With Robert Black, double bass
at CT::SWAM: at Fridman Gallery, 8pm, New York City
Event on Facebook
FEB 7, 2020
Zaes: lecture-performance “Music, Time, Place and Space”
with performance of “Pulsations” (short version)
at Laser Boston
Swissnex, Cambridge, MA, 6 PM
JAN 27 - FEB 3, 2020
Lim/Zaes: “A Land Unknown”
installation
on display at Granoff Center - Studio 1
Brown University, Providence, RI
Hours: Mon thru Sun, 12–6 PM
Reception: Wed Jan 29, 5–7 PM
JAN 11/12, 2020
Zaes: (…) Ebene eines fremden Landes. /
(…) In the Plains of a Foreign Land.
Performative installation with Ensemble ö!
JAN 2020
Aries Zaes: “Debris” debut album out
on Prefermusic
Order/stream album here
JAN 10, 2020
Aries Zaes: “Debris” album release show
Support: LVKK
Dampfzentrale, Bern/SWITZ.
DEC 18/19, 2019
Swami+Zaes: “The Long and Short of It”
Sound and movement installation at
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa/INDIA
NOV 17, 2019
Lecture/Recital “Resisting the Grid – Performing Asynchrony”
at conference “Rhythm in Music since 1900” at University of Colorado Boulder
NOV 15, 2019
Zaes: Setting #24, performed SNU students and directed by Meghna Bhardwaj
Shiv Nadar University, Dadri, Uttar Pradesh/INDIA
NOV 12, 2019
Lee Gilboa, Ashley Frith, Marc Von David and Friends, Marcel Zaes
9:00 PM Live at AS220, Providence, RI
[event on Facebook]
NOV 8, 2019
Zaes: “The December Sketch” - solo electronics
presented alongside Lee Gilboa, Alexander Dupuis, Martim Galvão, Amber Vistein & Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez at Ideal Hazards, Brown University, Department of Music, Grant Recital Hall
OCT 5+6, 2019
Mandeep Raikhy: Anatomy of Belief with sound by Zaes
Odd Bird Theatre, New Delhi/IND
JUN 29, 2019
Aries Zaes: live set @2922 tage »afip!« Frankfurt
Akademie für interdisziplinäre Prozesse, Offenbach, Germany
JUN 21, 2019
Aries Zaes: live set @Fête de la Musique Lausanne
La Datcha, Lausanne, Switzerland
JUN 14, 2019
Aries Zaes: live set @Frauenstreiktag Solothurn After Party
Kreuzsaal, Solothurn, Switzerland
JUN 13, 2019
Aries Zaes: live set @basement beats Basel by PhotoBasel
Trio (basement) Klingentalstrasse 1, Basel, Switzerland
JUN 8, 2019
Zaes: Setting #21—#23
With Simone Keller, Philip Bartels, Miranda Moss, Moritz Müllenbach, Lukas Rickli, in collaboration with Annelie J. Graf and Philipp Cron
Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, Zürich, Switzerland
APR 27, 2019
Music of Julius Eastman and Marcel Zaes
Kukuruz Quartet
BoCA | Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisboa
BoCA Bienal event page
APR 20, 2019
Din//Void, Aries Zaes, Ryan Campos, Berserk
Watermyn Co-op, Providence, RI, United States
Mar 29, 2019
Zaes: Stillness in Disrepair
Glass Farm Ensemble New York
Symphony Space/Leonard Nimoy Thalia, New York City
Eileen Mack, Anthony Di Bartolo, Yvonne Troxler
Mar 7, 2019
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
Gallery Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai/IND
Feb 20, 2019
Music of Cage, Eastman, Zaes
Kukuruz Quartet
The Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York City
Feb 15, 2019
Zaes: A Forgotten State (premiere)
Kukuruz Quartet
Brown University, Providence/USA
Feb 5, 2019
Zaes: Texture B (premiere)
Ensemble Chartreuse
Brown University, Providence/USA
Feb 3, 2019
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, Mumbai/IND
DEC 16, 2018
Lim+Zaes: pochen
IGNM soirée ‘Art of Sound,’ Zurich/CH
8:30 PM Walcheturm
Dec 4+5, 2018
Mandeep Raikhy: the extremities of a surface are lines
dance piece, music by Yasuhiro Morinaga & Marcel Zaes
13 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi/IND
NOV 25, 2018
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
The Courtyard, Bangalore/IND
NOV 24, 2018
Kukuruz Quartet plays the music of Mary Jane Leach, Julia Amanda Perry, Simone Keller, Sarah Ayotomiwa Pitan, and Marcel Zaes.
HOMUNCULUS / unerhört! Festival 2018, Zurich/CH
NOV 18, 2018
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
Conflictorium, Ahmedabad/IND
NOV 16, 2018
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
Ears on Mumbai, Mumbai/IND
NOV 9, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations
Bach-Marathon, Providence RI/USA
SEP 27, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations
Aviary, Jamaica Plain MA/USA
SEP 15, 2018
Zaes: Stillness in Disrepair
Klangbasel, Basel/CH
SEP 10, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
République Géniale, Kunstmuseum, Berne/CH
SEP 7, 2018
Zaes: A Practical Black-and-White
Musikfestival, Dampfzentrale, Berne/CH
SEP 6, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
HEK Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel/CH
SEP 5, 2018
Zaes: Texture A
Musikfestival, Dampfzentrale, Berne/CH
SEP 1, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations / Aries Zaes
Container Wunderkammer Glattpark, Zurich/CH
AUG 13, 2018
Zaes: Setting #7
Amasoong, Imphal/IND
JUL 11, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations
Oddbird, New Delhi/IND
JUN 29, 2018
Poorna Swami + Marcel Zaes: The Long and Short of It
1Shanthiroad, Bangalore/IND
JUN 28, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations
Swissnex India, Bangalore/IND
APR 27, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations
Sutton Street, Providence/USA
Apr 5, 2018
Zaes+Yarn/Wire: Study for four pianists and one piano
Brown University, Providence/USA
MAR 21, 2018
Bhardwaj/Zaes: Edges
Trilogyat March Dance, Chennai/IND
FEB 11, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
Center For New Music, San Francisco/USA
FEB 4, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
Swissnex, Boston/USA
FEB 2, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
Brown University, Providence/USA
FEB 11, 2018
Zaes: Pulsations [Bitumen]
Center For New Music, San Francisco/USA
JAN 11, 2018
Bhardwaj/Zaes: Edges
Dance Round Table Taipei/TAIWAN
DEC 15, 2017
Swami+Zaes: Cartography
Shoonya Centre, Bangalore/IND
DEC 7, 2017
Zaes: Pulsations
Brown University, Providence/USA
SEP 24, 2017
Zaes: Stillness in Disrepair
Swiss Chamber Music Festival, Adelboden/CH
JUL 22, 2017
Koós+Zaes: 2 5 1 8 4 11 5 / 36
Elnök Utcai Müterem, Budapest/HUN
JUL 21, 2017
Schölß+Zaes: Dissect/Shelter
Oikos Haus, Schlehdorf/GER
JUN 9, 2017
Manzoni/Zaes/Classicus Quartet: Sjö
Central European University, Budapest/HUN
JUN 8, 2017
Manzoni/Zaes/Sörés: Impro Set
Kék Ló, Budapest/HUN
MAY 12, 2017
Zaes: Setting #6
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence/USA
MAY 6, 2017
Zaes: Setting #4
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence/USA
MAY 6, 2017
Zaes: Pulse Geometries MOD#4
Brown University, Providence/USA
APR 8, 2017
Zaes: Blau & Rauschbereit
Abhyas Somatics Lab, New Delhi/IND
APR 5, 2017
Zaes: Setting #5
Brown University, Providence/USA
MAR 8, 2017
Zaes: Pulse Geometries MOD#4
Brown University, Providence/USA
FEB 24, 2017
Zaes+Inernational Contemporary Ensemble: Empty Asphalt Junctions
Brown University, Providence/USA
FEB 10, 2017
Zaes+Momenta Quartet: Setting #4
Brown University, Providence/USA
FEB 7, 2017
Bhardwaj+Zaes: Edges
Attakkalari Biennial, Bangalore/IND
DEC 8, 2016
Zaes: Noise/Sine
Brown University, Providence/USA
DEC 1, 2016
Zaes: Setting #3
Bone Festival for Performance Arts, Berne/CH
NOV 25, 2016
Manzoni/Zaes/Classicus Quartet: Sjö
Teatro Sociale, Bellinzona/CH
OCT/NOV, 2016
Whigham+Zaes: Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
Stadttheater, Berne/CH
NOV 10, 2016
Zaes: Pulse Geometries MOD#3 + Isomorph
Swissnex, Boston/USA
SEP 30, 2016
Zaes+Glasl: Zwischen Raum
Benediktinerstift, Sankt Lambrecht/A
SEP 22, 2016
Ox+Öl/Bartels/Zaes: Rindfleisch...
Architekturforum, Zurich/CH
SEP 10, 2016
Zaes: Rasterbild
Music School Worb, Berne/CH
JUL 7-15, 2016
Lim+Zaes: Pochen, Scherbeln, (dis)similar
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
JUN 30-JUL 8, 2016
Lim+Zaes: Pochen, Scherbeln, (dis)similar
Gallery Lage Egal, Berlin/GER
MAY 21, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong/HK
MAY 19, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
ISEA2016 Conference, Hong Kong/HK
MAY 18, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Orange Peel, Hong Kong/HK
APR 23, 2016
Manzoni/Zaes/Classicus Quartet: Sjö, Isomorph
Druckereihalle, Basel/CH
APR 22, 2016
Manzoni/Zaes/Classicus Quartet: Sjö, Isomorph
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
APR 21, 2016
Manzoni/Zaes/Classicus Quartet: Sjö, Isomorph
Gallery Stephan Witschi, Zurich/CH
MAR-JUN, 2016
Whigham+Zaes: Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
Stadttheater, Berne/CH
MAR 13, 2016
Zaes: Blau & Rauschbereit
Burgbachkeller, Zug/CH
FEB 6, 2016
Zaes: Blau & Rauschbereit
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich/CH
FEB 5, 2016
Zaes: Blau & Rauschbereit
Aula PROGR, Berne/CH
FEB 4, 2016
Zaes: Blau & Rauschbereit
Kaskadenkondensator, Basel/CH
FEB 2, 2016
Zaes: Isomorph
Central European University, Budapest/HUN
JAN 19, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Echoraum, Vienna/AT
JAN 15, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes+Sörés: Sjö
Trafó, Budapest/HUN
JAN 14, 2016
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Central European University, Budapest/HUN
DEC 28, 2015
Sörés+Zaes: Impro Set
Auróra, Budapest/HUN
DEC 27, 2015
Sörés+Zaes: Interview featured on Tilos Radio, Budapest/HUN
DEC 10, 2015
Sáile+Zaes: Release (movie)
Alternative Video/Film Festival, Belgrade/RS
NOV 28, 2015
Sáile+Zaes: Release (movie)
Cité Universitaire, Paris/FRA
OCT 31, 2015
Zaes: Setting #1 + #2
Residency 108, Bard College, Hudson Valley/USA
OCT 15, 2015
Zaes: View From The Top, performed by snim Vienna
Das kleine Symposion, Echoraum, Vienna/AT
SEP 19, 2015
Zaes: Zwischen Raum
Festival Zither am Berg, Wendelstein/GER
SEP 18/19/20, 2015
Ox+Öl/Bartels/Zaes: Dinge, die man hin und...
Architekturforum, Zurich/CH
AUG 30, 2015
Zaes: Pulse Geometries MOD#1
Festival Les Digitales, Neuchâtel/CH
JUL 2, 2015
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Auróra, Budapest/HUN
JUN 12-28, 2015
Schölß+Zaes: Hinterland
Gallery Atelier Worb, Berne/CH
MAY 20, 2015
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Officine Caos, Turin/ITA
APR 25, 2015
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Braui Kleintheater Worb, Berne/CH
JAN 24, 2015
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Quiet Cue, Berlin/GER
DEC 11, 2014
Zaes: Similar
IGNM Kornhausforum, Berne/CH
SEP 28 - NOV 2, 2014
Zaes: Sloping Site + Record of a Minute
Jetzt Kunst Marzili Swiss Sculpture Show, Berne/CH
OCT 24, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes+Hasler+Benetti: Sjö
Safe Mitte, Basel/CH
OCT 19, 2014
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 19, 2014
Zaes: Cut Low From Above
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 18, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 17, 2014
Zaes: Prairie Urbaine
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 17, 2014
Zaes+Dida: Lel Samar Project, Grain De Ciel
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 16, 2014
Zaes: Wüsten
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
OCT 12, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Gwenstival, Chiasso/CH
OCT 11, 2014
Meierhans+Zaes: Die Landschaft zerfetzt...
Museo d’Arte di Mendrisio/CH
SEP 6, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Sonarraum U64, Berne/CH
SEP 5, 2014
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
PROGR, Bern/CH
AUG 23, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Festival Les Digitales, Lugano/CH
AUG 7, 2014
Manzoni+Zaes: Sjö
Strade del Cinema, Aosta/ITA
JUL 17 - SEP 28, 2014
Schölß+Zaes: Lack of Hinterlands
Ostrale, Dresden/GER
JUL 5, 2014
Zaes: (dis)similar
Autocenter, Berlin/GER
JUN 9, 2014
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
F.I.M.U. Festival, Belfort/FRA
MAY 24, 2014
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
CRSA Festival, Lausanne/CH
MAY 24, 2014
Zaes: Poussières Somatiques
CRSA Festival, Lausanne/CH
APR 24, 2014
Zaes: Electro Set
Club d’Essai, Dampfzentrale, Berne/CH
APR 18, 2014
Zaes: Zurück (in Rom)
Teorbo: Francesca Bennetti
Predigerkirche, Zurich/CH
APR 12, 2014
Sas+Zaes: La Maison Pense Au Présent
Gallery z00, Lausanne/CH
JAN 31, 2014
Schölß+Zaes: Lack of Hinterlands
Stadtgalerie, Berne/CH
DEC 18, 2013
Schölß+Zaes: Ten Times
Schauraum, Olten/CH
DEC 15, 2013
Zaes/Hackel/Arancio: Mode 27
PROGR, Berne/CH
DEC 7, 2013
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
NOV 15, 2013
Sas+Zaes: Retour à l’Envoyeur
Jeune Création, Centre 104, Paris/FRA
OCT 11, 2013
Meierhans+Zaes: Die Landschaft zerfetzt...
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
SEP 19/20/21, 2013
Adam+Schölß+Zaes: Wüsten
Tojo Theater, Berne/CH
SEP 6, 2013
Meierhans+Zaes: Die Landschaft zerfetzt...
Musikfestival, Berne/CH
AUG 31, 2013
Zaes/Hackel/Arancio: Mode 27
Festival Les Digitales, Lugano/CH
AUG 17, 2013
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Festival Les Digitales, Lausanne/CH
JUL 10, 2013
Adam+Schölß+Zaes: Wüsten
Kunstarkaden, Munich/GER
JUN 1-2, 2013
Adam+Schölß+Zaes: Wüsten
Festival Out Now, Schwankhalle, Bremen/GER
APR 6, 2013
Zaes: Ciel de Poussière
Church, Les Diablerets/CH
FEB 27-MAR 3, 2013
Furrer+Lenherr+Zaes: Die Wand
Theater am Gleis, Winterthur/CH
JAN 24-25, 2013
Adam+Schölß+Zaes: Wüsten
Schwere Reiter, Munich/GER
JAN 12, 2013
Zaes: Southbound
Kirche Rosenberg, Winterthur/CH
JAN 9, 2013
Zaes: Prairie Urbaine
Sabrina Merz, double bass
Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich/CH
DEC 14, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Grain De Ciel
100Copies Music, Cairo/EGYPT
DEC 7, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Grain De Ciel
Darb 1718, Cairo/EGYPT
DEC 1, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Grain De Ciel
TEDx, Cairo/EGYPT
NOV 6, 2012
Adam+Schölß+Zaes: Wüsten
Darb 1718, Cairo/EGYPT
SEP 24, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Teatro Nuovo Colosseo, Rome/ITA
SEP 22, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Teatro Keiros, Rome/ITA
SEP 14, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
ONO, Berne/CH
SEP 13, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
City Club, Pully/CH
SEP 12, 2012
Dida+Zaes: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Kind Of Jazz, Berne/CH
SEP 9, 2012
Zaes: Nach dem lauten Weltgewühle
Reformierte Kirche Unterstrasse, Zurich/CH
SEP 8, 2012
Zaes: Nach dem lauten Weltgewühle
Sebastianskapelle, Baden/CH
AUG 31, 2012
Zaes: Nach dem lauten Weltgewühle
Kirche Veltheim, Winterthur/CH
Aug 30-31, 2012
Maurer/Rexer/Zaes: Eine Art Alaska
Theater Stadelhofen, Zurich/CH
JUN 29, 2012
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Kernel Festival, Milan/ITA
JUN 21, 2012
Lim+Zaes: Infinite Silent Redundancy
Swiss Institute at Rome, Rome/ITA
JUN 15, 2012
Meierhans+Zaes: Die Landschaft zerfetzt...
Romanian Academy, Rome/ITA
MAY 23-JUN 15, 2012
Zaes+Zloteanu: Clouds With Roots
Romanian Academy, Rome/ITA
MAY 26=27, 2012
Duveen+Zaes: Black Soil / White Silence
Orbital Garden, Berne/SWITZ
MAR 3, 2012
Maurer/Rexer/Zaes: Eine Art Alaska
Schloss Wartegg, Rohrschachberg/SWITZ
FEB 27, 2012
Duveen+Zaes: Black Soil / White Silence
Swiss Institute at Rome, Rome/ITA
FEB 2-3, 2012
Maurer/Rexer/Zaes: Eine Art Alaska
Theater am Gleis, Winterthur/SWITZ
FEB 1, 2012
Portrait on composer Marcel Zaes
DEGEM Web Radio/GER
JAN 27-29, 2012
Maurer/Rexer/Zaes: Eine Art Alaska
Theater Tojo, Berne/SWITZ
DEC 9, 2011
Radio Feature about composer Marcel Zaes
SWR 2/GER
NOV 20, 2011
Zaes: Yellow Neon Letters
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Club Dal Verme, Rome/ITA
OCT 23, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Caveau Oxymore, Cully/CH
OCT 22, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Tonus Music Labor, Berne/CH
OCT 20, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Metallgarten Worb, Berne/CH
OCT 16, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
iCamp, Munich/GER
OCT 15, 2011
Schölß+Zaes: A Sky Covered With Dust
Lange Nacht der Museen, Munich/GER
OCT 10, 2011
Zaes: Prairies
EMU Fest, Rome/ITA
OCT 1, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Orbital Garden, Berne/CH
SEP 26-OCT 2, 2011
Maurer/Rexer/Zaes: Eine Art Alaska
Lokremise, St. Gallen/CH
SEP 11-15, 2011
Dick/Tesche/Zaes: Der Wunsch, Indianer zu werden
Stadttheater, Berne/CH
AUG 30, 2011
Zaes: Prairies
Bienal Música Hoje, Curitiba/BRA
JUN 21, 2011
Zaes+Dida: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Fête de la Musique, Beirut/LIB
JUN 20, 2011
Zaes+Dida: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Electro Mecanique, Beirut/LIB
JUN 12+13, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Festival FIMU, Belfort/FRA
JUN 11+12, 2011
Zaes+Dida: Lel Samar Project, Morceau De Rien
Festival FIMU, Belfort/FRA
JUN 3, 2011
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
Festival Out Now, Bremen/GER
APR 16, 2011
Zaes+Arancio: Bruchstücke von Blau
Tonus Music Labor, Berne/CH
JAN 23, 2011
Zaes+Hasler: Southbound
Kunsthaus, Zug/CH
DEC 27, 2010
Zaes+Dida: Lel Samar Project, Debut
Zico House, Belfort/FRA
DEC 10-12, 2010
Greiner+Zaes: Alenka
Tanzhaus, Zurich/CH
NOV 6, 2010
Zaes: The Last Place (Left)
Katryn Hasler, Florine Juvet, Marcel Zaes
LAB30, Augsburg/GER
SEP 3, 2010
Zaes: Prairies
PROGR, Berne/CH
AUG 21, 2010
Zaes: A Long Moment (of Pleasure)
Duo ChamberBridge
Zinghaus Köniz, Berne/CH
JUN 1, 2010
Zaes+Arancio: Bruchstücke von Blau
Festival Out Now, Schankhalle, Bremen/GER
MAY 16, 2010
Zaes: A Long Moment (of Pleasure)
UC Berkeley/USA
MAY 12+14, 2010
Zaes/Bhend/Bolzli: stutzen/stopfen/strecken
Rote Fabrik, Zurich/CH
MAY 5, 2010
Zaes: A Long Moment (of Pleasure)
San Francisco Voices, San Franciso/USA
APR 29+30, 2010
Zaes/Bhend/Bolzli: stutzen/stopfen/strecken
Grand*Palais, Berne/CH
MAR 19, 2010
Lim/Zaes: Scherbeln
Museumsnacht Berne/CH
DEC 2, 2009
Madsen/Zaes: Was bedrückt dich?
Theater der Künste, Zurich/CH
SEP 24, 2009
Zaes: Prairies
Festival Lausanne Jardins, Lausanne/CH
SEP 19, 2009
Zaes: Southbound
KomponistInnenkolloquium Mitersill/A
AUG 3, 2009
Zaes: Südhaft I-III
DEGEM Web Radio/GER
JUN 13, 2009
Zaes: Südhaft I-III
ZKM Karlsruhe/GER
JUN 4, 2009
Dick/Tesche/Zaes: Vox Humana
Staatstheater Oldenburg/GER
MAY 12, 2009
Zaes: Südhaft I-III
University of the Arts, Berne/CH
APR 18, 2009
Zaes: Südhaft I-III
Weimarer Frühjahrstagen für zeitgenössische Musik, Weimar/GER
JAN 15, 2009
Zaes: Nordhoch
Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich/CH