Annette schmucki (*1968 in zurich, freelance composer since 1995) works with ‘sprache als musik’ (music and language tilt into each other); words are her musical material. she moves against the feasibility and availability of language in the direction of ‘zentrifuge’ (words reduced to their meaning are facilitated by being stretched, frayed, inserted into ever-changing contexts) and ‘sprachheit’ (language that is selfaware and can’t be easily plucked). she studied with cornelius schwehr and mathias spahlinger at hochschule für musik in freiburg.
Annette is part of Welcome in – a musical excursion at Akademie der Künste on Saturday, 31.5.2025.
FACTS
1. laute sind nomaden
2. wörter sind flüchtig
3. klangwanderung
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
language/speech
2. How and when did you get into making music?
when I listened to heintje (boy singer) when I was three years old
3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time?
beatles white album
tom waits sword fish trombone
mathias spahlinger farben der frühe
bon iver 22 / a million
jurg frey continuité, fragilité, résonance
4. What do you associate with Berlin?
community, music, going down, adk
5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
my garden, my kitchen
6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
writing, cooking, gardening
7. What was the last record/music you bought or listen?
joke lanz zungsang
8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
manos tsangaris
9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
‘blättern’ maulwerker, temple allemand, la chaux de fonds 2025
10. How important is technology to your creative process?
it is very important and inspiriring if you not let you being guided
11. What can we expect from your performance at Welcome in – a musical excursion at Akademie der Künste?
I don’t know.
it is an open field, it is vague and I hope it is not guiding you, it is intimate and on the other hand strong, weird, a jungle, it throws you back on yourself, it throws you back to your own perception
