CV | Felix Mayer

Felix Mayer (*1990) is a sound artist and composer based in Braunschweig. He works across sound installation, composition, performance and audio plays, much of it in collaboration with others. In his installations, everyday materials are made to sound. He uses vibration motors and transducers, often in multichannel setups. Kies sets individual stones rubbing against each other with thirty-two motors in a bed of gravel. Eight solenoids make POP CORN jump behind a shop window. Elsewhere, recordings are played back through the objects they were made from and recorded again. Useful Volume plays recordings of packaging material back through a waste bin. Capri Code runs field recordings and recordings of historical gramophones through prepared tin-can telephones made with nylon thread and wire, filtered through their materials. With the writer Marie-Alice Schultz, as Mayer&Schultz, he makes installative audio plays, written for and installed at a particular place. He also makes pieces for performers. integrated flying bridge is for two percussionists, fixed media and video, with a split-screen video score. Multiplayer uses instant messaging for instructions on the fly. Transmit me is a concert installation for trumpet, trombone, two double basses and nineteen tin-can telephones, played as structured improvisation against a stopwatch. He performs on trombone and prepared zither with electronics, mostly in duos and in improvised settings.

2026

Pop corn 24-channel sound installation, ART-POP, group exhibition, Glaserei, Hamburg
untitled light and sound installation, with Anne Posselt, Carlotta Oppermann, Sommernacht am Kaiserdom, Königslutter
Kies II 64-channel sound installation, Rundgang, Tonlabor, HBK Braunschweig
Kies 32-channel sound installation, Schrillflächen, group exhibition, Intraregionale, Hermannshof, Völksen
prepared Zither, concert, with Janis Binder, blurred edges festival, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg
Kein Grund genug Mayer&Schultz, audio play, on air - on site, Institute of sonology, Den Haag
prepared Zither, concert, with Sascha Brosamer, Casa Hasler, Uncool residency, Poschiavo (CH)
untitled (three dots and a dash) Installation, Resonanzen, group exhibition, Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg
Na Escada: Collective Overload exhibition, MOM art space, Hamburg

2025

Integrated Flying Bridge for two percussionists and audio-visual playback, Lübeck Yacht / Kulturfunke, Lübeck
untitled (three dots and a dash) installation, [ˈtyːt], group exhibition, Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hannover
In Fit installation, Radio scapes, POV Gallery, Tempelhoferfeld, Berlin
prepared Zither, concert, Riss No. 1, Immanuelkirche, Hamburg
Brummfelder Game piece, Über die Unschärfe, Westwerk, blurred edges Festival Hamburg, Radio F.S.K. Foyer, Hamburg, Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hannover
Useful Volume (brown) object, group exhibition, xpon art gallery, blurred edges Festival, Hamburg
Na Escada: money bubbles radio soap, hinterconti, blurred edges Festival, Hamburg
Airpop 1 binaural composition, on air - on site, Institute of sonology, Den Haag
Kein Grund genug Mayer&Schultz, audio walk, Hamburg liest die Elbe, Hamburg
Pfützen prepared Zither, spatialization Janis Binder, Constantin Carstens, The gallery as a stage, Burg Galerie, Halle (Saale)

2024

Useful volume (blue II) sound installation, Soirée sonique 89, group exhibition, LTK4, Cologne
Useful volume (blue) object, Mit Klang, group exhibition, Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
Transmit me video documentation, Resonance - Festival for sound art films and new music, Grosso Modo, Tel Aviv
Slow Bell fixed media, Paysages I Composés festival, Grenoble
Na Escada radio soap happening, hinterconti, Hamburg
Musterstadt audiovisual installation, Mayer&Schultz, Lange Nacht der Kunst, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
Stapel fan-driven reed organ, live-electronics, EPHEM Festival, WRG Sensor, Braunschweig
Wer ist am Rohr? fixed media, NNOI Festival, Zernikow
Multiplayer collective real-time composition concept, Ensemble EMN, blurred edges festival, Hamburg
Past forward Mayer&Schultz, site-specific audio play, Altonale, Hamburg
Side Effects podcast feature, On Air - On Site Radio Art Festival, Institute of sonology, Den Haag
Na Escada radio soap happening, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg
Recurved fading multichannel fixed media, Écoutes Périphériques, Vaulx-en-Velin
Slow Bell first prize Slowslam music design contest, Trossingen University of Music
Musterstadt audiovisual installation, muh[sic], Kalletal

2023

Shift sound sculpture, Schausammlung 2023, group exhibition, LTK4, Cologne
Flecken audiovisual multichannel installation, ZOLLhaus, group exhibition Kulturwerk SH, Pinneberg
Fit in sound sculpture,, FUTUR 3 festival, Kiel
Capri Code 8-channel sound installation, PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS, Écologie sonore ‧ Musiques de recherche, Grenoble
Speicher participatory, work-in-progress sound installation, with writer Marie-Alice Schultz, International Buildings Exhibition (IBA), Thuringia
Schalldose sound sculpture, Puzzelink_evidenz, group exhibition, Galerie M6, Hamburg
Like an angel music for a short film by Leonid Kharlamov, 8. Salon, Hamburg
Zwitscherspeicher durational performance for double bell trombone, gesture controlled live-electronics and tin can telephone, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
Draw a note concept for collective composing, Ensemble EMN with Luise Volkmann and Dong Zhou, blurred edges festival, Hamburg
Na Escada: Passagen curation sound art group exhibition, blurred edges festival, Hamburg
Building/s Stories (Douin&Schultz), binaural sound design, Hamburger Architektur Sommer
Under construction, performance with Leonid Kharlamov, Boris Vogeler and Vladimir Seleznev, Hamburger Architektur Sommer
Side Effects podcast feature, Radio Angrezi, HFK Bremen
Speicher participatory, work-in-progress sound installation together with writer Marie-Alice Schultz, Residency at Projektraum Dose, Hamburg
Beelzebub audio play with Leonid Kharlamov, Iris Minich, Boris Vogeler
Capri Code 8.1 sound installation, klub katarakt festival, Kampnagel, Hamburg

2022

Der verpasste Moment fixed media, for Blackbox Poesie 8, Ledigenheim, Hamburg
Inside you binaural birthday song for the 50 anniversary of Deutsches Phonomuseum, St. Georgen
Kipppunkt site-specific 8-channel sound installation, Jupiter (former department store), Hamburg
Trombonist for A space journey, multimedia music theatre, HfMT Hamburg
Building/s Stories (Douin&Schultz), 4-channel stage music, Künstlerhaus Faktor, Hamburg
Capri Code stereo version, art.ist, Kooperative New Jazz, Wiesbaden
Capri Code 8-channel sound installation, HALLO: Festspiele, Hippocampus – sculpture park, Hamburg
Capri Code 8-channel sound installation, HIER ist Platz für sieben, group exhibition as part of PAV_STIP, Kulturwerk Schleswig-Holstein, Pinneberg
Lovers for a day participatory sound installation as part of PAV_STIP, Kulturwerk Schleswig-Holstein, Pinneberg
Transmit me concert installation for trumpet, trombone, two double basses and 19 tin can telephones, blurred edges festival, Hamburg
Concert with Luise Volkmann, Juliette Meyer, Yves Arques, LOFT, Köln
Capri Code 8-channel sound installation, Vogelklang Soundcamp, St. Georgen
Performance of Denis Polecs spatial audio composition Echo Chamber for trombone and live-electronics, Tonlabor, HAW Hamburg,
Schalldose small series of sound sculptures, Global Forest, St. Georgen

2021

Left of the dial curation and festival management together with Tim Huys, PARKS, Hamburg
Dissidents #20 with Axel Dörner and Lorena Izquierdo
Friendly Wires performance with TinTin Patrone, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Collective spawn nine piece improvisation ensemble, blurred edges festival, Hamburg
Lover's phone participatory sound installation, hinterconti, Hamburg
Chasing improvisation concept, 4-channel fixed media, in cooperation with ensemble xenon (Berlin), blurred edges festival, Hamburg

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