saxophonist, including with Vince Mendoza, Peter Erskine, Michael Riessler, Péter Eötvös, the , the Sharoun Ensemble and the Berliner Philharmoniker. In 2004, he founded the band Royce with Christian Weidner. Stockhausen also composed numerous soundtracks for feature films, documentaries and short films, including the cinema documentary – Die Suche nach dem Einklang and feature films by Israeli film director Amos Gitai. Stockhausen and an ensemble of musicians put together for the 47th Grimme-Preis on 1 April 2011, designed the musical supporting programme for the award ceremony. For each of the 16 prizes awarded, Stockhausen composed his own music, which referred to the respective prize-winning films. In the 2012/2013 concert season, Stockhausen was an artist in residence with the Hamburg Symphony and premiered a total of five new works, including a major orchestral piece entitled "Doktrin der Ruhe". Since 2016, Simon has also been working with his mother, the artist Mary Bauermeister, and composed, among other things, the work Farbrausch for the picture series Farbrausch, which was performed on various occasions. Composition method In his compositional work, Simon Stockhausen makes use of the latest computer technology. He is particularly interested in the potential musicality of sounds and the exploration of sound in all its dimensions. Textures, rhythms and harmonies are derived from noises by sound synthesis and then processed in compositions. Through fundamental processes, e.g. time parameters, dynamic changes through compression and the possibility to play back recordings, recorded sounds are changed, i.e. processed. This approach can be described in musicological terms as "compositional sound synthesis". He uses found sounds as material to create music in which the boundaries between pop, jazz, electronics and new music dissolve. The preparation of the material with the help of compositional sound synthesis has long been part of the composition process of a music that can detach language from its message and make sounds musical. References External links 1967 births Living people 20th-century classical composers German film score composers German jazz saxophonists Male saxophonists People from Bergisch Gladbach