Luxa Mart*in Schüttler: Diskreter Wolf

for six voices, video, and live electronics

(2021/2024)

Diskreter Wolf is a musical appropriation. The work is based on a composition by Hugo Wolf from 1881. The third stanza of his choral work Resignation from the Sechs geistlichen Lieder is heard in Diskreter Wolf, extremely slowed down and fragmented. Chord by chord, the original Wolf is discretely (in the mathematical sense) sampled, microtonally bent, and enriched with artificial vocal sounds. It is essentially the vocal imitation of an electronic sound synthesis. On top of this, digital artifacts are superimposed, presenting further layers of artificiality visually and sonically in contrast to the historical source material. Despite these technical methods, Hugo Wolf’s late-Romantic musical language resonates throughout the piece. The associated bourgeois longing for beauty and redemption contrasts with the comfort suggested by Eichendorff through (collective) suicide. The compositional interventions heighten this hauntingly dystopian effect and create a sort of post-human soundscape.

(Luxa Mart*in Schüttler)

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Come, thou, world’s comfort, silent night,

How softly do thy feet alight!

The gentle air is sleeping.

A sailor home from travels long,

Sings to the sea his even song

In God’s protected harbor.

Like fleeting clouds the years have gone

And I am left here all alone,

Bereft of all devotion.

And then thou comest wondrously.

As I am sitting wearily,

My eyes turned to the ocean.

O thou true comfort, silent night.

How dearly welcome is thy sight,

As lonely thoughts befall me.

O grant me rest from love and scorn,

Until th’eternal rosy dawn.

Will o’er the treetops call me.

Joseph von Eichendorff, Der Einsiedler (1837)

Luxa Mart*in Schüttler works as a composer, performer, and media artist with an aesthetic focus on the recontextualization of social, media, performative, biographical, or bodily conditions in music. For this, they deliberately employ disparate sonorities, structural imbalances, and sonic diversity, often interspersed with pop cultural references.

Luxa’s works often emerge in collaboration with selected allies, such as the Nadar Ensemble, asamisimasa, MAM. manufaktur für aktuelle Musik, Ictus, ensemble mosaik, or Trio Catch. Furthermore, their music is performed by numerous renowned ensembles and featured at international festivals. Additional contributions include publications, radio broadcasts, lectures, courses, performances, installations, exhibitions, and concerts worldwide.

After studying composition and music theory at the Folkwang University of the Arts with Nicolaus A. Huber and Ludger Brümmer, they were a fellow at institutions such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Villa Serpentara, and in 2023/24, they were a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. They have taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Since 2014, Luxa Mart*in Schüttler has been a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

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