Albums, Tracks and CDs
A table as an instrument – soundtables are what I call found and self-built tables with which I have been improvising sounds, noise textures and rhythms since 2005. Initially playing with cutlery, brushes and other household items, I then switched more to surfaces, cones and hemispheres made of Styrofoam. For the concert on the opening evening of the exhibition project „what knows white…?“ February 22, 2026 in the Künstlerhaus Bergedorf – Hamburg I built a table out of Styrofoam, from which I also elicited white noise using a cello bow, a friction drum and objects made of cardboard, metal and wood. Before that, I researched the new sounds and appropriate playing techniques for the new album. The 6th track is a concert recording from February 22nd, 2026. The other recordings were taken before that
Label bandcamp
released April 5
2026
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Bass clarinet with or without mouthpiece. Recorded December 2022 and January 2024. Microphoned in the clarinet's bell. New sounds, accents, structures can become clear and push for new articulations and playing techniques - with tongue, lips, palate, etc. Perhaps it will become clear, the recordings are arranged chronologically, the first track is the oldest recording. • 18 tracks
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released February 4, 2024
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In the performance I used the previously recorded field recordings of various places in and around Hamburg, found according to a concept around the word Murphy, a record player with toasts that fell on the plates. And the digital possibilities of a laptop in 2006, through which the recordings were processed in space. There are frequent pauses in this recording of the performance, a rare case in electronic concerts and one of the reasons why 16 years later it was important to release this recording of a unique performance.
"If something can go wrong, it will go wrong ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A x 1/(1-sin(F/ 10)) - that is Murphy's law, and that is how the American Air Force engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy formulated it in 1949. Certainty of action is an illusion in the mad complexity of life. Why do inanimate objects behave the way they do? >>> Murphys website
Label: bandcamp
released December 10, 2022
1 track: 59:29
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dec52 • one, two, three, four mixes
EMN: Christoph Funabashi: 12 string acoustic guitar, fx, Kris Kuldkepp: double bass, Felix Mayer: trombone, Heiner Metzger: bass clarinet
DEC52’ offers a new version for the Earl Brown’s famous graphical score December 1952. The concept is driven by the current situation, of not being able to rehearse properly with the ensemble ... more info about the 4 mixes: When we started the dec52 records, we decided that each of us will interprete the score in different direction, so, we had four directions in the space of the dec52 notation - but then the mix with only one direction?? I was curious hearing the four tracks together. It worked and my goal when Mixing was to balance the fourvoices with all the free spaces in between.
The album cover is a part of a painting by Judith Haman, O.T. 2017
A project of the Online Musicking Call May / June 2020 of Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg. Funded by the Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg.
Label: bandcamp
released 11. July 2020
4 tracks
all tracks: 21:20
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First: Eleven solos - Heiner Metzger: alto clarinet
record date: 13.october 2018 + 26. november 2018
record, mastering pp.: Heiner Metzger
With Track 12 starts the live recordings of my solo performance at the concert serie Frequenzgaenge #84. After listening, i recognized eight parts in the about 24 minute recording i can use as single tracks for better listening the personal aspects of my improvisation.
Judith Haman did the video/audio recordings of the solo concert, Gunnar Lettow does the Frequenzgänge Concert Serie.
Label: bandcamp
released
26.11. 2018
19 tracks
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Study 1 of the Long While
The study 1 of the long while is a concept piece composed for an ensemble of two clarinet musicians minimum. One sheet with 44 notes between a' flat and the d'' and four bars rest. The score should be read in one direction and then turned and played without a gap. Each player has to start and continue in an individual tempo and not adapt the tempo of one other player. After the two sheets of the score read in both directions only read the score without playing the notes in the same tempo as before, then start again playing the score in the both directions. Thereafter stop playing and stay until the last of the musicians finished - the piece is over. For this recording i played 10 different tracks, 4 with alto clarinet and 6 with clarinet.
Label: bandcamp
released 14. November 2016
One Track: 11:35
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foam is an album of my solo work with styrofoam objects and the soundtable. In some of the tracks i changed the recorded sounds and made new compositions of them, other are nearly as recorded. the soundtable consists of two thin wood panels. the styrofoam parts i used have different shapes.
the 8 tracks of the album: push cone 04:31, winks 01:39, rasp 02:34, Tacts 03:59, mumble 02:28, prevalent 03:18,
budge 00:11, pebbles 09:47
Label: bandcamp
released 8. February 2016
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The ad hoc trio Simon Camatta, Gunnar Lettow and Heiner Metzger. Recorded at the Frequenzgänge #44 concert / 5.09.2014 / Linker Laden Hamburg / Germany.
Gunnar invited me to the trio set with Simon Camatta and himself - he is organizer too. We played after the solo set of SImon and fortunately the set was recorded by Gunnar. Simon Camatta used drums and percussion with special objects, while Gunnar Lettow takes his electric bass with preparations, electronic and objects, Heiner Metzger performed with styropor objects, bow and the soundtable.
simoncamatta.de • gunnarlettow.wordpress.com
Label: bandcamp
released 1.October 2014
One Track: 28:08
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Gregory Büttner - Heiner Metzger
A duo set of the Stark Bewölkt Concert / 03.09.2014 / Hörbar Hamburg / Germany. Both perform with objects, G.Büttner with a computer as sound generator, unpacked speakers and fans, H.Metzger with the soundtable, a bow and styropor pieces. They are part of the Stark Bewölkt Quartett as musicians and organizer of the concert serie.
Juxtaposit
Label: bandcamp
released 14.9.2014
One Track: 17:06
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Goh Lee Kwang: stereo dj-mixer,
Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects
records 2010-05-10
Label: bandcamp
released 2.09. 2013
Tracks: 09:17 • 04:32
04:31 • 01:38
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Ton Art Ensemble & Ernesto Rodrigues
Ernesto Rodrigues: viola, Georgia Ch Hoppe: clarinet, mandolin, Nicola Kruse: violin, Robert Klammer: zither, electronics, analog synthesizer, Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects, Helmuth Neuman: trumpet, frenchhorn, Thomas Niese: double bass, Thomas Österheld: bass clarinet, Krischa Weber: cello, Hannes Wienert: sopr. sax, trompsax, sheng
Label: Creative Sources
CS 170 • released 2010
Part 1: 38:14 • Part 2: 7:30
Recorded December 2009 in Hamburg
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Birgit Ulher: trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker, objects
Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects • info, press: info • picture
Birgit Ulher and Heiner Metzger play together in various formations since 25 years. The first time they played together in this instrumental constellation was 2005 on the occasion of the exhibtion 'Vom Tisch zur Tafel' by Judith Haman. Over the years they played concerts together with local and international musicians, often at Blinzelbar - where Heiner's concert series ‚h7-Club' took place – and other venues. In the meantime they have developed a very specific, abstract, electroacoustic soundspace. On the soundtable objects of the every day life like wire whisk, brushes, cutlery and glases are moved, bowed, picked and rubbed. Amplified by piezo pick-ups the sounds get an unusual presence, soundtextures and details become cleary audible. These sounds interact, contrast and mix with a differentiated grammar of trumpetsounds, occasionally extended by radiosounds, which are projected into the trumpet using a speaker as mute. The result are complex, partly reductionist soundlandscapes, changing between layered and percussive passages. The duo released their first CD 'blinzeln' in December 2008 on the portuguese label Creative Sources.
Label: Creative Sources | CS 155 • released 2008
Recorded 2007 in Hamburg,
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Alt Sax: Heiner Metzger, Bar. Sax: Anne Wiemann, Bass: Bernd v. Ostrowsk, Drums: Björn Lücker, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Moog]: Klemens Kaatz, Guitar: Christian Ribas; Sampler: Guy Saldanha, Tenor Sax: Karsten Glinski, Trumpet, Trombone: Hermann Süß.
Recorded 2001, Hamburg, Germany
The tunes played by the A3XX-bigband are based on samples that Christian Ribas recorded from musicians of the bigband. The compositions and arrangements relate to loops of these samples. Incidental noises created while playing instruments are put in the foreground and layered into grooves. A musician triggers and processes the loops live.
Label: Knistern
KNISTERN #4 • 7"-Vinyl 33 ⅓ RPM
released 2004
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A1 Scheppern 4:05
A2 Klickern 2:17
B1 Flattern 2:49
B2 Klappern 2:48
Brot & Honig • Evan Parker & Ton Art Ensemble
Tracks:
1. Brot & Honig 36:36 • 2. Syrah & Papidoux 37:04
Evan Parker: sopr.sax, Alexander Dannullis: git.
Heinz E. Goedecke: tb, didj., Michael Haase: banjo,
Ole Hoffmann: bar.sax., Georgia Ch.Hoppe: e-git., bcl, hybrid clar., Robert Klammer: perc., Nicola Kruse: viol., tenorviol., Ulla Levens: viol., Heiner Metzger: cl.,acl., sax.,synth., Claudius Molter: fl., altofl.,picc., Harry Nitz: vibr.,perc., Hannes Wienert: sopr.sax., saxtrump., Peter N.Wilson: double bass.
released 2000 • Label:
truemuze | TrueMuze 0003
1. Brot & Honig 36:36 2. Syrah & Papidoux 37:04
booklet text of
Peter N. Wilson >>
short parts of:
"Brot& Honig"
+ "Syrah & Papidoux"
zwar bade ich gerne... (although I bathe like ...)
Concert by graphical notations of Heiner Metzger
January 9, 1999 / KX Kunst auf Kampnagel
1. wysiwyg 08:00 2. zwar bade ich gerne 28:00
3. lique sense 07:02
Musicians: Ton Art-Ensemble: Michael Haase: banjo, Mauretta Heinzelmann: trombone, Georgia Ch. Hoppe: bassclarinet, clarinet , Ole Hoffmann: baritonsaxophon,
John Hughes: doublebass, Robert Klammer: diverse Geräuscherzeuger, Nicola Kruse: violin, Heiner Metzger: clarinet, altsaxophon, synthesizer, composer, Claudius Molter: flute, Harry Nitz: percussion, vibraphon
Krischa Weber: cello, Hannes Wienert: sopransaxophon
Label: bandcamp
released 06/1999
re-released 12/2015
3 Tracks: 43:02
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