Works

Michel Roth's works are published by Ricordi and MusicaMundana.

Theatre/Opera/Performance

• Räuber-Fragmente (after Robert Walser)
       for actor, improvising soloist, saxophone, guitar and double bass (2011)
       Libretto: Michel Roth
       Audio / Score (complete book)
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• Im Bau (after Franz Kafka)
       for soprano, oboe/lupophon, cello/singing saw, piano/melodica and live electronics (2011)
       Libretto: Michel Roth.
       Stage version: Audio / Brochure
       Radio opera version: Website / Publisher
   
• Die Künstliche Mutter, a depressive operetta (after Hermann Burger)
       for soprano, mezzosoprano, tenor, bariton, two actresses and ensemble (2016)
       Libretto: Michel Roth
       Trailer / Video / Brochure
    
• SPIEL HÖLLE
       for ensemble (bar. sax., e-guitar, symthesizer/sampler, perc., live-electronics) and pinball club (2021)
       Videodocumentation

Orchestral Works.

• Kristall for string orchestra (1998)
   
• Der Spaziergang for two baritons and orchestra (2007)     Audio
   
  
• rebotco for orchestra (2012)    Audio / Score
   
• Die letzte Welt for percussion solo and orchestra (2018)     Preview / Trailer / Video (360°) / Score
  
  

Ensemble Works (including Choir)

• Schöllenen for ensemble (2001)     Audio / Score
  
  
• PATERA for frenchhorn quartet and percussion quartet (2003)     Audio
   
• Die auf dich zurückgreifende Zeit for 6 voices and ensemble (2006)
       1. Zur Entstehung des Mittelmeers   Audio / Score
       2. Die Badener Buch   Audio
       3. Das Kupfer   Audio
       4. Verankerungen   Audio
       5. Die Blumen   Audio
       6. Das historische Präsens   Audio
   
• PESSOA for 9 voices and ensemble (2007)    Audio
   
• molasse vivante for ensemble (2007)
   
• MOI for big ensemble (after original tapes by Giacinto Scelsi) (2012/13)    Score
  
  
• Grund for variable folk music ensemble (2013)   Audio 
  
  
• Thou Not I - after 23 ultraconserved words from the last ice age for 16 voices (2015)    Audio / Score
   
• DOPPELQUINTETT for woodwind quintet and string quintet and a game master (2017)     Score
   
• pod for big ensemble (or two separated ensembles) and individual electronic devices (2017)     Audio / Score
  
  
• SPIEL HÖLLE (concert version) for prepared saxophone, e-guitar, synthesizer/sampler, percussion and live-electronics (2022)
   
• RAMANUJAN FEVER DREAM for a mobile ensemble in three rooms, audio- and video-feedback and live-elektronics (2022)     Trailer / Video

Chamber Music

• verinnerung for piano trio (2001)     Audio
   
• erschöpfung for string trio (2002)     Audio
   
• verrückung (...Boogie-Woogie) for piano quartet (2003/rev.2010)     Audio
   
• Quellmund for oboe and string trio (2004)     Audio
   
• HOAX. Variationen für zwei Gitarren (2004)     Audio
   
• molasse vivante for piano duo (2004)     Audio
   
• Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd for flute, piano and percussion (2005)     Audio
   
• SKYTALE for clarinet, cello and piano (2005)     Audio
   
• Zwirn for 4 natural horns (2007)     Audio
   
• Wendungen for speaker and piano quintet (as a counterpart to Schoenberg’s "Ode an Napoleon") (2014)
       Audio (Wendungen 1) / Audio (Wendungen 2)
   
• (w)hole for string quartet (2018)
  
  
• Der sechste Sinn. Ein Konrad Bayer-Medley for Altsaxophon/Bontempi-Saxophon, Posaune/Mundharmonika and Piano/Toy Piano (2022)     Video
   
   
  

Solo Pieces

• Tönung und Schatten for accordion (2002)    Audio
  
  
• Töne oder Tiere for natural horn (2006)     Audio
   
• Trois Têtes de Giacometti for percussion (2007)    Audio (Tête 1) / Audio (Tête 2) / Audio (Tête 3)
   
• Tête - Crâne for clarinet (A) (2007)     Audio / Score
   
• KAVALKADE for double bass (2007)     Audio / Video
   
• Plaie et Douceur for viola (2009)     Audio / Score
   
• Raumerweiterungssignale for eighth-tone horn and electronics (2011)
   
• Die Zunge des Gletschers for singing double bass player (2015)     Audio / Video
   
• ʻAʻā for violin (2015/19)
  
  
• LAUT etude for trombone (2016)     Score  
   
• Random Walks for baroque violin (2020)
   
  
• AROMA for Oboe d'amore (2021)     Video
  
  
• MEDUSA (Pinball Etude No. 3) for Doublebass (2023)     lecture-recital (including MEDUSA)
   

Installations

• to be held for a long time (nach La Monte Young) für Kochsalzinfusionen, einen Kupferkessel und zwei Metallophonstäbe (2001/rev.2008)
  Dampfzentrale Bern, Musik-Akademie Basel (2001); Kunsthaus Zug (2008)
   
• Gondelwandel for 4 transducers, subwoofer, audioplayer and cable car gondola (2021/2022)
  Festival Zeiträume Basel (2021), Verkehrshaus der Schweiz Luzern (2022)
   
• Handlaufbahn (Hommage à Christoph Rütimann) for 4 transducers, ropeway sound and metallic handrail (2022)
  Hans-Erni Museum Luzern
   
• Seilsender for 5 live-streams of Alpine ropeways as an immersive sound installation (2023)
  in collaboration with Electronic Studio Basel
  Festival Alpentöne Altdorf Website

 
Arrangements

• Arnold Schönberg: Drei Klavierstücke op.11, arranged for chamber orchestra by Michel Roth (1999)
   
• Es weckt das Lied die Liebe, early songs by Gustav Mahler arranged for chamber ensemble or small orchestra by Michel Roth (2003)
   
• Franz Schreker: Nachtstück aus der Oper Der ferne Klang, arranged for chamber orchestra by Michel Roth (2006)