Opportunity Makes Music II: a completely different competition this time, focusing on new lyrics and a new arrangement. Writing lyrics isn't
really my comfort zone, but in the wake of a serious personal event, the words almost wrote themselves. The
quite untraditional track didn't make it through the contest, but it's now available on the usual streaming platforms.
Biertel vor drei - Ein Suffgespräch
über Kunstproduktion in München
(nachgesprochen von unseren Müttern)
(Quarter to Three - a booze conversation about art production in Munich (repeated
by our mothers)) (2020)
A radio play by and with Martin Krejci, Thomas Glatz, Sigi Wiedemann, Florian A. Betz + Florian Schenkel - Soundtrack by Christian Nothaft
published by Volxvergnügen as a cassetten-inlay to the Schrottland Magazine #7.
this is a little byproduct of the recording of "Macht kaputt was euch kaputt macht" for the Demonum -
EP, featuring Florian Schenkel, Thomas Glatz and Gerhard
Lassen.
Cooperation with author Denijen Paulevic
4 texts by refugees in Munich spoken by Paulevic (two of them by himself), music by Christian Nothaft,
made for the webpage arriving-in-munich.de (2016/´18)
KubeNothaft - Album the legendary one and only Album of the short-lived bandproject of Christian Nothaft with Christoph Kube,
named KUBENOTHAFT, released 2001, is now listen- and downloadable at
bandcamp
The idea was to do a conventional sounding piece of music with a classicistic appeal,
without using classical academic methods; hence the title.
It seemed doable, because i did not want it to be perfectly,
i wanted it to have cracks and rough edges. Superficially it is
conventionally, more or less, concerning the arrangement of the
movements (fast - slow - fast) and emphasis on melody and harmony.
The quartet has been composed in 1996. 2007 it was revised completely,
especially the 1. movement got expanded, and a demorecording was
made with virtual instruments.
the piece is not yet performed.
Bodensatz Radio on Laut.fm
The infamous, mostly defunkt, munich label/posse "Bodensatz" sees some
awakening in the virtual domain of internet radio. The Bodensatz-Radio on Laut.fm
presents music related to this open underground collective and the output of the many constellations their participants made music together in the 20 Years
since the beginnings - with large Christian-Nothaft-propotion...