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Andrea Belfi

@andreabelfi

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Very proud to have created the music and electronics for Ulrich Rasche’s PRINZ VON HOMBURG, now at the extraordinary @duesseldorfer.schauspielhaus After many weeks of composing, producing, recording and working alongside the rehearsal process, it feels very special to finally see and hear this theater piece come together. Kleist’s Prinz von Homburg is a story about a young prince who disobeys orders in battle, wins the battle, and is nevertheless sentenced to death, a collision between individual freedom, duty, dream and authority. A huge thank you to Ulrich Rasche @ulrichrasche for the trust and for this intense and inspiring collaboration. And enormous thanks to the incredible musicians: @salo_percussion Salomé Amend and @ringorie5 Rie Watanabe at percussion, @kidogohn Guido Kohn at Cello, to @vincent_wikstroem Vincent Wikström for his exceptional work as my musical assistant and to @sixtyfourandtwo Leopold Stoffels at the mixer. And a huge thank you to the wonderful cast: @patrycia_ziolkovska Patrycia Ziolkowska — Friedrich Wilhelm, Kurfürst von Brandenburg @luciakotikova Lucia Kotikova — Prinzessin Natalie von Oranien @yannik.stoe Yannik Stöbener — Feldmarschall Dörfling / Der tote Prinz @andrekaczmarczyk André Kaczmarczyk — Prinz Friedrich Arthur von Homburg Christoph Luser — Obrist Kottwitz @theo.thun Theo Thun — Graf Truchß @patrickgueldenberg Patrick Güldenberg — Graf Hohenzollern @wael_kreiker Wael Kreiker — Hennings @carlosmotololese Carlos Motolese-Trausan — Rittmeister von der Golz @leflo Florian Kreßer — Graf Reuß @leo.domogalski Leo Domogalski — Rittmeister Stranz CREDITS: Music & Electronics — @andreabelfi Andrea Belfi Musical Assistance — @vincent_wikstroem Vincent Wikström Sound Design — @sixtyfourandtwo Leopold Stoffels Direction & Stage Design — @ulrichrasche Ulrich Rasche Dramaturgy — Sebastian Huber Costume — Angelos Mentis Photos — @thomasrabsch Thomas Rabsch taken in Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus - Großes Haus by @andreabelfi
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13 days ago
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'A LETTER TO EUROPE' is a performance directed by Nazanin Noori, based on the poem 'Open Letter to Europe' by poet and playwright @athenafarrokhzad, addressing migration, borders, and displacement in contemporary Europe. Fragments of the poems 'Terrestrial Verses' and 'Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season' by Forough Farrokhzad recur throughout the performance as a poetic refrain. Combining voice, percussion, and electronics, the work features a score composed by Noori together with musician and composer @andreabelfi. Drawing on the structure of a wedding, the performance brings together a classical Iranian singer, @samin_ghorbanii, two spoken-word performers, @katestrong76 and Noori herself, and two drummers, Andrea Belfi and @ludwig_wandinger. Alternating between spoken word and songs, the work reflects the poem’s movement between affective and political registers, while the drummers establish a counter-structure of rhythm and control. The electronic score adds a further layer, echoing the rigid frameworks of institutional systems. Taking the myth of Europa as a point of departure, the work translates themes of coercion and contested belonging into a staged configuration. The mythological reference operates as a structural parallel rather than narrative illustration, situating Farrokhzad’s critique of Europe within a longer history of forced movement and asymmetrical power relations. 'A LETTER TO EUROPE' is a new performance produced by Bergen Kunsthall for 'Another Sun', curated by Jade Meili Barget / @greenjade___. The piece was presented at Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva and will be performed as part of the Kyiv Biennale at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Bergen Kunsthall. Special thanks to @calliesberlin. Performance Dates: \ June 4th at Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland @mahgeneve \ July 11th at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany @kwinstitutefcontemporaryart \ September 20th at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway @bergenkunsthall English translation of Athena Farrokhzad's poem by Jennifer Hayashida / @miehaya Film stills by @instant.prod taken in Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève by @andreabelfi
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4 months ago
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New on Umor Rex 🟡 Originally released by Umor Rex on cassette in 2015, NK012 by B/B/S/documents the first-ever musical meeting of Berlin-based musicians Aidan Baker (Nadja, Canada), Andrea Belfi (Italy), and Erik Skodvin (Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center, Norway). Now, more than a decade later, the album is available on vinyl for the first time, newly remastered for the format by Rafael Anton Irisarri. This marks the third release in a series of four special, limited reissues to be released in 2026 to mark the 20th anniversary of Umor Rex. Recorded with nothing more than a stereo microphone placed in the middle of the room, NK012 captures the trio in their first session together, with the simple intention of improvising. Instrumentation builds in gradual crescendos, shifting textures between passages as looped incarnations of earlier motifs accumulate into all-consuming drones. The five pieces that make up NK012 already set the foundations for the trio’s subsequent work. Across the album, guitars, an array of effects pedals, percussion, and synthesizers merge into a raw and highly intuitive sound world. Vibrant and intense, the pieces move freely between forms and genres, driven by the immediacy of live performance and spontaneous composition. @miasmah — Guitar @aidanbakermusic — Guitar @andreabelfi — Percussion/Synth #umorrex Recorded at NK, Berlin Remastered in 2026 by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll NY Design by Daniel Castrejon by @andreabelfi
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a month ago
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Tomorrow at the opening of Kiezsalon at Schloss Britz, @andreabelfi & @jules_reidy present a live set for drums and guitar. Hailing from opposite ends of the globe, Australia and Italy, but both longtime residents of Berlin, their collaboration is shaped through improvisation, shifting rhythmic cycles, and guitar tunings based on just intonation. They are joined at Schloss Britz by producer alice does computer music and folk ensemble Susannah Stark & Band. → Tickets via the link in bio 🔗 #kiezsalon #kiezsalon2026 #KS26 #digitalinberlin #andreabelfi #julesreidy #schlossbritz taken in Schloss Britz by @andreabelfi
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5 months ago
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working on the poetry of paul celan has been one of the most moving artistic dialogues i’ve ever had. collaborating on this work with @wanda.portal @eddie.barroso @lindylarssonforss @steve_katona @kidogohn @elena_kakaliagou @andreabelfi @muratdikenci brought something into being that could have not come about in any other way. together, we took the risk of expressing what is, at its core, deeply human and therefore divine. at the same time, we placed a finger in the wound of those who seek to detach german history from the present. in doing so, we were quickly confronted with the outrage of those who instrumentalize this very responsibility to obscure their own forms of dehumanization, projecting them instead onto those who are simply crying out for life, and those who are crying with them. especially in light of the current political climate in germany, this became unmistakably clear with this work. and it spoke for itself. due to a new curatorial program at @maxim_gorki_theater from the next season on, our spoken word opera TODESFUGE will be shown only two more times, on may 1st and may 26th, after which it will not be performed again. beautiful images captured by beautiful @etritainment. taken in Maxim Gorki Theater by @andreabelfi
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6 months ago
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10.10.2025 – The Arcarde Orchestra plays a tribute concert for Dean Roberts @km28berlin Is there a right way to remember someone? Probably not. Like the filming of a written story, it will necessarily betray the collection of images, sounds, impressions, projections that we created for ourselves. After Dean Roberts’ passing, many of us felt the need to come together in his absence, to commemorate him as a friend and as an artist. Music and a little irony felt – if not the only right way to do so – one that felt natural to us. Inspired by his seminal 1998 record All Cracked Medias, we thought of coming together as the ‘cracked’ pieces of an imaginary band, taking on an equally scattered and performance-based approach to music-making. The open-endedness, the loose form, the glitches, the unpredictable cracks in the seemingly uninterrupted surface of sound, the space and the moment as part of the piece, the stratification of sound. There is something extremely powerful about something, or someone, that could fall to pieces at any moment, yet doesn’t. The tension, the energy, and the beauty that reside in the very unpredictability of the unsettled parts of a whole. On this evening, we, Andrea Belfi, Adrián de Alfonso, Margareth Kammerer, Stefano Pilia, Emanuele and Elisabetta Porcinai, and Valerio Tricoli, will be performing a continuous piece for percussions, guitars, voice and tape, in which nothing has its given place but somehow does ultimately fall into place. We’ll be drawing from Dean’s repertoire in our many different but equally personal ways, in the hope of creating a space for joyful remembrance. Friday 10, October, 2025 KM28 Karl-Marx-Str. 28, 12043 Berlin Doors 20:00 Start time 20:30 @andreabelfi @adriandealfonso @margareth.kammerer @stefanopiliaviviani @emanuelewsr @intheseawkwardvoids @valerio_tricoli by @andreabelfi
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a year ago
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- “Above My Door, There Is Knocking” by drummer and composer Andrea Belfi focuses on two acoustic percussive instruments: a bass drum and a cymbal. Both merge into a broader electronic composition. The piece was developed during a residency at MONOM in Berlin, using their 4DSOUND system, and was presented at the SPATIAL festival in Berlin and at Lobe Studio in Vancouver. @andreabelfi - Gear(s) & Glass by Romain Azzaro and Jeanne Briand, was crafted from the echoes of shattered glass. Throw a glass onto the floor, and it breaks,” Azzaro explains. “The sound lasts forever.” This spatial sound experience deepens the exploration into a question often debated between the two artists: What might machine music sound like if crafted from glass? The glass may shatter, but it is reborn as glistening granules of sound. @romainazzaro @jeannebriand_ - With “Scatter, Swarm, Sublimate”, by Casimir Geelhoed, Casimir connects methodologies of noise music, counterpoint and spatial sound, making expressive use of the tipping point at which individually perceivable sound sources melt into overarching sound masses. His piece combines dazzling environments of overstimulation with moments of fleeting clarity - a sublime surrender. In memory of Ivan / IOANN. @casimirgeelhoed - IOANN was the artist project of Ivan Sapozhkov. Since 2006, he experimented with forms of electronic sound and virtual instruments, working in the field of experimental sound, film and theatre. In 2014, Sapozhkov founded his experimental sound studio and label Negativespace. On 2016 he was Artist-in-Residence at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. @ioannsound All works will be presented in @4dsound across Saal 2 and MONOM Studio at @funkhaus_berlin. taken in Funkhaus Berlin by @andreabelfi
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a year ago
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Waiting for Godot. In 2024 I composed the music for Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” under the direction of @ulrichrasche at @schauspielhausbochum. For this project, I have been lucky to collaborate with @boniface_____ @spelcamastnak @sevensetti and #hilaryjeffery and many more. Direction: @ulrichrasche Actors: Steven Scharf, @guyclemens , @dominikdosreis , @yannik.stoe Stage Design: Ulrich Rasche, @franz_dittrich_design Costume Design: @_annikalu_ Lighting: Sirko Lamprecht Composition, Musical Direction: Andrea Belfi Musical Assistance: Alfred Brooks Dramaturgy: @medi_terrain Assistant Direction: Linda Hecker, Mattis Krems, David Moser Stage Design Assistance: @lukas_koetz Costume Assistance: Jana Kuhlemeier Prompter: Dr. Arian Schill Speech Coaching: Roswitha Dierck Stage Management: Ulrike Schaper Directorial Internship: Berrit Sandkühler Stage Design Internship: Zora Mette Costume Internship: Vesa Osmani, Merle Bismark Musicians: Andrea Belfi, Alfred Brooks, Hilary Jeffery, Špela Mastnak Pictures by Jörg Zimmermann taken in Schauspielhaus Bochum by @andreabelfi
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2 years ago
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A JAMES MACMILLAN LAMENT REWORK. Copenhagen-based @thelakeradio has commissioned a 20-minute radio art piece by Andrea Belfi and Nazanin Noori. The title is 'A JAMES MACMILLAN LAMENT REWORK'.   Scottish composer and conductor James MacMillan intertwines the political and the spiritual in his work. He draws on Catholic and Scottish musical traditions, while addressing liberation theology. His composition ‘Tuireadh’ (Lament) is dedicated to the 167 victims of the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster. Piper Alpha was an oil platform that exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires in 1988. Mcmillan's lament for the dead premiered on June 25, 1991, at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Scotland. Nazanin Noori and Andrea Belfi have reworked ‘Tuireadh’, incorporating drums, rhythmic percussion and modular electronics, as a tribute to the cries of mourners of human cost. You can find the link to the piece in Bio. Photographed by the one and only @etritainment in the exhibition 'THE ECHO OF PROTEST IS DISTANT TO THE PROTEST' @ccaberlin. by @andreabelfi
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2 years ago
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OUT NOW! Pleased to announce that today my album with the one and only @jules_reidy “dessus oben alto up” was released by @marionettelabel. Music by Jules Reidy and me Recorded @calliesberlin by @marco.anulli Additional recording at Studio Distante Mixed and Mastered by @joetalia Cut by Noel Summerville Artwork by Andreas Bauer Dedicated to Dean Roberts by @andreabelfi
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2 years ago
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excited to announce that @andreabelfi and i are working on the realization of a spoken word opera based on forough farrokhzad poems under the title 'I PITY THE GARDEN' with performer and actress @katestrong76, classical iranian singer @samin_ghorbanii, countertenor @steve_katona, baritone saxophonist @salvosoff, dramaturg @muratdikenci and many more. the piece will premiere on the 17th of october in the studio of @maxim_gorki_theater. photo by @peteroliverwolff #foroughfarrokhzad #ipitythegarden #spokenword by @andreabelfi
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2 years ago
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Announcing the first collaborative recordings by @andreabelfi and @jules_reidy titled ‘dessus oben alto up’ - four expansive soundscapes that revolve around Reidy’s distinctive just-intoned guitar arpeggios shimmering over Belfi’s delicate brushwork and propulsive drum accents. Recorded with @marco.anulli manning the desk at the sound studio of Berlin’s Callie’s, an arts institution housed in a 19th century machine factory where the pair was working together during a residency. Pre-order the album and listen to ‘up’ on the label’s bandcamp page. Out on November 8 (LP/Digital Download) and distributed by @honestjonsrecords / @morr_music . Artwork by Andreas Bauer Photo by Camille Blake by @andreabelfi
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2 years ago
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