WINKLER.SINGULARITY
transmedial Project Space | Essen, GER - Installationen - Konzerte - Prints
2023 - 2025
www.winkler-singularity.de
WINKLER.SINGULARITY is a transmedial research and art project operating at the intersection of music, computation, visuality, and rhythm. It serves both as an autonomous artistic space for collaboration and as an open archive for emergent systems linking body, machine, and sound. At its core lies the question of how systems — visual, auditory, artificially intelligent, and intercultural — can evolve a language of their own through feedback, transcription, and intuition:
a tactile arithmetic, a way of thinking in pulses and patterns, drawing from carnatic counting techniques and contrasted by expressive visual worlds. The project manifests in publications, installations, concerts, prints, and software.
www.winkler-singularity.de
SCORE OF INFLUENCE
transmedial musictheatre for instagram
2018 - 2025
Blog Article: SCORE OF INFLUENCE
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Since 2018, a dynamic process on social media has given rise to so-called Slide Compositions — musical and video miniatures originally conceived as Instagram posts. These works emerged across multiple accounts, mutually influencing each other and ultimately evolving into larger forms beyond the confines of the platform. Among them:
Antenne I - III
Klavier-Zyklus für Social Media (2023)
Goldei Variationen
Lecture Performance Antizipation, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Ex-Machina (2023)
Quantisiertes Blau
für transmedialen Oszillator, Meer und Social Media - Lecture Performance, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Borbeck, Ya Festival (2022)
counting time-bits of Stravinsky
für carnatic neo-counter, bitcrusher und social media - WDR3 Studio Neue Musik (2022)
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TETRALEMMATIC ROSES
winning soundart piece at Karl Marx international composition competition | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
2018
Blog Article: Tetralemma Klänge: 1, 2, 3, 4
In 2018, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, in collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of the Karl Marx Anniversary Programme, launched the international composition competition Marx.Music – Wilde Lieder. Together with my composer colleague and soprano Elisabeth Anna Maria Kaiser, we won in the SOUNDART category with our piece tetralemmatic roses for a birthday.
To mark Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, we dedicated a series of metaphorical roses to him — each one shaping Elisabeth’s voice as a resonant filter inside her mouth, transforming her singing into sculpted sound. Structurally, the piece works with the so-called Tetralemma — a mode of reasoning that can open up spaces of freedom and new possibilities for action within dichotomous situations.
Blog Article: Tetralemma Klänge: 1, 2, 3, 4/
NETZWERK KONNAKOL DEUTSCHLAND
Teaching and Researching advanced carnatic rhythm techniques
2018 - 2025 +
www.konnakol.de
Our diverse team, based in Essen (NRW), brings together outstanding performers, composers, and transdisciplinary collaborators. Together, we explore and teach how fundamental and complex rhythmic structures can be deeply understood and creatively shaped through South Indian vocal counting techniques (Konnakol / Carnatic rhythm / rhythmic solfège).
We offer both in-person and online seminars at music universities, academies, conservatories, schools, and conferences. In 2018, Anushaant Nayinai Wijayan (co-founder of T.C. Fine Arts Academy Germany) and Johannes Winkler (composer and media artist) founded the Netzwerk Konnakol Deutschland, developing educational materials, videos, and a modular course system tailored to the needs of Western musicians, composers, conductors, dancers, and music educators — inspired in part by Rafael Reina’s PhD work at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
www.konnakol.de