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Johannes Winkler (1984, Black Forest) is a German composer and media artist based in Essen. His work unfolds at the intersection of contemporary music, text, image, and code — creating hybrid forms that trace a narrative of sensual perception, rhythm, and cultural resonance. He engages artistic disciplines and traditions with conceptual clarity and a distinctive expressive audiovisual language.
His works have been presented at Musica Acoustica Beijing, ZKM Karlsruhe, Fournos Center Athens, and the JOE Festival Essen, among others. He received the Karl Marx Prize in 2018 and won the ZKM SuperCollider Code Marathon. Together with A. Wijayan, he co-founded 'Netzwerk Konnakol Deutschland'. → See full list
  TUPLETMACHINE
Contemporary Music Ensemble, Software Environment | JOE-Offensive Essen | 2023 - 2025
Tupletmachine is an experimental field for algoRhythmic exploration. It merges contemporary ensemble work by members of the Konnakol.de network with a custom-built software-environment for composition and advanced rhythm pedagogy. At its core, Tupletmachine is a hypercultural practice — shaped by a love of sensual arithmetics, complex rhythmic structures, and the 'carnatic impulse' of intercultural friendships emerging from Germany’s Ruhr region.
www.tupletmachine.de
  WINKLER.SINGULARITY
transmedial Project Space | Essen, GER - Installationen - Konzerte - Prints | 2023 - 2025
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
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  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)
  Weitere Slide Compositions ...
für polytemporale Metronome, Bleistiftzeichnung, künstliche Intelligenz und Heilprozess (2023)
Virtual Anushaant
transmediale Installation für augmented reality, Mridangam, Tape und Social Media, Neue Musik Zentrale Essen (2022)
White Noise Stigmata
Körperabdruck für Weißes Rauschen, Schlaf und Wind (2022)
counting with the best: tuplet, pulse and rest
carnatic-rhythm masterclass (trailer) mit B.C. Manjunath - Kunsthaus Essen (2022)
  swiping quantized waves
für KI-Colorizer, südindische Rhythmustheorie und Social Media (2022) - Text/Print Veröffentlichung, Manx Design-Magazin
overlapping recursive cycles
für Klavier, Visual-Tala Metronom, Social Media - polyrhythmische Spieltechnik (2021)
swiping recursive cycles
für Tetraeder, Feedback-Oszillator und Social Media
No.88 = No.78 x No.83
für Ensemble, Animation und Social Media (dead conductors iteration 3) (2021)
counting ways of interaction
für Ensemble, Animation, Aikido und Social Media (2021)
re-counting the US election
für südindische Rhythmus-Zählsilben, 3D Animation und Social Media (2020)
trusting eleven crows
für Supercollider-Code, Animation, Krähen und Social Media (2020)
conceptual atonal carnatic music
Situation für Weißes Rauschen, südindisches Essen, Konnakol und Social Media - Tamil Culture Fine Arts Academy Germany (2018 / 2020)
pleasure of preasure / randomgraph
für 2x Sopran, Countertenor, Alt, Liveelektronik und Video - mit Elisabeth A. M. Kaiser (Doku) (2009 / 2020)
a semi-fictional composer story
für Violine, Toy-Piano, Becken und Social Media (2020)
voice sessions'
für Kassettenrekorder, Kindersingen und Social Media (2020)
paradox mantras
Electroacoustic Music, Bild und Social Media (2020)
oracle music study
biocybernetic art für Anga-Player und Social Media (2020)
Blog Article: SCORE OF INFLUENCE
  TETRALEMMATIC ROSES
winning soundart piece
Karl Marx international composition competition
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, 2018
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.
Blog Article: Tetralemma Klänge: 1, 2, 3, 4/
  NETZWERK KONNAKOL DEUTSCHLAND
Teaching and Researching advanced carnatic rhythm techniques
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
Johannes Winkler * 1984, Blackforest, is a german contemporary music composer, artist, concept developer and cultural ambassador. He lives and works in Essen. Since 2017 he has been re-composing his wide ranging work as a transmedial music-theatre along contemporary music, moving images, text, software and experience.
Winkler has won the international sound art prize 'Karl Marx' BCMG (Birmingham/ London/ Trier), the ZKM Supercollider Code Marathon and is the initiator and lecturer of the South-Indian/-German Network Konnakol Germany. With hundreds of 'slide compositions' on social-media accounts, he influences his future works. Portrait in WDR 3 Radio Studio Contemporary Music.
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Johannes Winkler, 2025