July 17, 2024

MICF Resident Composer Spotlight: Benjamin Scheuer

Benjamin Scheuer’s music is all about sensuality and humor. Both his staged and concert pieces contain theatrical elements and often evoke an atmosphere of darkly colored playfulness. In his works, found objects from daily life are frequently being presented onstage, either live or sampled. Scheuer doesn’t consider himself to be a composer of electronic music, but rather focuses on a world of “live-electrics” in which sounds are produced with the easiest and most economic means possible. His main interest is the human being playing music with its individual characteristic and its tendency to fail whilst technology just…