Adrian Thieß

chaos|cadence

Ensemble

The ensemble chaos|cadence — comprising Ariadne Dalatsi (voice), Sophie Kockler (clarinet), Jorma Marggraf (piano), and Adrian Thieß (trumpet and electronics) — was formed during their shared studies at the Conservatory of Lübeck. Their work focuses on the development of interdisciplinary concert formats that merge classical and contemporary music with text, visual art, performance, and new media.

With this approach, chaos|cadence was awarded the Possehl Music Prize for New Musical Performance Concepts in January 2023 for their project A-distroy, and received the Prize for Originality at the D-bü Competition in Nuremberg in May 2024 for their project Post-Bodies {corporeal.code}.

Thiess-Dalatsi-Kim

Trio

Since 2022, Ariadne Dalatsi, Goeun Kim, and Adrian Thieß have been working together as an interdisciplinary ensemble at the intersection of experimental music, technology, and performance. Their work places improvised music at its core, aiming to expand improvisational practice through the use of interactive music systems and instrument building, constantly seeking new sonic languages.Their joint performances have included appearances at the Klangtauchen Festival in Lübeck and the next_generation X Festival at ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe.

In summer 2025, the ensemble traveled to South Korea, where they had been invited to present the audiovisual installation frapper dans le vide and to perform a series of concerts as part of the exhibition 관계맺기.

Modular Reverberations

for radio and modular synth

In his piece Modular Reverberations, Adrian Thieß develops a dialogue between a radio and a modular synthesizer. Starting from the diverse range of sounds that emanate from this particular radio — including spoken word fragments, snippets of music, static, and ambient noise — the composition assembles these elements into a dense, multi-layered sonic collage. By capturing and reprocessing ephemeral audio moments, Modular Reverberations draws attention to how meaning is constructed, lost, and recombined in today’s digital environments.