The collective RecPlay has been initiated  2001 in the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague by the Interfaculty ArtScience / Image And Sound students. The group is currently centered around Robert Pravda and Kasper van der Horst. I joined last year and recently we started moving around within the Royal Academy of [...]

Stuttgart Nachts (Stuttgart at Night)
Music improvised live by the Helios String Quartet on the 21st of October 2006 in the Stuttgart Wagenhallen to the 90-minute (otherwise silent) film by Fried Dähn
The Helios String Quartet in this recording is made up of:  Felix Borell – Violin / Ulrike Stortz – Violin / Gareth Lubbe – Viola, [...]

BL Lacerta Improvisation Quartet in the formation active  between 1980 and 1983: Robert Price, clarinet & other; Leslie Gay, tuba & other; Scott Roller, cello & other; David Anderson, percussion, analog electronics & other.
These recordings are a sampler of recordings made in November 1981 at the beginning of an exciting two-year residency awarded by Chamber [...]

Seven by Seven
Ulrike Stortz, violin/voice; Scott Roller, cello/voice; David Anderson, grand piano/voice;
These tracks were made on 12 August 2008 in an afternoon recording session in the O’Donnell Performance Hall, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas USA. David and Scott had played together for several years (1980-83 in Denton/Dallas) in the [...]

First encounter in this formation (blind date) : Angelika Sheridan, flute/bass flute/voice; Ulrike Stortz, violin/voice; Scott Roller, cello; John Hollenbeck, drums/ percussion. Closing concert of the KLANGBILDUNG festival in the Exploratorium in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Pieces free-improvised in this order. In August 2009 this combination tracked in Colgne for a CD which is currently being prepared… Scott played [...]

Improvisations 2008 is a selection of different pieces – all recorded in 2008 – which originated either in the course of Hanna Schraffenberger’s Karl-Steinbuch-Scholarship “Interactive real-time applications for free improvised music” or her bachelor thesis on “Human-Computer Interaction in Free Improvised Music”. Besides the acoustic sounds of the cello/piano (Scott Roller) and the violine/voice (Ulrike Stortz) electronic sounds [...]

Open_Sounds have played together in this and other combinations since October 2004 when they met on an improvisation course for young composers led by Scott Roller and Ulrike Stortz. They contributed in a very real sense to Stortz/Roller’s founding Open_Music, a non-profit organisation based in Stuttgart, Germany which has been very active and successful in working with young people of diverse musical backgrounds since 2005. The following [...]