CHAMBERLAB

since 2003
Solo electric Violin & FX

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CHAMBERLAB öffnet einen Klangraum zwischen kammermusikalischer Verdichtung und fliessender Entgrenzung. Der akustische Klang der Violine entfaltet sich zu einem vielschichtigen, orchestralen Kosmos. Streicherflächen verschieben sich wie tektonische Platten, fragile Melodien verdichten sich zu schwebenden Drones, während polyrhythmische Strukturen unter der Oberfläche pulsieren.  Mit viel Improvisation lässt sich Chamberlab auf intensive Steigerungen und unerwartete Wendungen ein, die das Publikum auf eine Reise mit labyrinthischen Umwegen nehmen. 

EN: CHAMBERLAB opens a sonic space between chamber-like density and fluid dissolution. The acoustic sound of the violin unfolds into a multilayered, orchestral cosmos. Expansive string textures shift like tectonic plates, fragile melodies dissolve into hovering drones, while polyrhythmic structures pulse beneath the surface.

ES: CHAMBERLAB abre un espacio sonoro entre la densidad de la música de cámara y la fluida disolución de los límites. El sonido acústico del violín se despliega en un cosmos orquestal de múltiples capas. Las texturas de las cuerdas se desplazan como placas tectónicas, las frágiles melodías se condensan en drones flotantes, mientras que las estructuras polirrítmicas laten bajo la superficie.

VIDEOS:

Concierto para una escultura sonora de Alexa Grande

2026 Equbosque, Vejer de la Frontera, ES

Concert @ 33C3 – Chaos Communication Congress / Chaos Computer Club

CCH, Hamburg 2016

RELEASES:

Chamberlab – JANUAR
Chamberlab – WATER BOILER

Auf der Single SWATHE (2023) öffnet CHAMBERLAB einen Klangraum zwischen kammermusikalischer Verdichtung und fliessender Entgrenzung. Die beiden Stücke eröffnen ein Spannungsfeld zwischen zwei komplementären Bewegungen. Federnde Delay-Pattern treffen auf obertonreiche Noise-Texturen, filigrane Strukturen kippen in dichte, pulsierende Klangflächen.

Chamberlab & Das Antonym – LEAK
Chamberlab & Das Antonym – REMOTE (Live)
Chamberlab & Das Antonym – FRAME
Chamberlab & Das Antonym – COLD OUTSIDE (Live)

A Collaboration between Chamberlab (Mark Matthes) & Das Antonym (Anton Koch). Electric Violin and Laptop.
These four tracks are a fragment of the long term collaboration, including multiple live concerts, recordings, and art projects on data sonification and sound installations. Recorded & online Release 2011

Chamberlab – CIRCLE OF FIFTH (2016)

A spiralling movement through the circle of fifths, where chord progressions mutate through fluctuating tempos and shifting tonal terrain. Gradually assembled through live-looped violin.

“Sound Ventilation System”
8 Channel Sound Installation and Concert.
04.02.2023 – Hansaallee, Düsseldorf
As part of the seminar “Akustische Kunst”, RSH/IMM Düsseldorf.

„Erwartungsfläche“ (development site)

Concert for Violin & 8-Channel Sound System
Simultanhalle, 2021, Video Version 2023

An exploration of the sonic properties of the site around the exhibition space „Simultanhalle“. The resonance of objects accumulates into an acoustic architecture of overtones. Followed by a sarcastic imagination of its potential transformation or gentrification.

Developed within the Master’s program under the supervision of Phillip Schulze – Institute for Music and Media / Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf.

CONCIERTO PARA UNA ESCULTURA

DE ALEXA GRANDE

Sound Wasteland is an interactive installation by Alexa Grande, developed in collaboration with sound artist and musician Mark Matthes. Each element of the installation vibrates at its own frequency through a custom-built sonic mechanism, turning the sculptural structures into resonant bodies. Triggered by the movements and presence of visitors, the work generates evolving rhythms and fragile melodic constellations, as if the installation were a living organism. Sound Wasteland reflects on the uncanny atmosphere of abandoned urban spaces, where resonance can create moments of poetic beauty, yet at higher intensities also carries the potential for tension, rupture, and destruction.

THE MOTION ORCHESTRA

since 2018

David Hanke (Production, Composition)

Mark Matthes (Violin Arragements, Composition)

Releases:

ALL ONE (2021) (Bandcamp)

Where The Rivers Flow – Compilation (2025) Bandcamp

PHILIPP CASPAR FREDERICK

Philipp Caspar Frederick – Voice, Piano, Guitar
Mark Matthes – Violin
Thomas Lebioda – Bass
Jonas Engelke – Drums

Trailer for the forthcoming album „Pregnant Nazarener“ by Philipp Caspar Frederick. (Hamburg 2011)

Recorded 2010 – … to be Released soon!

FULL TRACK: „Joseph’s Boys“

Philipp Caspar Frederick – RIDING HEARSES (2007)

Listen on BANDCAMP

„Brute Brother“

12.07.2008 live at Knust Hamburg

„She is zu kalt“ (Album: Riding Hearses)

live in concert 22.02.08 Hamburg Germany

Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well young enough to make it more luscious than grinderman.

Trailer for the still forthcoming Album: „Pregnant Nazarener“
Song: „Is That You John Wayne?“

„Inch By Inch“

Im Bauch des Stückgutfrachters MS Bleichen auf Einladung des Kunstfestivals Wahrschau zur Langen Nacht der Museen am 24.04.2010 im Hamburger Freihafen.

FULL TRACK: „Inch By Inch“

„Joseph’s Boys“

Philipp Caspar Frederick LIVE unterm Deutschen Schauspielhaus Hamburg 09.01.2010

FULL TRACK: „Joseph’s Boys“

PHILIPP CASPAR FREDERICK performs

„Ludwig II.“ in „Autofiktives Kino & Konzert“

Metropolis Cinema part of „RIDING HEARSES III“

ICH JETZT TÄGLICH

COLLABORATIONS

MR VAST

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.KLEIN

website

FRAU KRAUSHAAR

Le Salon Is Very Morbidä (2009 Labelship)

The Power of Appropriation (2012 Materie Records)
Live concerts & Support with „Chamberlab“ on Tour in 2012