Adrian Thieß
Adrian Thieß is a composer-performer working at the intersection of sound, improvisation, and technology. He studied music and theatre at the Conservatory of Lübeck, where he began combining his instrumental practice with experimental and media-based approaches to music. With trumpet, modular synthesizers, and self-developed musical systems, he creates hybrid sonic environments that question the roles of authorship, embodiment, and machine logic in contemporary music-making. His last performances have taken him to the Spatial Audio Week at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as the Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music in Bangkok. Adrian is also part of the interdisciplinary ensemble chaos|cadence, which is thematically dedicated to the relationship between man and machine and the connection between AI and music. With this approach, they won the Possehl Music Prize for New Musical Performance Concepts in January 2023 with the project A-distroy, and in May 2024 received the Prize for Originality at the D-bü Competition in Nuremberg for their project Post-Bodies {corporeal.code}.
