Encompass
Hommage to Mahler’s 1st Symphony
for small orchestra (2020)
November 29, 2020 via Livestream – Broadcast from Gretchen, Berlin, Germany
Commissioned and performed by the STEGREIF.orchester

Photo by Lucas Kemper
Allongé
Dance performance with live music (2020)
October 31, November 1-3, 2020, Studio 14, Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany
February 25-28, 2021, online stream by Tanzfabrik Berlin
with Julian Weber (choreography & dance), Shade Théret, György Jellinek (dance), Evelyn Saylor (music composition & performance), Annegret Schalke (light)






Photos by Julian Weber and Dieter Hartwig
Cyclus Cygnus
Live performance with 12 swans and 5 musicians (2020)
2 voices, flute, clarinet, harp, electronics, and 12 sounding electric swans
August 29, 2020, Strandbad Rahmer See, Berlin
Installation version: September 11 – 20, 2020, Festival of Lights,
Piano-See, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Composed with Cherilyn MacNeil for the Electric Swan Ensemble


Photos by Florian Giefer
Forgot to Remember – Remember to Forget
Performance for dance and loudspeaker orchestra (2019)
Premiere: September 28, 2019, KONTAKTE ’19 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Film adaptation for livestream and installation – June 27, 2020, Soundance Festival Berlin, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany
with Ruben Reniers (choreography & dance) and the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Commissioned by the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste for the Festival KONTAKTE ’19 in collaboration with Klangzeitort





Photos by Carlos Collado
Take It Like a Man
Electronic and choral music for theater performance (2019)
A production by The Agency with music by Evelyn Saylor and Nile Koetting
Premiere: October 17 & 18, 2019, Ergo Ipsum, Düsseldorf, Germany – with soloists from the Münchner Knabenchor







Photos by Dirk Rose
Oskar Remixed
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by the Bauhaus Agenten, Philine Sollmann, Ruben Reniers, & Marco Baass
Premiere: January 16-24, 2019, 100 Jahre Bauhaus Exhibition, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg), Berlin, Germany
September 11-15, 2019, Festival Bühne TOTAL, Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Germany
Commissioned by Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau




Stills from the film “Oskar Remixed”
Synchromy No. 2
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by Mary Ellen Bute & Theodore Nemeth (1936)
December 6, 2018, Heroines of Sound Festival, HAU 2, Berlin, Germany
Commissioned by the Heroines of Sound Festival





Stills from the film “Synchromy No. 2”
Change Patterns No. 2
by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for two a cappella voices (2018)
November 7, 2018, Beate Uwe, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane, voice


Excerpts from the score for “Change Patterns No. 2”
I Am Because You Were
Electronic score for short film (2018), film by Pierre-Yves Dalka (director, fashion design) and Duduzile Voigts (dance)
Premiere: October 19, 2018, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Online screening: November 6-7, 2020, FILMZ Festival Mainz





Stills from the film “I Am Because You Were”
Change Patterns No. 1
by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for two a cappella voices (2018)
June 24, 2018, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, Germany, curated by A Trans – Rebecca Lane and Evelyn Saylor, voice
Displacement
Modern dance and theater performance (2018)
Premiere: June 7, 8, & 9, 2018, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
May 16, 17, & 18 2019, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
with Ruben Reniers (choreography & dance), Ana Dordevic | Nora Vladiguerova (dance), Barbara Steinitz (stage design), Nicole Kohlmann (dramaturgy)




photos by Carlos Collado
Flatland
Live electronic score for modern dance (2018)
March 30, 2018, Musikbrauerei, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, live music, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Ana Dordevic, dance
SimulacrumX (Part II)
Modern dance and theater performance (2016)
Premiere: September 28, 29, & 30, 2016, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, music and performance, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Rebecca Jefferson, dance, Paula Dobrowski, text and performance
June 23, 24, & 25, 2017, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, music and performance, Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Rebecca Jefferson, dance, Sara Tamburini, performance




Photos by Daniel Nartschick
Gone to Ground
Site-specific playable composition for sonic biking (2016)
July 16, 2016, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany





Prelude and Impromptu
4-channel fixed media piece for Fairlight and field recordings (2016)
Premiere: May 29, 2016, Crescendo Festival 2016, Foyer, Konzertsaal der UdK Berlin, Berlin, Germany
July 17, 2016, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany

Photo by Kaffe Matthews
Seams and Threads
Context-based composition on Sacred Harp singing for fixed media (2015/16)
February 12, 2016, Wave field synthesis Hall, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

schrittweise
Electronic score for modern dance by Evelyn Saylor, Paul Lansky and Ruben Reniers (2015/16)
February 4, 6, & 7, 2016, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany – Ruben Reniers, choreographer, Barbara Steinitz, puppetry and performance, Annapaola Leso, dance



Photos by Philine Sollmann
Pulses Round
Fixed media piece for AKS Synthesizer and Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
December 6, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Multiple performances in live solo sets with audiovisual performance

New Prospect
Fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
December 6, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester

Perspectives
Fixed media piece for Loudspeaker Orchestra (2015)
September 25, 2015, KONTAKTE’15 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany – performed on the Berliner Lautsprecher Orchester
Sounds For A While
Music theater performance (2014/2015)
June 25, 27-30, and July 2, 2015, Tischlerei, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany – Evelyn Saylor, Vera Buhß, Laura Aragoneses, Weiju Shen, Giacomo Gianetta, Ilya Selikhov, Matteo Spanò, Lucie Vítková, composers and performers, Hans Peter Kuhn, Director
Observations: Glass on Strings
Four-channel fixed media and amplified piano (2014/15)
Premiere: February 8, 2015, Studiosaal, Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, Germany
Adaptation for Wave field synthesis: March 14, 2015, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
SimulacrumX
Electronic score for modern dance (2014)
with Ruben Reniers, choreography and dance
Premiere: September 26, 2014, Solo/Duo Festival, Barnes Crossing, Cologne, Germany
January 17, 2015, Solo/Duo Festival, MOHA, Budapest, Hungary
June 9, 2015, Gdansk Dance Festival, Club Zak, Gdansk, Poland
July 3-5, 2015, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
September 16, 2015, Teatro Erba, Torino, Italy
February 4, 6, & 7, 2016, Dock11, Berlin, Germany
January 27, 2018, Solocoreografico Festival, Gallus Theater, Frankfurt, Germany



Photos by Virginia Chiodi Latini
By A Thread
Composition for piano, percussion, and synthesizer by Evelyn Saylor, Edoardo Calgari, and Diana Restrepo (2014)
Released on the album “Gravity – Sound Studies 8. Jahrgang” (2015) – Evelyn Saylor, piano, Edoardo Calgari, synthesizer, Diana Restrepo, percussion
Reckless Poem
Composition for soprano, violin, and piano (2014)
May 3, 2014, Trinity Lutheran Church, New York City – Amanda Gregory, soprano, and the Orfeo Duo (Vita Wallace, violin, Ishmael Wallace, piano)
Commissioned by the Orfeo Duo
Character Pieces
Composition for cello and piano (2013)
Premiere: April 30, May 8, & May 18, 2013, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Audrey Dunne, cello, Evelyn Saylor, piano
January 8, 2017, Merkin Concert Hall, New York City – Laura Melnicoff, cello, Evelyn Saylor, piano
Exuberance
Composition for bass-baritone and piano (2013)
April 30 & May 7, 2013, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Adrien Redford, bass-baritone, Hannah Hudson, piano
Song for Woodwinds and Strings
Composition for flute, clarinet, violin, and two cellos (2012)
December 13, 2012, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Kimi Beck, flute, Shannon Burns, clarinet, Albert Chang, violin, Audrey Dunne, cello, Allison Sherris, cello
Tech Tonic Plates
Composition for Electronics (2012)
September 27, 2012, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Made possible by the Summer Experience in the Arts Award from the Mellon Foundation’s Elemental Arts Initiative
Installed as audiovisual installation by Mari Matsutoya & Evelyn Saylor, June 27-29, 2014, in Gallery Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
Stirrings
Electronic score for modern dance (2012)
May 3, 2012, Pendleton Dance Studio, Pomona College – Ava Untermeyer, choreographer
The Bells
Composition for Electronics, alternate version for pitched percussion (8 players) (2012)
June 3, 2014, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, The Playhouse, Abrons Arts Center, New York City
Diabolical Cathedral
8-channel Composition for Electronics (2011)
May 10, 2011, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Klang Fabrik
Composition for Electronics (2010)
December 13, 2010, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
This Land Is Your Land
Composition for Balinese Gamelan Ensemble (2010)
Scenes of Paris: Gray and Brilliant
Composition for cello, piano, and French horn (2009)
December 14, 2009, Lyman Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, CA – Leah Loversky, cello, Laura Collins, horn, Tracy Zhao, piano
Prayer for My Heart
Anthem for SA chorus and organ (2006)
Premiere: October 22, 2006, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City – the Choristers of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Mollie Nichols, conductor, Steven Lawson, organ
2007, Harvard Memorial Church – Harvard University Choir, Harry Huff, organist and
2008, Trinity Church Wall Street – massed children’s choirs for telecast
Sister Pact
Modern dance with original electronic dance score (2006)
June 2007, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City – Evelyn Saylor, composer, choreography & dance, Elizabeth Saylor, Meredith Saylor, Lydia Saylor, dance