Eloain Lovis Hübner

Now available: " ̶S̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ Q͟u͟e͟e͟r͟i͟n͟g͟ [?] the World. On Compositional Thinking in More-Than-Musical Contexts", bilingual edition (German/English), 208 pages. "What if composition were not about control, but about opening the world? In this concise essay, Eloain Lovis Hübner redefines compositional thinking beyond notes, parameters, and the ideal of musical autonomy. Moving between music, theatre, and performance, scores appear not as fixed instructions but as invitations—to collaboration, ambivalence, loss of control, and creative reuse. Composition emerges as a transdisciplinary practice that structures, opens, and queers the world. Political, embodied, and material, it resists normative order, academic seriousness, and binary logic. Instead, music becomes a testing ground for new forms of togetherness, collective authorship, and creative work in the productive space in between." Thank you @wolke_verlag for your spontaneous trust and your inspiring enthusiasm for embarking on this journey with me! 🚀 Thank you to the first readers: @schaumtraumweinsein @tassilotesche @konsonantenmuell @hanusasebastian for reviewing the text with so much precision, kindness, and care, and for empowering me to go even further with it than I had expected! 📖💕 Thank you @kuenstlerhausvillaconcordia for giving me the peace and quiet which made this project possible in the first place! 🏰 Thank you @d.vodenicharska for the beautiful design! 🎨 Thank you to all the Dolls, T-Boys, Enbies, Genderbenders, Fluids, and Agenders inside and outside of contemporary music for your existence and being, for your perseverance and continuing on. I know you are there, and I love and see you always. "to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine" (David Gate). This book is for you. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️ Slide 3: "The Navidson Records", @muenchenerbiennale / @buehnenbern 2016, © Peter Kraut Slide 4: "φeerroom", @orbit.cologne / @stimme_x 2022, © @kollektiv_35 Slide 5: Jerusalem 2016 Slide 6: J. M. W. Turner, "Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus", 1829 Slide 7: "[…] we are all connected and we love you", 2025

"crunch" is out today at WERGO / Edition Zeitgenössische Musik, as physical CD and on Spotify! "Across all the works on this CD, it becomes clear that Eloain Lovis Hübner does not understand sound as fixed material, but rather as a state, a fragile constellation, a living relationship between bodies – instrumental, vocal or electronic. The music is constantly in motion, attracting, repelling, tilting, shimmering, breaking apart and reassembling itself. It creates spaces in which listening itself becomes a physical experience: focused, fragile and yet full of energy." Thank you @podiumgegenwart @deutschermusikrat for making this possible, for this wonderful process over four years, and for all your understanding, support, and humor! 💜🚀 Thank you @sophiemiliebeha for your precise listening, asking, and finding so beautiful words for my music in the booklet text! 🎶📝 Thank you @konsonantenmuell for your crunchy punchy artwork and for your patience during the process! 🍪🎨 Thank you Robert F. Schneider for recording and editing the music with so much calmness, sensitivity, and warmth – and for this whole journey together from which I learnt a lot! 🎤💾 Thank you @schallfeldensemblegraz @spoldzielniamuzyczna @auditivvokal_dresden @airborneextended #ardittiquartet @langeberwecklorenz for your enthusiasm and your wonderful playing. You've brought so much joy, energy, fantasy, craft, and magic to the studio and into the recordings, and made them a cookie box full of sparkle, sprinkles and surprise. 💿✨

crunch modes 3.0 (2025, excerpt) for flute, bass clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, and audio playback premiered by @spoldzielniamuzyczna on March 14, 2025, @cricoteka Kraków Full video recording on YouTube now!

Had some serious fun (seriously) performing at @koelnerphilharmonie yesterday morning. What a journey that was — a true trip to the stars, with a nearly full hall coming along for the ride 🌌 An exciting program featuring works by Gérard Grisey, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Chaya Czernowin, alongside the world premiere of “Pizza Crunch” by @eloainlovis 🍕 Beautiful times — honestly, what better way to spend a Sunday morning? 📸 @jay_raissis #ÉrmaEnsemble #KölnerPhilharmonie #NeueMusik #Köln #Konzert

„Pizza Crunch!“ by @eloainlovis at @koelnerphilharmonie Such a fun concert - thank you all for joining our trip to the stars 🌌 Conductor: @yorgos.ziavras #neuemusik #köln #érmaensemble #kölnerphilharmonie #konzert

Ever wondered what actually happens during @erma.ensemble rehearsals? Here’s your exclusive backstage pass… tea included 🫖 Rumour has it @veronique.deraedemaeker is still laughing 😆 (We will be serious for just a second) Rehearsing @eloainlovis ’ “Pizza Crunch” for our debut at @koelnerphilharmonie tomorrow morning. Don’t miss it. #neuemusik #köln #érmaensemble #kölnerphilharmonie

As we prepare for our concert at the Kölner Philharmonie on Sunday, in the latest issue of our newsletter we speak with @eloainlovis about their piece “Pizza Crunch,” commissioned for this project by the Kölner Philharmonie and receiving its world premiere on Sunday. To read the full interview and get a glimpse of the music, head to the link in our bio > click on Substack. #ÉrmaEnsemble #KölnerPhilharmonie #NeueMusik #WorldPremiere #Interview

Montréal, Québec, Canada 🇨🇦 My temporary home for the past two months and one of the world’s most vibrant and thrilling contemporary music scenes. A city with a nasty winter in all its dreary shades of gray, relentless and seemingly never-ending. But when the time comes, people crawl out of their houses and the sun magically conjures up summer within two weeks, this island in the St. Lawrence River transforms into one of the most charming, colorful, and welcoming places you can imagine. Thank you @goetheinstitut_montreal and @groupelevivier for letting me experience all of this: late winter, early summer, all the concerts, and all the lovely encounters. I will always look back with longing and gratitude, and I will be sure to come back! (Slides 8-11 are from Toronto and Niagara Falls)

crunch modes 1.0 (2023, excerpt) for bass flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, and live electronics German premiere by @iema_frankfurt on February 13, 2026, cresc… biennale / @mousonturm Frankfurt Full video recording on YouTube now! #contemporarymusic #newmusic #composer #crunch

crunch modes 2.0 (2023, excerpt) for recorder, darbuka, harpsichord/synthesizer, baroque violin, viola da gamba, noisemakers, and audio playback performed by @continuumxxi , members of @iema_frankfurt and high school students from Frankfurt on February 13, 2026, cresc… biennale / @mousonturm Frankfurt Full video recording on YouTube now! #contemporarymusic #newmusic #composer #crunch

crunch modes 1.0 (2023, excerpt) for bass flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, and live electronics German premiere by @iema_frankfurt on February 13, 2026, cresc… biennale / @mousonturm Frankfurt Full video recording on YouTube now! #contemporarymusic #newmusic #composer #crunch

Compositrice basée à Berlin, @eloainlovis Eloain Lovis Hübner développe une pratique artistique qui s’inscrit dans la recherche sonore expérimentale, explorant les potentialités de l’analogique à travers des formats spatiaux, transdisciplinaires et collaboratifs, en dialogue avec des environnements sociaux, naturels, technologiques et médiatiques. Ce jeudi 16 avril, en clôture de sa résidence à Montréal, dans le cadre du programme de résidence en musique contemporaine du Goethe-Institut en collaboration avec Le Vivier, elle présente la première nord-américaine de deux œuvres solo composées en 2025 pour l’ensemble polonais primé Spółdzielnia Muzyczna. Avec T 5.48 pour violoncelle et E 56.9 pour saxophone, Eloain Lovis Hübner poursuit une recherche au long cours sur des techniques de production sonore inhabituelles pour des instruments classiques, développées ici à travers des processus d’expérimentation et d’improvisation. Une discussion avec la compositrice suivra la représentation. Événement gratuit sur inscription Jeudi 16 avril - 17h [Goethe-Institut] ➜ Infos & Billets: https://levivier.ca/fr/concert/saison-2025-26/eloain-lovis-hubner-t-548-pour-saxophone-e-569-pour-violoncelle