about

Ben Meerwein is a composer, sound- and performance artist from Berlin.
His works deal with performative approaches and sonic spatiality with different systems.
Musically fluctuating between experimental electronic and classical music, noise and avant-garde pop. Benefiting from his classical training in composition, piano and electroacoustic music at hmt Leipzig and mdw Vienna.Through a variety of collaborations, he has been able to gain experience in a wide range of disciplines.He has written music and sound design for film, theatre, installations, performances and concerts, as well as created own performances and musical concepts.

Recently Ben Meerwein's sound design and musical compositions together with Alex Röser Vatiché for Marcos Morau's Notte Morricone (2024) for the italian company Aterballetto combines dance, live orchestral music and electronics. The piece received the Premio Danza & Danza 2024 for best italian production. His latest work for the dance performance Breather (2025) by Stephan Herwig explores doom metal and noise textures in a 6.2 multi-channel setup at Schwere Reiter in Munich. Since 2024 he has been working with Larissa Hertweck (aka. Lorelei) in their Duo In Armor, crafting genre fluid songs with a music-theatrical touch and poetic language and Madrigals (2023/24) a narrative electroacoustic composition for ambisonic systems, which won the first audience award at Soundcinema Festival Düsseldorf and received artistic funding by Goethe Institut London. Currently he composed the music for Marcos Morau's Wunderkammer (2025) together with the catalan composer and sounddesigner Clara Aguilar for Staatsballet Berlin at Komische Oper Berlin.

His works have been shown at the Roma Europa Festival, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, ZKM Karlsruhe, Théâtre d’Orléans, Schwere Reiter Munich, Kantine am Berghain, Iklectic London, Komische Oper Berlin and Ruhrfestspiele among others.

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