about

Ben Meerwein is a composer, sound- and performance artist based in 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 computer music at hmt Leipzig and mdw Wien.

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) combines dance, live orchestral music and electronics. 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. 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.

His works have been shown at the Roma Europa Festival, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, ZKM Karlsruhe, Théâtre d’Orléans, Schwere Reiter Munich, Iklectic London, Feÿ Arts Festival and Ruhrfestspiele among others.