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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. He studied composition 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 and audiovisual media, theatre, installations, performances and concerts, as well as created own performances and musical concepts.
Since 2023 he has been collaborating with Larissa Hertweck (aka. Lorelei) in their Duo In Armor, crafting genre fluid songs with a music-theatrical touch 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 for their show at IKLECTIC London.
He created sound and music for several contemporary dance performaces in the free-scene, like Breather (2025) by Stephan Herwig, in which he explores doom metal and noise textures in a 6.2 multi-channel setup at Schwere Reiter in Munich or Glitch Choir by Deva Schubert, premiered at Rheinbeckhallen Berlin. But also choreographed and developed his own performances like O with the support of Tanztendenz München.
From 2024 on he started to create music and sounddesign for several pieces by the spanish choreographer Marcos Morau (La Veronal): Notte Morricone (2024) for the italian company Aterballetto, which combines dance, live orchestral music and electronics. The piece received the Premio Danza & Danza for best italian production 2024. Wunderkammer, together with composer and sounddesigner Clara Aguilar at Staatsballet Berlin (2025). Cold Song with Göteborgs Dance Company (2026), and Svatbata with the Ballet de Genéve at Grand Théâtre de Genéve (2026), for which he collaborated together with the composer/producer Alex Vatiché. They travelled together to the Rhodopy Mountains in Bulgaria for artistic research and worked together with the berlin based choir Bulgarian Voices Berlin.
Recently he created his first experimental shortfilm "WELL WELL WELL" together with visual artist Stella Horta, which was premiered in June 26 at Waking Life Festival in Portugal.
Other venues where his work was presented include: Roma Europa Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Berghain Kantine, Komische Oper Berlin, Maison de la Danse Lyon, Festpielhaus St. Pölten, Ruhrfestspiele, Kuopio Dance Festival, among others.
