Jörg Mainka is a composer who made room for his dreams.
In Mainka's case, his theoretical work cannot be separated from his composing: the one is unthinkable without the other. His efforts at conceptualization are aimed exclusively at recognizing and examining connections, where "examining" means a constant effort to relate each laboriously discovered concept to an idea. For Mainka, examination is a lively discourse conducted from different directions and unexpected angles; and theory, rather than distorting the act of composition, still less functioning as its opposite, serves as a point of departure and a destination.
It is a fortunate state of affairs – and not only for his students, because Mainka's compositions express his enduring delight in playfulness.

Roberto Baiocco: flute / Ruth Eberhard: voice / Matthias Dahms: percussion / Michel Ackermann: toy trumpet / Rainer R. Lorenz: piano, tone control / SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Trompetenklasse Reinhold Friedrich / Sylvain Cambreling: conductor / Ensemble Modern / Kasper de Roo: conductor / Ensemble für Neue Musik der Musikhochschule Karlsruhe / Peter Eötvös: conductor / Ein Kammerensemble / Kunihiro Ochi: conductor / Almuth Hett: violoncello / Markus Tillier: violoncello / Andreas Schuler: violoncello / Bernd Hammrich: violoncello / László Hudacsek: percussion / Nils Tannert: percussion / Christian Rieger: speaker, performer / Mathias Becker: percussion