MAX WÜRDEN
*1971 / Cologne
– Musician since 1987 in various formations
– Soundtrack production since 2001
– Educated drummer
– Generates sounds from silence if necessary
– Also performs live
I work with sound as material, space and memory.
My practice moves between music, objects and installation, exploring how sound can take shape, touch matter and resonate within us.
Many works begin with field recordings from natural or urban environments, not as documentation, but as a way of listening. A slow and conscious act that reveals the presence of sound in everyday life.
Using found materials, vintage speakers and self-built sound objects, I connect past technologies with contemporary listening.
My compositions and installations create spaces of resonance between nature and technology, silence and presence.
They invite the listener to pause and rediscover the world through sound.
AWARDS
– PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD 2010 / best soundtrack / nominated with the soundtrack from BLUFF / CHRISTIAN FISCHER
– winner of 1live PLAN B radioplay competition 2008 with LUCID DREAMS / CHRISTOPH ZACHARIAE
RELEASES on
A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE / BINE MUSIC / EL MUELLE RECORDS / EXPONATE / FARFIELD RECORDS / KOMPAKT RECORDS / NURNICHTNUR / OIGOVISIONES / RHOD RECORDS / SCHALTKREIS / TINITUS HÖRSPIELE / TONATOM / TRAUM SCHALLPLATTEN / UNKNOWN TONE RECORDS
STATIONS
2025
– Still in progress RAUSCHKASSETTE / RoN SCHMIDT & MAX WÜRDEN
– Exhibition WALDEMPFÄNGER / INTERNATIONALE WALDAUSSTELLUNG / LTK4 / Cologne
– Exhibition LIEBLICHES HIRNKNISTERN – KREATIVIMPULSEMPFANGVORRICHTUNGEN / NICO e.V. / Cologne
– Track on POP AMBIENT 2026 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2024
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2025 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2023
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2024 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
– Release of the album LANDMARK / A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE / USA
– Exhibition WALDEMPFÄNGER / BOHDE FENSTER / NICO e.V. / Cologne
2022
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2023 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2021
– Release of the album SCRIPT / OIGOVISIONES / Spain
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2022 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2020
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2021 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
– Exhibition WALDEMPFÄNGER / GALERIE LINDEMANN / Cologne
2019
– Release of the album FORMAT / A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE / USA
– Release of the album GEN / RHOD RECORDS / Spain
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2020 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2018
– Exhibition 12 APOSTEL / RoN SCHMIDT & MAX WÜRDEN / MUSEUM GOCH / Goch
– Release of the album ALL OF A SUDDEN by PEPO GALAN & MAX WÜRDEN
UNKNOWN TONE RECORDS / USA
– Release of the album MOMENTUM / EL MUELLE RECORDS / Spain
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2019 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2017
– Release of the album FEINHERB by WÜRDEN & PFEIFFER / HEADTRACTIVE
– Track by WÜRDEN & PFEIFFER on POP AMBIENT 2018 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
– Release of the EP JUST A WAVE AWAY / limited edition
– Track by WÜRDEN & PFEIFFER on TOUR DE TRAUM XIII / TRAUM SCHALLPLATTEN / Cologne
– Soundtrackproduction for DERAILED / feature film by THORSTEN NESCH / Canada
2016
– Release of the album TRANSIT / BINEMUSIC
– Tracks on POP AMBIENT 2017 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
2015
– Release of the album RETOUR / EXPONATE / KOMPAKT / Cologne
curated by WOLFGANG VOIGT
– Track on POP AMBIENT 2016 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
– Release of the album 55:55 by SCHMIDT + WÜRDEN / BERSLTON
– Release of the Book-Sound NOSTROMO / TINNITUS RADIOPLAYS BERLIN
2014
– Track on POP AMBIENT 2015 / KOMPAKT RECORDS / Cologne
– Release of the EP UNDER OLD EARTH / a cooperation with FREYA GUSTAVA / GB
2013
– Soundtrackproduction WARE FRAU / documentary / ARD / NINDO FILMS
– Release of the album WIR HABEN DIE WELT SCHON GERETTET by SCHMIDT + WÜRDEN
2012
– Release of the album OR LOST / FARFIELD RECORDS / GB
– Release of the Book-Sounds LOK & TRANSFER / TINNITUS RADIOPLAYS BERLIN
– Soundtrackproduction HARRAS OFFICE / short film by YVETTE KRAUSE
2011
– Release of the album MI RACCOMANDO
– Soundtrackproduction DER ZUSCHAUER / a short film by CHRISTIAN FISCHER
2010
– PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD / nominated with the soundtrack from BLUFF
2009
– Soundtrackproduction SENDER 77 and BLUFF / CHRISTIAN FISCHER
2008
– Soundtrackproduction VIRUS UNDEAD / feature film / WOLF WOLFF
– Soundtrackproduction LUCID DREAMS / documentary / 10 shorts / realisation CHRISTOPH ZACHARIAE
2007
– Soundtrackproduction SISTERS OF NO MERCY / documentary / LUKAS ROEGLER
2006
– Soundtrackproduction LUDGERS FALL / feature film / WOLF WOLFF
2005
– Release of the album URBAN ELECTRONIC POETRY / SCHALTKREIS COLOGNE
A cooperation with 14 authors and 9 musicians
2002
– Release of the album ORTLOS / FARFIELD RECORDS / GB
Since 1994
– Active in sound design, film music, ambient and experimental music production
1987 – 1994
– Drummer and guitarist in many different bands.