Bauer's song cycle Afterimages. A progression for voice and piano takes up Schoeck's cycle Nachhall, op. 70 and transfers it to the present day. Immediately after each song by Othmar Schoeck follows the corresponding progression by Michael Emanuel Bauer. Bauer's adaptation does not stop at the texts by Matthias Claudius and Nikolaus Lenau. In the tradition of Raymond Queneau and the Oulipo group, the texts are deconstructed in a formal-lettristic manner and reassembled.

The Zentaur-Quartett, founded in 2017, is dedicated exclusively to contemporary music. The double album String Quartets by aDevantgarde Composers is the debut release of the young ensemble, whose members are graduates of the Munich University of Music and Theatre. The works collected on this album from the years 1997-2019 are a passionate plea for the string quartet genre and open up 13 very different musical worlds. The stylistic spectrum ranges from microtonal sound pieces to compositions with late Romantic echoes.