Born in 1980. Essay "How is language grounded while shouting if decisions aren't rooted in flesh". First texts for a collection of poems entitled "Rats = Arts = Star".
1981-83: Installation "Cream cheese is the new fat". Compositions on the topic "The deconstructive potential of German pop songs" for treble voice solo.
1982: Preparation of the ready-mades "Soli Deo Gloria I-III".
From 1983 on: Permanent exhibition of the first two ready-mades "Brother I & II".
1985: The permanent exhibition gets extended by the ready-made "The only sister".
1986: Installation "Mother fat - I am the dirt and the good".
1987: "Variations on "Are you sleeping"" for three guitars and an obligatory speaker.
1988-91: Various compositions for guitar and synthesizer. "Rats = Arts = Star No. 1" is published.
From 1991 on: Project "Cesspit pools and pun remnants drinks are the future of digital music".
1992-96: Treatises on the importance of the length of breath of Leibniz, Kant, Hegel and Heidegger. Project "Bread sausages must grow".
1993: Retrospective "Lungs blood torrents or: The revolution of the cream cheese".
1994-95: Etudes for violin, Sonata I and II for piano, String quartet No. 1.
1996: Performance "The secret subversion of black & white painting". Sound installation "Adversary" for Death Metal Band and glass toys.
1997: Essay and collection of poems on "The essence of the absurd". Exhibition "Post surrealism takes itself as provisions". Treatises on the auto destructivity of language and conscience.
1998: Project "Herbie Nichols Revival Orchestra". Installation of the first "Cesspit pool", later extended by the "Urine slide" and the "Faeces tower".
1999-2000: Composition lessons from Georg Hajdu. Papers on the radical constructivism. "Spaces" for solo clarinet and a collection of poems with the same title. Various compositions on poems by Charles Baudelaire for wind players, chorus and obligatory computer. First algorithmic compositions. Installation "Mucking Felt & Fucking Melt".
From 2000 on: Studies of philosophy, musicology and linguistics in Cologne.
2000-02: Essay "Tradition in Neo-Platonism". Performance "The miserable death of feminism". Essay "Phenomenology of monetary errors".
From 2003 on: Project "Aspects of erotic miniaturisation of pets".
2004: Various concepts of improvisation for voice, guitar, synthesizer and drums. "Cesspit pool II" is developed. Installation of the "Decaying sauna landscape".
2005: Composition polemic "Antistructure". Poetry cycle "Beginning, decline or detour?" Retrospective "Is rotten cream cheese as tasty as rancid fat?"
2006: Sound installation "Schrotschusstherapie" for computerized analogue synthesizers.
2007: CDR "Rats = Arts = Star" on BlackGapDeathTrap.
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Dancing LinesCDR "Rats = Arts = Star" out now! Promo: "“Rats=Arts=Star“ is the debut album of Cologne based computer musician Sebastian Hammerschmidt. His sonic excursions focus on the mathematics of electronic glitch sounds, which are interfused with melodic interludes, noisy breakdowns and strange rhythmic developments. Although Hammerschmidt’s compositions and improvisations show an interest in academic sound research, they never get into the rut of becoming to complicated or even dogmatic. His tracks always have a catchy side, sometimes they even sound like electronically deconstructed pop songs. However they still retain an otherwordly abstractness constituted by unusual harmonic structures, playful arrangements and weird digital textures.
“Rats=Arts=Star†should definitely appeal to people who like the works of Belgian soundcrafters Tuk and KöHN or even the scientific experiments of laptop wizard Florian Hecker." www.blackgapdeathtrap.com /
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