About Me
musician-performer-composer living in Berlin/Germany
this site is dedicated to my computer-generated work!
percussion:
combining modern set-drumming and experimental setups with traditional/classical orchestral percussion-equipment and technique
research with tools out of the everydays-life-field, instruments and electronics, live-recording and processing...//
composition/production/scoring:
"nothing is sacred/everything is sacred" or: "less style more content"//
performance:
coming from experimental Art-Rock in the late 80ies ('89 debut with "Brother Virus" in the "oldschool" NYC clubs "Knitting Factory"and "CBGBs"); experimenting with Jazz, classical composition, improvisation and the genuine folklore of south eastern europe (Romania and Bulgaria) in the 90ies;
Since '00 focus on the thing that I would like to name "progressive-experimental-trash": combining non-domesticated raw energy of Art-Rock (but without the hardcore-noise dogma), Improvisation (but without the purist's only sound allowed-principle) and Electronics (only laptops on stage are rather boring) with the natural intellectual background of New/Contemporary Music (but without that certain smell of black turtle-necks).
Last but not least there is a certain love for performative humour- and trash-elements coming from the "cultivated dillettants"-area. //
Recently working as:
steady percussionist for the ensemble "Zeitkratzer"(artist in residence at the Donaufestival Krems/Austria and guest-ensemble at the Volksbuehne Berlin) and stage music composer/musical director for Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubuehne Berlin. //
own projects:
since '03 "3D" with Christopher Dell and Chris Dahlgren, since '98 Interzone together with co-founder Mircea Tiberian, since '07 "Lo-Leg&Bo-Leg" with Antonio Palesano, new projects with a singer/songwriter from France and an actress from Germany in preparation
Solo works with Electronics and acoustic percussion //
others:
collaboration with dancers/choreographs (past collaborations with: Sascha Waltz, Mili Bitterli, Constanza Macras, Angela Meindl, Lucia Kasiarova...) esp. in mixed discipline-productions (Theater, dance, music)//
works with/for digital tools and mixed electronic-acoustic settings,
collaboration with video-arists: Lillevan, Sebastien Dupouey //
some artistic references:
Ensemble Zeitkratzer, Rechenzentrum, Herb Robertson, Keiji Haino, Arto Lindsay, Alvin Lucier, Norris Jones aka Sirone, Wilbert de Joode, Tim Berne, Gary Thomas, Alvin Curren, Ivo Papasov, Terre Thaemlitz, Manuel Göttsching, Carsten Nikolai aka Alva Noto, Mircea Tiberian, Franz Hautzinger...
some venue references:
Volksbühne Berlin, Schaubühne Berlin, the old Knitting Factory NYC, CBGB's NYC, Münchener Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien, Akademie der Künste Berlin, HdkdW Berlin, Expo Hannover, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Biennale Zagreb, Genf »Archipel«, Göteborg »Sound Art«, Donaufestival Krems, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Essener Philharmonie, Philharmonie Madrid, Les Musiques Festival Marseille, Serpentine Gallery London, Athens Festival, Jazz Institut Darmstadt, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Salamanca Festival, Disgressions Barcelona, Theatro-Festival Napoli, Theatre National de Chaillot Paris...
for more information about my work you may visit the following pages:
www.schaubuehne.de
www.zeitkratzer.com
www.demartinjazz.de
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