Member Since: 7/13/2007
Band Members: Teresa Hackel, Ronni Gilla, Ludovic Fresse, Ulli Bartel, Harri Sjöström, Akira Ando, Thomas Rehnert, Jens Reulecke, Nathalie Ponneau, Mathias Heßler, Mathieu Pé, Nobuyasu Furulya, Wolfgang Schliemann, Hans Schneider, Marei Seuthe, Guido Conen, Gernot Bogumil, Martin Zierold, Melitta Bubalo ......
Influences: Peter und der Wolf, Beethoven, Reich&Riley, Ornette Coleman, Mozart, Cecil Taylor, L. Shankar, Billy Bang, Ligeti, Anton Webern, Franco Evangelisti, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Kurzeck, Paul Nizon, "Amsel, Drossel, Fink und Star", Olivier Messiaen, Bach, Louise Bourgeois, Virginia Woolf, The Sounds and the Lights of BIG Cities, The appearing, changing changing and disapearing of various Sounds and the Light of High Mountain Landscape (for example), water in any way of apearance and disappearance, stones of any size and any colour, the work of Ulrike Ottinger, the work of James Benning, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, very much Malcolm Goldstein, the bow-work of bassplayer Sirone, the music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg and again Anton Webern, the writings of Friedrich Schiller, Imanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Th.W. Adorno, Ror Wolf, Ernst Jandl, H.C Artmann, Pier Paolo Pasolini, the improvisations and compositions of Duke Ellington, Vinko Globokar, and most of all Thomas Wiedermann, Thomas Wiedermann and again Thoms Wiedermann, but also the sound of languages I don't understand, Free Jazz of Albert Ayler, Don Cerry, Charlie Haden, childensongs from all over world,...I like very much Silence, The Transition from Silence to Sound, the transition from sound to silence, the sound of my very old bike, the sounds of Tinguely, the writings of Schopenhauer, the music of Tristan Honsinger, the blues, irish fiddling, indian music, free jazz, Zweite Wiener Schule, somehow Steve Lacy. and again Thomas Wiedermann, and Misha Mengelberg of course, Thelonious Monk aswell, the dancing and singing of Klara Meissner, but after all Thomas Wiedermann and Malcolm Goldstein, who have impressed me and influenced me deeply. Two people who always have focused on and emphasized the art of free improvisation...
Sounds Like: I try to sound like...myself...
Record Label: creativsources
Type of Label: Indie