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Thomas Österheld

About Me

I started playing improvised and contemporary music already at highschool, influenced by my teacher Jeremias Jeremias.
...studied Cultural Sciences, Aethetics and Applied Arts - music, literature, drama, philosophy, multimedia, computer music -- (Johannes Goebel, Eva Rieger, Wolfgang Roscher, philosophy with Rüdiger Bittner).
For some years teaching saxophone, improvisation, journalism at University Hildesheim, regional music schools, journalistic work.
Music for dancers, movies, radio, exhibition, theatre etc.
Played with....
Ross Barrett, Burkhard Beins, Moxi Beidenegl, Stefan Braun, Günther Christmann, Dieb 13, Dirk-Achim Dhonau, Sergio Di Leone, Bruno Euen, Corinna Eikmeier, Ele Grimm, Nikolaus Gerszewski, Heinz-Erich Goedecke, Nils Gerold, Nikolaus Gerzewski, Michael Haase, Anett Herrmann, Mauretta Heinzelmann, Georgia Ch. Hoppe, Jutta Hoppe, Peter Imig, Ellen Kienhorst, Stefan Kiraly, Robert Klammer, Achilles Kougioumtzis, Nicola Kruse, Claude Laurion, Paul Lovens, Wittwulf Y Malik, Radu Malfatti, Birgit Maschke, Ignatio Mendez, Heiner Metzger, Jürgen Morgenstern-Feise, Donghee Nam, Helmut Neumann, Sylvia Necker, Mathieu Ponroy, Krischa Weber, Heinz Weber, Hainer Wörmann, Hannes Wienert, Michael Renkel, Julian Schaefer, Heino Sellhorn, Turist, Ove Volquartz, Thomas Wasiliszcak, Christian Wolff etc. ...
[etc. ...]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/22/2007
Band Website: http://www.thomasoesterheld.de
Band Members:

current projects.../ensemble settings

Hunderttausend heulende Höllenhunde, TonArt Ensemble ,
Wibbly Wobbly Orchestra...

Sounds Like: ... I am trying to both reflect this beautiful dark and real warm clarinet sound of classical players like Henry Bok and Harry Sparney, also using controlled multiphonics effects, slap tongue, singing hissing vocabulary from contemporary music -- but on the other hand I also love the more edgy, jazzy Eric Dolphy - David Murray school. To name a few others Michel Portal, Gunther Hampel, Michael Pilz, John Surman, Benni Maupin, Harry Carney, Bob Mintzer, James Carter, Steve Buckley, Andy Biskin, Dai Pritchard, Don Byron, Julian Siegel, Captain Beefheart, Peter Broetzmann, etc.

Record Label: Bad Alchemy, Creative Source (2008...)

My Blog

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film music... ..  
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:18:00 GMT