Ignaz Schick's electronic work has gone through different phases of instrumentation from simple bedroom tape collages & vinyl manipulations via md field recordings to hard & software samplers. Over the years his scepticism towards digital technology and computers has grown and in parallel has his collection of little sound making objects. "Objets trouvés" which he has used in many different musical contexts. Within the last two years the turntable came back to interest as a simple, fast and reactive interface and it was a small but important step to leave the (own) history of sampling/plunderphonics for exploring the machine in its most direct and basic way: a rotating plate with its surface creates friction and makes objects vibrate and resonate. An immense cosmos of sound opening up - the quality depending on material, surface, speed and the way it is amplified. Turntable as a direct sound source and not necessarily only a machine of reproduction.
1998 he founded Edition Zangi, in 2000 the label Zarek. He has organized & produced many events, concert series & international festivals of experimental music in Berlin and elsewhere. Also he worked as guest curator for different organizations (Garage Stralsund, Staatsbank Berlin, Freunde Guter Musik Berlin, Ausland Berlin, ...) From early 2004 til 2007 he worked as sales manager for Staalplaat Amsterdam/Berlin.
Numerous festival appearances & international tours to Austria, the Balkans, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA (...) & he was commissioned for various radio productions (DRS II, BR II, ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeit-Ton, DLF, DLR, Radio Copernicus, WDR 3, ...)
Founder/member of PERLONEX, BLINDSNAKES, PETIT PALE, PHOSPHOR, DECOLLAGE 3, SNAKE FIGURES ARKESTRA and work in duo with Chris Abrahams (AUS), Thomas Ankersmit (NL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), The Haters (USA), Jacek Staniszewski (PL), Dawid Szczesny (PL) & Martin Tetreault (CAN), Marcel Türkowsky (D), Wolfram, ...
Furthermore he has collaborated with
Zoro Babel, Serge Baghdassarian, Boris Baltschun, Mathias Bauer, Claus Van Bebber, Alexei Borisov, Alessandro Bosetti, Marc Boukouya, Tony Buck, Nicholas Bussmann, Mathieu Chamagne, Xavier Charles, Don Cherry, Mike Cooper, Anla Courtis, Yannick Dauby, Matt Davis, Rhodri Davies, Jim Denley, Dieb13, Dietmar Diesner, Phil Durrant, Andrea Ermke, Jason Forrest, Steven Garling, John Hegre, Peter Hollinger, Philip Jeck, Bernd Jestram, Coti K, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Dominik Kowalczyk, Borut Krzisnik, Christoph Kurzmann, Kalle Laar, Keenan Lawler, Ronald Lippock, Greg Malcolm, Stephan Mathieu, Michael Northam, Ivan Palacky, Charlemagne Palestine, Anthony Pateras, Jim Pepper, Robert Piotrowicz, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Keith Rowe, Olaf Rupp, Bob Rutman, Stol, Martin Tetreault, Torben Tilly, Sebi Tramontana, Roger Turner, Nikos Veliotis, Sabine Vogel, Volz, Jenny Ward, Mark Wastell, Wu Wei, Marc Weiser, Stevie Wishart, ...
