Adelhard Roidinger
Adelhard Roidinger (born November 28, 1941 in Windischgarsten , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian jazz musician ( bass , electronics ), composer and computer graphic artist.
Live and act
Roidinger, who comes from a family of musicians, first learned the piano, violin and guitar. He only started playing the double bass when he was sixteen . From 1960 to 1967 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz as well as double bass and jazz composition at the University of Music there .
Since 1969 Roidinger played as bassist with Joachim Kühn and Eje Thelin , then with Karl Berger and from 1971 to 1975 in Hans Koller's Free Sound . With Alan Skidmore , Gerd Dudek and Lala Kovačev he founded the European Jazz Consensus in 1976 , which also recorded the albums Four for Slavia and Morning Rise ; with Kovačev, Allan Praskin and John D. Thomas then the International Jazz Consensus was formed . In Austria 3 , which also formed the core of his ECM album Schattseite (1981), he played with Harry Pepl and Werner Pirchner . He also worked a. a. with Herbert Joos , Albert Mangelsdorff , Yōsuke Yamashita , George Russell , Maria João , Anthony Braxton , Georg Weidinger , Tone Janša and Melanie Bong . After completing additional training at IRCAM Paris, his musical field of activity ranges from free jazz to appearances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computers and visual components.
After working as a lecturer in cybernetic design (Graz University of Technology since 1976), Roidinger taught at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz ; he headed its jazz department since 1988 and since 1994 also the department for music and media technology at the same university. He has written teaching works for double bass (1980) and electric bass (1981) as well as a comprehensive publication on jazz improvisation and pentatonic (1984). He also worked on the development of new sounds based on microtonality .
Prizes and awards
In 1988 he was awarded the Ernst Koref Composition Prize for his computer composition Siamesic Sinfonia . In 1997 he received the regional culture award for music of the state of Upper Austria as a musician "who can no longer be classified into the conventional clichés of E and U and precisely for this reason represents a signal for the future."
Discography (selection)
- Hans Koller: Kunstkopfindianer (with Wolfgang Dauner , Zbigniew Seifert and Janusz Stefański , 1974)
- Schattseite (with Aina Kemanis , Heinz Sauer , W. Pirchner, H. Pepl and Michael Di Pasqua , 1982)
- Computer Jazz Project I (with Peter Gröning and Gerhard Laber, 1984)
- Anthony Braxton: 6 Compositions (1989, with Tony Oxley )
- Lines (with Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser , 1990–94)
- electronic access composition / improvisation / interaction (1995/1996)
- European Jazz Ensemble: 25th Anniversary (with Charlie Mariano , Conny Bauer , Ali Haurand , Daniel Humair and others, 2002)
- Andy Lumpp & Adelhard Roidinger: Parusia (2019)
Lexical entry
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 2: M – Z (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16513). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 .
- Entry in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online, accessed: January 1, 2020
Web links
- Works by and about Adelhard Roidinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Adelhard Roidinger Music Information Center Austria
- Web presence
- Adelhard Roidinger at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jury member Wolfgang Winkler, quoted in according to Kunzler, Jazz-Lexikon .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roidinger, Adelhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Windischgarsten , Upper Austria |