Alex Buess

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Alex Buess (born May 31, 1954 in Basel ) is a Swiss musician , saxophonist , composer and producer .

Life

Buess worked with Stephan Wittwer , Paul Schütze, Kevin Martin, Peter Brötzmann , William Parker , Raoul Björkenheim , Toshinori Kondō , Bill Laswell , Kevin Shields ( My Bloody Valentine ), Tim Hodgkinson , Michael Wertmüller and Daniel Buess from the field of improvisation, the Electronics, electroacoustic music and composition together. He played in the groups Ice, God , Phantom City, The Bug, Sprawl, Cortex and with his own group 16-17 .

He has written compositions for ensembles of contemporary music and also works as a producer, sound engineer and at times as sound engineer for Swiss radio SRF . He worked as a studio technician for the labels Virgin , Island , Big Cat . He has been composing for contemporary music ensembles since 1989 . For example, works for the Ensemble Modern , the Xasax Saxophone Quartet or the Ensemble Phoenix Basel were created . Characteristic for Buess' compositions are sometimes dense, polyrhythmic and polymetric layers of sound, the sounds of which are amplified and processed with live electronics.

Buess received the years of work from the Basel-Stadt Music Credit Commission (1992) and the Robert Thyll-Dürr Foundation (1998). His studies include electronics , acoustics , musicology , phonetics , semantics, and composition .

Appearances and performances took place at the festivals Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival ( England ), Rostrum for Electroacoustic Music ( Austria : Swiss contribution 1997 Radio DRS), Tampere Festival ( Finland ), Musique Action Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy ( France ), Taktlos (Switzerland: 1993/95/96/2003), Tonart Festival 2000 (Switzerland), Lucerne Festival 2005 (Switzerland), Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 ( Germany ), Festival de Musica Contemporanea in Quito ( Ecuador ), Encuentro de Compositores Bolivianos ( Bolivia ), Warsaw Autumn 2006 ( Poland ), Days for New Music Zurich 2013 (Switzerland) and in Japan , Australia and China .

Buess' work includes improvisation , live electronics , composition, film music , new mixing and production techniques, and computer music .

Works (small selection)

  • Ata-7 for saxophone, electronics and percussion
  • Khat for bass flute, percussion and live electronics
  • Parallax A for large ensemble and 5-channel band
  • X_Syn_Drome_1 for soprano , percussion, live electronics and band
  • Metatron's cube for clarinet , trombone , e-violin , e-cello, AMP-K-bass and percussion
  • Phylum for solo percussion, solo electronics, ensemble and live electronics
  • Ghosts of Schizophonia for double ensemble and live electronics

Discographic notes

  • Ice with Kevin Martin, Dave Cochrane, John Jobaggy, Justin Broadrick and Alex Buess. Title: Under The Skin . Label: Pathological GB (1993)
  • Sprawl Title: Sprawl with Michael Wertmüller, Peter Brötzmann, Alex Buess, Stephan Wittwer and William Parker. Label: Trost, A (1997)
  • 16-17, title: Gyatso , label: Pathological GB (1993), reedition 2008: Savageland Records
  • God, Title: The Anatomy of Addiction , Label: Big Cat GB, USA (1994)
  • The Bug, Title: Tapping the Conversation with Kevin Martin, Dave Cochrane, Simon Hopkins, Label: Wordsound USA (1995)
  • Phantom City, Title: Site Anubis with Paul Schütze, Raoul Björkenheim, Alex Buess, LolCoxhill, Bill Laswell and Dirk Wachtelaer, Label: Big Cat GB (1996)
  • Phantom City, Title: Shiva Recoil: Live / Unlive at Tampere Jazz Festival, Finland. Label: Virgin UK (1997)
  • Xasax Saxophone Quartet: Composition: Hyperbaton , CD Erol 7019 Xasax with works by Donatoni, Xenakis, Cage, Aperghis, Wolpe, Buess, Essel and Rzewski.
  • Ensemble Phoenix Basel Repulsion : compositions by Maxwell's Demon and Parallaxe A, United Phoenix Records 001. With works by Feiler, Hodgkinson and Buess.

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  1. ↑ Ice - Under The Skin. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  2. ^ Ice - Bad Blood. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  3. ^ God - The Anatomy Of Addiction. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  4. ^ Phantom City. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  5. ^ The Bug - Tapping The Conversation. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Sprawl (5) - Sprawl. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Cortex (14). In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  8. ↑ 16-17 - Gyatso. In: Discogs. Retrieved December 28, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Ata-7: (for saxophone, electronics and percussion) / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  10. ↑ Khat: bass flute, percussion & live electronics / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  11. ↑ Parallax A: for large ensemble & 5-channel band / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  12. ↑ X_Syn_Drome_1: soprano, percussion live electronics & band / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  13. ^ Metatron's cube: f. Clarinet, trombone, e-violin, e-cello, AMP-K-bass & percussion / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  14. ↑ Phylum: for solo percussion, solo electronics, ensemble & live electronics / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).
  15. ^ Ghosts of schizophonia (Phylum 2) / Alex Buess. In: permalink.snl.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2015 (music manuscript).

literature

  • Dissonanz magazine # 85 March 2004 ( online ).
  • Hans Ruprecht, Ruedi Wyss, Peter Kraut (eds.): Taktlos Musiklesebuch , Basel / Weil am Rhein 2007, ISBN 978-3-938767-35-1 .
  • Peter Kraut and Ruedi Wyss (eds.): November 13, 1980: Archie Shepp / Jasata December 20, 2006: Pan Sonic / Alter Ego. A collection of material for 580 concerts by Taktlos Bern and Tonart Bern , Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-033-01069-7 .
  • Au carrefour des mondes: Composing in Switzerland: a compendium of essays, analyzes, portraits and conversations, pages 48–54, "Laws and moods ...", Author: Andreas Fatton, Pfau-Verlag Saarbrücken, ISBN 978-3- 89727-374-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Buess, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, saxophonist, composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel