Andreas Gerth

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Andreas Gerth (also known as loopspool and schege ; * 1958 in Leipzig ) is a German musician, composer and visual artist. His musical productions fall into the areas of electronica , dub , jazz and experimental electronics. As a graphic artist, he has designed numerous album covers for the bands The Notwist , Tied & Tickled Trio , Potawatomi and for the Trikont label in Munich . He lives and works in Berlin.

biography

Andreas Gerth grew up in Leipzig and Rostock and in 1976 moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic. From 1987–92 he studied sculpture and fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Eduardo Paolozzi . In 1992 he joined the Weilheim music scene and founded the band Ogonjok. His interest in electronic sound generation and dub led to the founding of the Tied & Tickled Trio in 1996 with Markus and Micha Acher ( The Notwist ), the saxophonist Johannes Enders and the drummer Christoph Brandner . Andreas Gerth embodies the electronic side, which contrasts the orientation of the band on jazz of the 60s and 70s. From 1996 solo releases, remixes and productions followed for the radio play and media art department of the Bavarian Broadcasting under the name "loopspool". Gerth also worked with various musicians and artists. These include a. Ted Milton ( Blurt ), with whom he played in a Dub Elektronic / Spoken Word Duo from 1999–2002, the radio play author Andreas Ammer , for whose “Speech Opera for Karl Valentin ” he recorded the electronics, and Martin Gretschmann ( Console ) with whom he played several Electronic pieces published or the musician Sam Shackleton , with whom he composed the introductory piece "part 1" for the album "Music for the Quiet Hour". Since 2013 Andreas Gerth has been publishing music for modular systems, among others in the Driftmachine project , together with the musician Florian Zimmer (Saroos). His interest in self-generating patches was first shown in the sound installation “Äther Akustik” (2014/15) and on the album “Eis Heauton” (2015). In 2016 he and Martin Gretschmann built the golden composition machine as a sound-generating modular system for the interactive radio play " Infinite Game ", based on David Foster Wallace 's novel " Infinite Fun " in collaboration with Andreas Ammer and the WDR .

Discography (selection)

Ogonyok
Tied & Tickled Trio
  • s / t (1998, Morr Music )
  • EA1 EA2 (1999, Morr Music)
  • Curry Park (1999, Domino Records )
  • EA1 EA2 RMX (2000, Morr Music)
  • Electric Avenue Tapes (2001, Clearspot )
  • Observing Systems (2003, Morr Music)
  • ARC (2006, Morr Music)
  • Aelita (2008, Morr Music)
  • La Place Demon (2011, Morr Music)
Ted Milton + Loopspool
  • Oh Pity Us! (1999, house music)
  • Sublime (2000, Charhizma / house music)
Andreas Gerth / Loopspool
  • Midfoot moderator (on "Do you think that I'll be different when you're through?", 2001, house music)
  • Red (on "Günther Koch Revisited" 2001, Intermedium Records )
  • Different Cars And Trains, Loopspool Version (on The Notwist "Different Cars And Trains", 2002, Domino Records )
  • Living room (on "one word one sound" 2002, Intermedium Records)
  • Moontrain (on ISO68 "Here / There Played By", 2003, house music)
  • Standing in the Rain, The first Good Bye, Good Bye Dub, Rain Reprise (on "wake up. Re: lax" 2003, Intermedium Records)
  • Listen to what's coming in from outside (on "Heinz K. from H." 2005, sediment )
  • The euphemistic treadmill (with console, on "You can't always listen to house music" 2006, house music)
  • Graindead (with console, on "You can't always listen to Hausmusic" 2006, Hausmusik)
  • Can't Beat Blimm (with Ted Milton, on "You can't always listen to Hausmusik" 2006, Hausmusik)
  • Accelerated disintegration. Piano Destruction Concert 1966. Remix (2008, Intermedium Records)
  • The vortex of history pulls us away with it ... Music for the installation “Monument FR II” by Moritz Götze (2009, Hasenverlag )
  • Music For The Quiet Hour, part 1 (2012, Woe To The Septic Heart)
  • Das Sichelein, setting from " Des Knaben Wunderhorn " for the exhibition of the same name by the artist Moritz Götze, Jena Art Collection , 2015
Drift machine
  • Nocturnes (2014, Umor Rex )
  • Ice Heauton (2015, Umor Rex)
  • Eis Heauton (2016, Hallow Ground)
  • Colliding Contours (2016, Umor Rex)
  • Shunter (2018, Umor Rex)
  • Driftmachine plays Marien van Oers (2019, Ongehoord)

Exhibitions

  • 2009 "The vortex of history carries us away", sound installation for "Monument Friedrich II." By the artist Moritz Götze
  • 2014 and 2015 “Aether Acoustics”, sound installation for the exhibition “The Mechanical Corps. In the footsteps of Jules Verne ”, curated by Peter Lang and Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin and Hartware Medienkunstverein , Dortmund
  • 2016 Composition machine for “Infinite Game”, radio play based on David Foster Wallace's novel “Infinite Fun” in collaboration with Andreas Ammer, Martin Gretschmann and WDR, in the foyer of the K20 Museum in Düsseldorf
  • 2018 “The conviction as prison”, audio piece for the Nietzsche Center Naumburg as part of an exhibition by the artist Moritz Götze
  • 2019 “Scapa Flow”, sound installation as part of an exhibition by the artist Moritz Götze, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Wilhelmine fleet. Naval Museum Wilhelmshaven
  • 2019 “Electroaccoustic Spaceways”, sound installation as part of the exhibition “Space is the Place” at Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin, together with Andreas Ammer and Martin Gretschmann ( Acid Pauli ).

Awards

personal data
SURNAME Gerth, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES loopspool; schege
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig