Andreas Paolo Perger

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Andreas Paolo Perger plays Gravur / Gravure in the Zionskirche Berlin (July 2014).
Andreas Paolo Perger plays Gravur / Gravure in the Zionskirche Berlin, August 21, 2014. Five movements, duration: 43 min.

Andreas Paolo Perger (* 1970 in Munich ) is an Austrian guitarist , improviser and composer with German - Polish and Austro - Italian descent. His work is characterized by dealing with the electric guitar and the classical concert guitar in improvisation, interpretation and composition.

Live and act

Installation of concert for 5.1 surround guitar at Tonspur_live, Vienna 2007.
Andreas Paolo Perger concert for 5.1 surround guitar at Tonspur_live, Vienna 2007. One movement, duration: 39.55 min

Born as an Austrian in Munich, Andreas Paolo Perger grew up there and in Bozen . From the age of seven he received guitar lessons.

After studying jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he studied interpretation with Barbara Probst-Polášek at the Munich Conservatory, improvisation and composition with Joe Pass , John McLaughlin , John Scofield and Mike Stern , Evan Parker , Wolfgang Stryi and Frederic Rzewski . In addition, he conducted free studies in video art and electronic music. He also works as a studio guitarist for film and television and designed soundtracks for art videos. In 1997 he was named Newcomer of the Year by the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

In the 1990s a ten CD series with his improvisations, interpretations and compositions for electric guitar and classical concert guitar was published. Concerts and performances with musicians from classical music, jazz and experimental music took place. Compositions with new media were created. In addition to the classical concert guitar, Perger uses the self-developed 5.1 surround guitar instead of the electric guitar and opened up to sound art and installation . The first spatial and interactive improvised compositions, as well as a live radio broadcast ( surround > stereo ), took place in 2002.

The module-based improvised composition Concert for 5.1 Surround Guitar not only visually represents such a transitional form between guitar concert and installation. In terms of sound, an acoustic canvas stretches between the guitar concert and sound art and forms the methodical template for the studio album Relief .

Engraving / engraving
Improvised compositions for concert guitar have been performed weekly since July 2014 in the Zionskirche Berlin. The sound of August Orth's room, which is outstanding for a concert guitar , supports the interactive aspect of the music. In open concerts lasting several hours, new, situationally inspired composition variants develop on the basis of the starting material, which slowly changes over time. A concert excerpt can be heard in the feature film Beyond Words by Urszula Antoniak . The compositions have been published by Edition Margaux, a classical music publisher.
Andreas Paolo Perger plays concert for 5.1 surround guitar at the 4th Electric Eclectics Festival, Canada 2009
Andreas Paolo Perger plays concert for 5.1 surround guitar at the 4th Electric Eclectics Festival, Canada 2009. One movement, duration: 39.14 min
Audience at the premiere of Perger's work for orchestra 1 in the St. Johannes-Evangelist Kirche Berlin 2013
Work for orchestra 1 - an interactive work creation
The work was premiered in the St. Johannes-Evangelist Kirche Berlin in June 2013. In this improvised composition, Perger adapted his method for a large ensemble. As the title of the composition indicates, the work contains interactive sections: the audience more or less consciously shapes the course of the work.
The cast consisted of Klaus Janek (kb, e), Antonis Anissegos (e-kl), Biliana Voutchkova (from left), Hilary Jeffery (pos), Alessandra Eramo (st, e), Andreas Paolo Perger (eg, k), Hannes Lingens (sw), Audrey Chen (vc, st, e), Sabine Vogel (fl), Tobias Delius (ts), Roy Carroll (e), and Elena Kakaliagou (wh). Carlos Bustamante's documentary concert video premiered in December 2013 at the Arsenal Kino Berlin.
Work for orchestra 2 - an interactive work creation
The work was premiered in the St. Johannes Evangelist Church Berlin in June 2015.
The cast consisted of Biliana Voutchkova (from left), Klaus Janek (kb, e), Antonis Anissegos (e-kl), Hilary Jeffery (pos), Michael Thieke (kl), Alessandra Eramo (st, e), Andreas Paolo Perger ( eg, c), Yorgos Dimitriadis (sw), Audrey Chen (vc, st, e), Sabine Vogel (fl), Gunnar Geisse (laptop-g), Elena Kakaliagou (wh), Almut Kühne (st), Chris Dahlgren ( viola da gamba) and Katrin Mickiewicz (vla). The playing figures were made by Edouard Steinhauer. Alexander di Vasos drew the music during the concert. The documentary concert video was written by Carlos Bustamante.
Work for orchestra 3 - an interactive work creation
The work was premiered in the St. Elisabeth Church in Berlin on the occasion of the 36th German Evangelical Church Congress on May 26, 2017. A jury of experts awarded prizes to twenty-two works by well-known artists and musicians for presentation as part of the regional cultural program. The cultural newspaper Zeig Dich des Kirchentag writes, among other things: “The guitarist, improviser and composer Andreas Paolo Perger reflects the baroque unity of interpretation, improvisation and composition in contemporary forms. The recourse to the style and verve of Romanticism brings contemporary sound microscopy and spontaneity into moving narrative contexts. "
The cast consisted of Andreas Paolo Perger (eg, k), Alessandra Eramo (st, e), Audrey Chen (vc, st), Biliana Voutchkova (from left), Chris Dahlgren (viola da gamba), Elena Kakaliagou (wh), Emilio Gordoa (vib), Hilary Jeffery (pos), Matthias Bauer (kb), Magda Mayas (p), Michael Thieke (kl), Mia Zabelka (e-vl), Paul Schwingenschlögl (tp), Robin Hayward (tb), Roy Carroll (e), Sabine Vogel (fl). Works by the artists Jörg Laue, Antonio Panetta and Bernd Aury were on view in the immediate vicinity of the concert. The filming for the documentary concert video was directed by Carlos Bustamante. Christian Bader's sound recording.

Discography

Andreas Paolo Perger and the ICI Ensemble in the Schwere Reiter, Munich 2008. Two movements, duration: 22.56 min
  • 2011: relief. Artist Edition
  • 2008: Austria oond dee Velt in 1938. Lindo Records, Sampler Projekt 8
  • 2000: Ethnomorphocology. Fenn Music
  • 1999: Big City. Fenn Music
  • 1999: Heart Pop. Fenn Music
  • 1998: Standards. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1998: Visions in Multitrack. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1998: love in the days of cola. (1998) Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1996: Plays works by Bach, Giuliani, Torroba, Martin. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1996: Concerto for guitar and string quartet - compositions for concert guitar. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1996: Soul Man. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1996: Happiness is a warm gun. Academica / Fenn Music
  • 1996: early tapes. Academica / Fenn Music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Paolo Perger. Biography. In: db.musicaustria.at. Music Information Center Austria, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Gregor Hilden: Introduced: Andreas Perger . In: acoustic guitar . No. 3 , 1999 ( akustik-gitarre.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  3. ↑ "Perger's success is no coincidence, he manages the difficult balancing act between jazz and classical music, on the one hand relies on given compositions and on the other hand creates his own musical language from improvisations and his own compositions." Helmut Mauró , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 24, 1998
  4. ↑ “... anything but well-known classical jazz of the dripping commercial direction, but a very interesting, own and new occupation with the fusion of these actually fundamentally different types of music. Great! “Acoustic guitar 3/1999 on the CD Visions in multitrack
  5. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Münchner Kultur, April 1, 1997
  6. ↑ For him, he explains this project, “It is an obligation to get to know and understand the different styles in which the guitar lives, to have worked in them, to have followed them up to a certain point and when I feel that I know enough to let go of it again. These CDs are a kind of pool, a rucksack with what I have at the moment and what has kept me busy. ”According to Ralf Dombrowski in Süddeutsche Zeitung August 22, 1997
  7. ↑ "The renowned guitarist Andreas Paolo Perger, on the other hand, proved to be a stylistic border-crosser in front of significantly more listeners with his own works on his bright green, acoustic-electronic instrument, which one cannot put into any common drawer." Klaus Albrecht Neue Ruhr Zeitung , May 14, 2000
  8. ↑ Franz Hautzinger in an interview: I ended up with abstract music, love and I adore. In: bvz.at . BVZ Burgenländische Volkszeitung GmbH, May 25, 2016, accessed on July 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Trentino Cultura concert announcement Transart 2006 Andreas Paolo Perger / Franz Hautzinger / Helge Hinteregger, Bob Ostertag
  10. ↑ Announcement Tonspur Vienna 2007 concert for 5.1 surround guitar at the Long Night of the Museums
  11. ↑ E-mail announcement by the Munich Cultural Department , May 11, 2002
  12. ↑ Taktlos # 57 , music magazine of Bayerischer Rundfunk and Neue Musikzeitung, Bayern 2 Radio, September 6, 2002
  13. ↑ Documentation June 8, 2002
  14. ↑ “Perger's music is not only performed in a room as a sound event, but it itself creates a spatial structure that almost" folds "the given space. This space, unfolded by sound, not only creates an acoustic experience, but also a physically perceptible shift in the position of the perceiving subject. “Pierangelo Maset on concert for 5.1 surround guitar”, June 14, 2011
  15. ↑ “... it creates a new spatial sound by mapping each guitar string onto a single speaker. all six strings or loudspeakers are distributed in the room and so completely different and sometimes very fragmented audible. ” klingklong - broadcast for improvised music and new worlds of sound, Free Sender Kombinat , April 25, 2009
  16. ↑ Poster Gravur / Gravure 2014
  17. ↑ Film catalog Shot in Berlin
  18. ↑ Cinemagazin
  19. ^ Website of Edition Margaux
  20. ↑ Evening program of the premiere on June 1, 2013
  21. ^ Announcement Kulturbüro Sophien , June 2013.
  22. ^ Announcement and poster , November 2013
  23. ^ Announcement by the Kultur Büro Elisabeth Berlin
  24. ↑ Overview of the cultural program of the 36th DEKT  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirchentag.de
  25. ↑ Culture newspaper "Zeig Dich" of the 36th DEKT
  26. ^ Program of the Kulturbüro Elisabeth Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Perger, Andreas Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian guitarist, improviser and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich