Carlos Cipa

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Carlos Cipa

Carlos Cipa (born March 19, 1990 in Munich ) is a German pianist and composer . He lives and works in Munich.

life and work

At the age of six, Cipa began classical piano training, and at ten he learned to play the church organ . As a teenager he played in various bands , but not on the piano , but on the drums . Already at this time he dealt with different musical styles and returned to the piano as the main instrument. In addition, he gradually approached composition and improvisation . He finally studied classical composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater in his hometown, but without completing his studies.

With his debut album The Monarch And The Viceroy , which he released in June 2012 at the age of 22 on the independent label Denovali Records and which he dedicated exclusively to the piano , he demonstrated his virtuosity . At that time, it was a difficult chunk for fans of categorization: Classical music , but interpreted with a certain pop awareness .

Then he began to play concerts all over Europe.

In January 2014 he and the composer Sophia Jani released the EP Relive , on which they brought together compositional approaches with sounds and beats that were generated inside the grand piano. Cipa also used this as a basis for his second album All Your Life You Walk , which was released in November of the same year. The album builds up a melancholy atmosphere and puts a greater focus on the composition; Composed pieces that flow into one another are juxtaposed with short, avant-garde and minimal music-like fragments that add up to a whole. Furthermore, the atmospheric sounds experience an electronic change and strange instruments such as a Hohner guitaret, an ocean harp or a dulcimer enrich the music with additional acoustic components. Impressionistic tonal language, electronic tinkering and art of noise are mixed up , reminding either of complexity pop à la Radiohead or of the piano miniatures of Erik Satie . Classical , jazz , indie , pop and ambient form Cipa's sound. For two years he worked on the musical ideas, the sequence and the formal arc of All Your Life You Walk .

Between the two releases he performed with Haldern Pop and MS Dockville . From 2015 he intensified his live activities and played concerts in pop locations such as jazz clubs, theaters and concert halls.

He writes free works for classical ensembles as well as music for dance and theater and recorded the EP Trow together with producer Martin Brugger alias Occupanther, which was released in December 2016. With the mini-album Sculptures , which appeared almost exactly one year later on 1631 Recordings, he took a solo career. In April 2018 he also took part in a performance of Steve Reich's Six Pianos in the great hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg .

Carlos Cipa Ensemble, Munich, 2020

For his third album, Retronyms , he switched to Warner Classics . Cipa combined “different influences into a coherent whole” and thus found an unprecedented variability. "Despite its withdrawn character," said Toni Hennig, "the album musically hits in all possible directions and shines in a wide variety of colors". “Spontaneity and compositional class” combine “to create a pictorial and atmospherically intense work.” For the recordings, Cipa brought together musicians from classical music as well as from jazz and electronics, digital technology is married to analog hardware, wood and brass -Sounds or electric guitars merge with piano sounds to create digital-analog chamber music . Cipa itself is not only heard on the piano, but also on other keyboard instruments such as the celesta and the harmonium , on analog synthesizers and keyboards such as Wurlitzer or Fender Rhodes ; in doing so, he enters into a dialogue with his fellow musicians (including trumpeter Matthias Lindermayr ). According to the Musikexpress , music is created that sits between chairs, between composition and improvisation, between classical impressionism and pop consciousness, between melody and sound design .

He also works for film and television. In 2016, he and Martin Brugger wrote a musical accompaniment for the youth series 5vor12 ( BR / Arte ), which won the Grimme Prize , without which the series would not have found the flow that defines it. In 2016 he wrote the music for the German-Austrian feature film Geschwister by Markus Mörth , which premiered in March 2016 at the Diagonale and won the audience award at the Bolzano Film Festival Bozen . In 2016, he wrote a chamber music score for Moritz Binder's Thumb , which also premiered on the Diagonale. Together with Sophia Jani, he produced the film music for the cinema comedy Die Goldfische by Alireza Golafshan in 2019 , for which he won the Bavarian Film Prize's Young Talent Award . Individual pieces from Cipa's albums have already been used for advertising campaigns.

For his fourth album Correlations (on 11 pianos) he returned to his roots, the piano, for the second time. For the recordings he carefully selected six grand pianos , three upright pianos , a square piano and a Fender Rhodes , each piano has its own character. Cipa gives the listener the feeling of sitting next to him on the piano stool. He takes his audience on a fascinating journey through the keys and strings of the various pianos. Together with his audience, he explores the inside of the instruments, the materials they are made of, the sounds, the playing possibilities, the challenges they offer the player. Correlations is an intuitive musical collection in which the boundaries between composition, performance and working method are almost completely blurred. "The result is a musical adventure that is limitless for players and listeners."

Discography

Studio albums

  • The Monarch and the Viceroy (2012, Denovali Records )
  • All Your Life You Walk (2014, Denovali Records)
  • Retronyms (2019, Warner Classics)
  • Correlations (on 11 pianos) (2020, Warner Classics)

Singles & EPs

  • Relive (2014, Denovali Records)
  • Trow (2016, self-released)
  • The Place Where They Go (2017, 1631 Recordings)
  • Sculptures (2017, 1631 recordings)
  • Retronyms B-Sides (2020, Warner Classics)

Soundtracks

  • Thumb (2016, self-released)

Filmography

  • The Goldfish (2019, director: Alireza Golafshan)
  • Lovers of the Night (2018, director: Anna Frances Ewert)
  • Maalstrom (2018, director: Misja Pekel)
  • 5vor12 (2017, directed by Niklas Weise and Christoph Pilsl)
  • Siblings (2016, director: Markus Mörth)
  • Fragments of Mourning Work (2016, Director: Patrick Holzapfel)
  • Thumb (2016, director: Moritz Binder)
  • It's More of a Feeling (2012, directed by Patrick Holzapfel)
  • Phantasma - The Power of Dreams (2011, Director: Anil Kizilbuga)
  • Living Dead (2010, directed by Anil Kizilbuga)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Björn Bischoff: Carlos Cipa: From piano, hardcore and composition. In: nordbayern.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Carlos Cipa. In: jungeleute.sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Carlos Cipa. In: laut.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b c Carlos Cipa: All Your Life You Walk. In: musikexpress.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Carlos Cipa: Epic experiment between composition and improvisation. In: musikwoche.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ DIFFUS | Online music magazine. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ 2012/13. In: theaterakademie.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Toni Hennig: Between Johann Sebastian Bach and Mogwai. In: laut.de . Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c Wonderful variety. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  10. ^ Carlos Cipa: Retronyms. In: musikexpress.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Matthias Hannemann: The Kika youth series "5vor12": They just have to get out . In: faz.net . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 22, 2020]).
  12. ^ Austrian Film Institute: Siblings. In: filminstitut.at. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Press releases | Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2020. Accessed May 22, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Short_THUMB: Moritz Binder. In: moritzbinder.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Review of Die Goldfische. In: epd-film.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Bavarian Film Award: Actor Award and Producer Award shared. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  17. ^ C. Cornell Evers: pianist Carlos Cipa neemt luisteraar mee op Grenzeloos avontuur. In: Reporters Online. May 20, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020 (Dutch, translated with DeepL).
personal data
SURNAME Cipa, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich