Christopher von Deylen

Christopher von Deylen

Christopher von Deylen (born October 15, 1970 in Visselhövede ) is a German musician , music producer and composer . As co-founder and director of the Schiller music project , he lives and works in Berlin .

Career

When he was seven, von Deylen got a piano from his grandfather . The associated lessons followed a short time later. His piano teacher was musically very open-minded and, like himself, a friend of electronic music . Von Deylen grew up listening to the sounds of Tangerine Dream , Kraftwerk , Kitaro and Jean Michel Jarre ; their music was the basis for his later compositions. At the age of sixteen he irritated the audience at a concert at the classical music school: For his first electronic compositions, he showed pictures of the first manned moon landing in a psychedelic slide show . He also worked as a musician and sound engineer in the Abi band .

After graduation in 1990 began Deylen in Lueneburg the Study of Applied Cultural Studies with a major in music . During this time he got to know the music publisher Peter Meisel and was introduced to the Hamburg studio scene by him . Deylen gained experience in studio work in the recording studios Boogie Park and Chateau du pape .

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In 1994 he released his first single under the pseudonym F.LY The piece was called Feel the Rhythm and was not a success, but that did not discourage him. The dance project TANK was one of the projects that followed . With the piece Can U Feel the Bass he achieved a top 20 hit in the German charts in 1997 . He also produced sequences for Die Prinzen and Sin with Sebastian . For the MDR - radio drama Lord of the Flies , he produced a remix version of the Icehouse -Stücks Hey little girl from the 1980s and released a cover version of the Art of Noise -Hits Moments in Love .

In 1998 von Deylen founded the music project Schiller . His breakthrough came in 2001 with the album Weltreise . It stayed at number one in the German album charts for over four weeks. In 2002 he received the gold record and in 2010 the platinum record . Von Deylen worked on the Schiller studio albums Zeitgeist (1999), Weltreise (2001), Leben (2003), Tag und Nacht (2005), Sehnsucht (2008), Atemlos (2010), Sonne (2012) and Opus (2013) with the artists Peter Heppner , Mike Oldfield , Thomas D , Sarah Brightman , Isgaard Marke , Lang Lang , Kim Sanders , Xavier Naidoo , Klaus Schulze and Midge Ure . His seventh album Sonne was released on October 5, 2012. Musical guests are u. a. Unheilig , Kate Havnevik and Meredith Call . He also released the live albums Live (Er) Leben (2004), Tagtraum (2006), Sehnsucht Live (2008), Atemlos Live (2010) and Lichtblick (2010).

His album Future was released on February 26, 2016 . The lyrics to For You - the last song on CD 2 of this album - were written by Sharon Stone, who surprised Christopher von Deylen with a request through her manager during his stay in Los Angeles.

The album Future was made on the edge of the Mojave Desert (USA). Time and again, the artist finds inspiration for his compositions by traveling to unusual places. For example, the album Breathless was created under the impression of a four-week trip to the Arctic on the research ship Polarstern, in which von Deylen and a team of marine researchers took part in July 2009.

In addition to the actual studio albums, Deylen has been composing one or two albums per tour since 2004 , which are played in the background before the respective concert and are available on CD under the title Einlassmusik with the corresponding sequential number. His inlet music album from summer 2014 has the number 10 and was composed for the Klangwelten tour at the end of 2013. His live tours were always sold out.

Another project was the collaboration with Harald Blüchel , with whom Deylen published the albums Mare Stellaris and BiPolar in 2004 and 2006 . He also composed the music for the 'Raum der Spurensuche' in the East Frisian monastery of Ihlow .

In 2014, Christopher von Deylen left his apartment in Berlin and has since called himself "homeless of his own choice". He justified this drastic step in an interview with Frankenpost on August 22, 2016 as follows:

"In Berlin I sometimes didn't leave the apartment for five days. I increasingly found everything that made a big city to be a distraction and something that tended to get me astray. But after the last extensive Schiller tour with 50 concerts I didn't miss a home at all. Suddenly it was a very strange feeling to be in a fixed environment. At some point that no longer made sense. So I decided to give away all of my belongings except for the contents of two suitcases. Since then I've been homeless (laughs) After ten years in one place, it started to get a bit too comfortable for my taste. I then lived with friends in Berlin for a few months or found temporary accommodation through Airbnb. Suddenly I was able to travel the world without me Having to worry about who watered the flowers at home. That ended in an almost two-year stay in America. It wasn't a deliberate emigration, it was Try to maximize the degree of freedom. "

Web links

• Schiller homepage
• Christopher von Deylen in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HCS Content GmbH: Schiller: I have chosen to be homeless . In: Frankenpost . ( frankenpost.de [accessed on October 14, 2016]). Schiller: I have chosen to be homeless ( memento of the original from October 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.