Oliver Schwerdt

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Oliver Schwerdt (born November 13, 1979 in Eisenach ) is a German musicologist and musician ( piano , percussion ) in the field of new improvisation music .

academic career

Schwerdt attended school in Eisenach until he graduated from university and received classical piano lessons at the local music school. He did his military service as a piano accompanist in the training music corps of the Bundeswehr. He completed his studies in music and cultural studies as well as art history at the University of Leipzig , which he started in 1999, with a master's thesis on Georg Simmel and Dadaism submitted to Klaus Christian Köhnke . In 2012 he did his doctorate with Sebastian Klotz at the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig , for which he also worked as a lecturer. The focus of his dissertation is on the musical strategies of central actors in the scene of free improvised music in the aftermath of free jazz and their interpretation of spatial theory. He taught at the Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig and at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation .

In his musicological work, Schwerdt identified the challenge that current museum practice is facing in relation to the “reinvention of the drum kit” as it became a reality “in European improvisation music” of the 20th century. He is committed to safeguarding the "acutely endangered, historically so delicate, aesthetically highly fascinating and epistemologically valuable object complexes" of the first generation of European free jazz and contemporary improvised music.

As an author of music-critical articles, Schwerdt wrote for the Neue Musikzeitung , Jazzthetik and the Jazzzeitung, among others . He also wrote accompanying texts for albums by Günter Sommer / Wadada Leo Smith as well as Alexander von Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Paul Lovens and Urs Leimgruber . In 2003 he founded the publishing house Euphorium Productions .

Activity as a musician

Since 1999, Schwerdt has been the artistic director of EUPHORIUM_freakestra , a project ensemble between contemporary improvisation , jazz , new music and theater with Günter Sommer, Friedrich Schenker , Rudi Mahall , Paul Rutherford , Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Frank Möbus , Wadada Leo Smith , Axel Dörner , Barre Phillips , Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Sven-Åke Johansson , Ulrich Gumpert , Manfred Hering , Dietmar Diesner , Roger Turner , Barry Guy , Akira Sakata and others. At the 33rd Leipzig Jazz Days 2009 he performed with the project Transatlantic Freedom Suite Tentets at the Leipzig Opera House . The ember quartet with Urs Leimgruber, Alexander Schubert and Christian Lillinger developed from the project ensemble . From 2006 to 2016 he worked with Lillinger and Petrowsky in the New Old Luten Trio . From 2013 to 2015 with the albums Tumult! , Riot! , Rabatz! The documented recording of Petrowsky's late work in a quintet formation expanded by double bassists John Edwards and Robert Landfermann met with great interest. Schwerdt runs the electrified noise ensemble trnn with Schubert and Friedrich Kettlitz .

Schwerdt received the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Scholarship from the Marion Ermer Foundation in 2006 for his performance as a pianist and ensemble leader . The critics Ken Waxman (Jazzword) and Rigobert Dittmann (Bad Alchemy) hear reminiscences of Oscar Peterson , Bill Evans , Cecil Taylor and Alexander von Schlippenbach in Schwerdt's piano playing .

Schwerdt uses the following pseudonyms : Edithrakneff Weinermond, Frautastem !, Ingrid Ingulfwieher, Rita Deixis, Solveig Reberp-Klamt and Elan Pauer.

Works

Fonts

  • My Bauhaus course. A journey through the Harz Mountains through modern architecture (EUPHORIUM: EUPH 023, 2016) ISBN 978-3-944301-35-8
  • Cheers book for baby. Festschrift for Günter Sommer's 70th birthday (EUPHORIUM: EUPH 042, 2013) ISBN 978-3-944301-28-0
  • Baby summer XXL! How the drummer orders the space with free jazz. The big monograph on Günter Sommer's seventieth! 5 volumes (EUPHORIUM: EUPH 038e, 2012) ISBN 978-3-944301-15-0
  • On the constitution, representation and transformation of the spatial in music. An investigation of the symbol, instrumental and action space realized by Günter Sommer (EUPHORIUM: EUPH 038c, 2012) ISBN 978-3-944301-13-6
  • Money and nonsense, Georg Simmel and Dadaism. A systematic study of relativistic philosophy and art (EUPHORIUM: EUPH 022, 2011) ISBN 978-3-944301-09-9

Discographic notes

  • 2 trios & 2 babies with Christian Lillinger , Günter Sommer , Matthias Mainz, Fabian Niermann, Michael Haves, Matthias Lorenz u. a. (Euphorium: EUPH 009, 2005)
  • Oullh d'baham with Urs Leimgruber, Alexander Schubert, Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 010, 2006)
  • Free Electric Supergroup with Axel Dörner, Frank Möbus, Thomas Lehn , Phil Minton , Alexander Schubert, Friedrich Kettlitz, Ronny Graupe , Matthias Macht u. a. (Euphorium: EUPH 018, 2007)
  • Aurona Arona with Urs Leimgruber, Alexander Schubert, Christian Lillinger (Creative Sources: CS 167, 2008)
  • Oliver Schwerdt & Günter Sommer Dry Swing / Tandem Spaces (Euphorium: EUPH 034, 2013)
  • Trilogy tumult! / Riot! / Rabatz! with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, John Edwards, Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 045, 052, 057, 2015–17)
  • Prestige / No Smoking (Euphorium: EUPH 053, 2017; solo album)
  • Karacho! with Peter Brötzmann , John Edwards, John Eckhardt and Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 066, 2019)
as Edithrakneff Weinermond (pseudonym)
Published audio-video media
  • Euphorium Live Scenes 2006 with Oliver Schwerdt, Alexander Schubert, Christian Lillinger (Euphorium: EUPH 017, 2006)

literature

  • Oliver Schwerdt: EUPHORIUM Magazin I (2003-2008) - Collected papers on contemporary and freely improvised music and jazz . EUPHORIUM Books, Leipzig, 2009
  • Bert Noglik : Here it burns again, the improvised music ... in White Power Blues EUPHORIUM Records, Leipzig, 2010, p. 20f.
  • Osterhausen, Hans-Jürgen von: From the spatiality and the limits of music. Oliver Schwerdt's doctoral thesis on Günter Baby Sommer and free jazz in a short version in Jazzzeitung , vol. 38, No. 2–13, April – May 2013; CON BRIO, Regensburg 201304, p. 13.
  • Elstermann, Falk; Hinger, Torsten (Ed.): 30 years of naTo . PASSAGE Verlag, Leipzig 2013, pp. 52f., 60, 100, 102.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olshausen, Ulrich: Magier am percussion in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 19, 2013, No. 191, p. 32
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / issuu.com
  3. ↑ Ott, Detlef: Baby Summer XXL. Monograph about an extraordinary musician in Jazzpodium, 62nd year, No. 2, p. 7
  4. ↑ http://mfm.uni-leipzig.de/dt/dasmuseum/Mitarbeiter.php
  5. ↑ Schwerdt, Oliver: Baby, the younger one, turned seventy. Seven colorful sentences on Günter Sommer in everyday life, art and science in Jazzpodium, 62nd year, no. 9, p. 21
  6. ↑ Schwerdt, Oliver: Baby, the younger one, turned seventy. Seven colorful sentences on Günter Sommer in everyday life, art and science in Jazzpodium, 62nd year, no. 9, p. 21
  7. ↑ Schwerdt, Oliver: Progress jumps - or: Of which revolution I am writing with the drummer Günter, Baby 'Sommer. On a spatial theoretical aspect of research into contemporary jazz and free improvised music in Ernst Helmuth Flammer (ed.): Progress, what is that ...?, Hofheim 2014, Wolke, p. 486
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oliverschwerdt.de
  9. ↑ http://www.intaktrec.ch/128-a.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.intaktrec.ch/183-a.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_570
  12. ↑ Scheiner, Michael: Supermundane Order. Label portrait: Euphorium Records in Jazzzeitung, 34th year, No. 4-09, p. 23
  13. ^ Dieckmann, Christoph: Woodstock at the carp pond. It has almost been forgotten: The GDR was world champion in free jazz in Die Zeit, November 28, 2013, No. 49, p. 65f.
  14. ↑ http://www.jazzword.com/reviews/105170 ; see. also Konrad, Jörg: Dal Ngai in Jazzpodium, 53rd vol., No. 5, p. 63; see. also Polaschegg, Nina: Dal Ngai in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 165th year, No. 5, p. 80
  15. ↑ cf. also Georgi, Steffen: How much freedom does a dead end leave? in Leipziger Volkszeitung , Volume 117, No. 293, p. 11
  16. ↑ cf. also Steinmetzger, Ulrich: Dynamized. Euphorium freakestra further develops free jazz in Leipziger Volkszeitung, Volume 118, No. 289, p. 11
  17. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from December 20, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nato-leipzig.de
  18. ↑ http://www.nato-leipzig.de/live_archiv.php?itemid=53828&bravo=bra52b3774ee4e67  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nato-leipzig.de  
  19. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 1, 2009 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. ; see. Steinmetzger, Ulrich: Large inventory in Leipziger Volkszeitung, vol. 115, No. 202, p. 10 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jazzclub-leipzig.de
  20. ↑ http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/catalog/catalog_167.html ; see. also Wagner, Christoph: Oullh d'baham in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 168th vol., No. 3, p. 89
  21. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/online/ernst-ludwig-petrowsky-der-dienstaelteste-jazzer-der-ddr-wird-75-jahre-alt
  22. ^ Prize of the German Record Critics' Best List 1-2018
  23. ↑ http://www.ahornfelder.de
  24. ↑ http://www.jazzzeitung.de/jazz/2006/07/news.shtml
  25. ↑ http://www.jazzword.com/one-review/?id=128539
  26. ↑ Rigobert Dittmann: Bad Alchemy No. 68, January 2011, p. 25ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schwerdt, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach