Ernst Horn (musician)

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Concert by the band Deine Lakaien : Alexander Veljanov (left) and Ernst Horn (right), Berlin 2007

Ernst Horn (* 1949 in Munich ) is a German musician and was instrumental in founding the bands Deine Lakaien , Qntal and Helium Vola .

life and work

Ernst Horn with prepared piano (acoustic performance), April 29, 2006, Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Salon Noir

Ernst Horn studied conducting , piano and drums at the music academies in Munich , Freiburg im Breisgau and Hamburg and worked as a conductor at the state theaters in Karlsruhe and Oldenburg and as a theater pianist and composer at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. In 1985 he gave up his conducting career in order to gain a foothold beyond the opera business as a composer and specialist in electronic music. With Alexander Veljanov he founded your Lakaien in the same year . The band is his best-known project so far and is well known and widely recognized beyond the German borders. In addition to his main job as a musician and composer of electronic music, Ernst Horn also works as a theater musician and composer for radio plays.

With his electronic, always structured compositions, Horn has created an idiosyncratic style that clearly stands out from the mainstream. He won the Keyboard Magazine Reader Tape Contest in 1988 with his first solo release, the piece Einzelhaft . Electronic elements are usually found in Horn in combination with other compositional styles and / or samples . One example of this is the radio play Greed Freedom , in which the medieval hymn style is combined with speech samples. This piece also shows Horn's interest in taking up political and social issues. Another element used here is the embedding of children's voices. This stylistic device can be found again and again at Horn, such as B. on the Helium Vola album Liod , or in the track Acht , which shows the humorous side of this artist.

In commissioned compositions for the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt ( Spiegelarien , 2009) and as part of the Leipzig Bach Festival ("BACH - Alternative Compositions on Historical Basics", 2012) Horn combines works by old masters such as GF Handel and JS Bach with his own compositions whose roots are in the New music are founded.

Together with Ecki Stieg, he embarked on an extensive reading tour in 2007 and impressed as a keenly observing essayist.

Ernst Horn continues the Chrom Records label, which was closed in 2007, as a brand and artist label, especially for his projects Helium Vola and Deine Lakaien.

Ernst Horn lives and works in Munich- Sendling .

Discography (solo)

  • 1989: as Johnny Bumm: Wurstsemmeln / Sauerkraut (Maxi)
  • 1991: The Skies over Baghdad (album)
  • 1998: Johnny Bumm's Wake (album)
  • 2003: Lili Marleen, Baghdad 2/91 (mini album)

Radio plays

  • 1994: Johann Gottfried Seume - Some news about the incidents in Poland in 1794 [broadcast on BR]
  • 1995: Velimir Chlebnikov - The future of radio [broadcast on BR]
  • 1997: Carlfriedrich Claus - Basale speaking and operating rooms (remix) [broadcast on Bayern 2]
  • 2000: Walter Ruttmann - Sympathy for Schulze (Remix) [CD sampler Walter Ruttmann Weekend Remix ]
  • 2008: Greed / Freedom [broadcast on Bayern 2]
  • 2009: Clinic [CD Clinic / Mother Death: Michael Lentz Radio Play ]

Remixes

  • 1994: Project Pitchfork - Renascence (Opera Mix). On: Project Pitchfork - Renascence (Maxi-CD).
  • 1999: Wolfsheim - Heroin, She Said. On: Zillo Mystic Sounds 8 (sampler).
  • 1999: The I - Hey man. On: Das Ich - re_laborat (album).
  • 1999: Silence - Scream. On: Silence - Son of Sin (Maxi-CD).
  • 2002: VNV Nation - Beloved. On: VNV Nation - Beloved.1 (Maxi-CD).
  • 2006: Silence - Scream, Greeneyes. On: Silence - Key (compilation).

More pieces

  • 1988: Ernst Horn - solitary confinement (Keyboard Soundpage Contest Winner) [Vinyl, 7 ″ Flexi-disc]
  • 1995: Ernst Horn - Eight [CD sampler, his brother to rhythm ]
  • 2000: Ernst Horn - The Cliffs Of Norway [CD sampler Subout by Waldorf ]
  • 2002: Dracul feat. Ernst Horn - Life [CD sampler Nachtschwärmer 5 ]

Working as a producer

  • 1998: Estampie - Materia Mystica [CD album]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Moises (2017) The Past as a Challenge . Süddeuschte Zeitung January 20, 2017, accessed November 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Bob Doerschuk: "3rd Annual Reader Tape Contest Winners Edmund Eagan & Ernst Horn". Keyboard, March 1988, p. 66.
  3. ↑ "Spiegelarien" - Ernst Horn announces world premiere . Color-Ize, October 20, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ “Classic Lounge” awaited in Offenbach's Capitol with adaptations and world premieres . Märkische Oderzeitung, November 3, 2009. Accessed August 14, 2012.
  5. ↑ Helium Vola and the Bach Festival - News from Ernst Horn . Color-Ize, May 31, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  6. ↑ Chrom Records at Discogs
  7. ↑ a b Ernst Horn - "Johnny Bumm's Wake" . Sonic Seducer, 1998. In: Color-Ize. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich