Erwin Stache

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Erwin Stache (* 1960 in Schlema , now part of Aue-Bad Schlema , Erzgebirgskreis , Free State of Saxony ) is a German composer , sound artist and object builder.

Erwin Stache (2012)

Career

In addition to studying mathematics and physics, Erwin Stache took piano and organ lessons at an early age. Stache combined these two sides - technology and music - for his freelance work. Since 1983 he has been working as a sound object maker, musician and composer.

His objects are mostly based on the alienation of everyday objects, both acoustic and electronic. The starting point was the difficult material procurement conditions in the GDR . In 1976 he built his first own synthesizer . Other objects followed, mostly based on motors, record players, tapes and scrap materials. Even back then, he combined sound art and visual artistic elements in sometimes extremely bizarre devices, such as B. the marmot zither, which incessantly drops small balls on two zithers.

In addition to his inventive activity, he was active in various jazz, blues and rock groups in the 1980s, including Caesar's rock band and Zenit .

In the 1990s he worked on various music programs with Wolfgang Krause Zwieback and also worked in the fields of film and theater . From 1993 onwards, together with the Leipzig Gewandhaus musician Henry Schneider, he developed the annual agricultural machinery symphony : a concert for mower binders, hay tedders, tractors, potato combs, manure organ, concert musicians and villagers in Stelzen near Reuth .

Erwin Stache's artistic activity today extends to the areas of installation , concert , film and workshop. Independently playing devices such as the washing machine program disc orchestra , 87.3 kilo ohms or the concertina orchestra were among others. a. already at the Days of New Music in Witten, the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Art Cologne in Cologne, the Festival of Culture Capital Lille, Luxembourg and Sibiu, at VOXXX Chemnitz and in the Orff Center Munich. There are permanent installations in Leipzig, Dresden, Waldkirchen, Kaditzsch , Stelzen and Neerpelt.

Stache gives solo concerts all over Europe. He uses u. a. midified telephone dialing discs, prepared alarm devices, optical computer mice, sound boxes, tuned plywood panels, light senssivua, sound cars and many other specially produced sound objects. Many of his objects are also designed as interactive installations. It is not uncommon for the viewer to become an actor. Because of his curiosity, he unconsciously enters a stage, forgets his surroundings and experiences music very directly. This is supported by most of Stache's own humor.

Stache has been giving workshops for schoolchildren since 2002. These usually extend over a period of a few days up to several weeks, in which the students deal with the Stache objects and practice pieces. A final concert usually takes place at the end of the work phase. One of these school groups, which Erwin Stache founded in 2002 at the Brandis grammar school , continued over the years and now appears as the Ensemble Atonor .

Compositions and projects (selection)

  • 1989: sound stuff
  • 1992: Paradoxical keyboards
  • 1992: Tafü-Lafö
  • 1994: The composer's ten doubts
  • 1996: Be all ears
  • 1997: Novalis, luck up and away
  • 1997: Harmony of the not quite real tones
  • 1998: Klang-Mal-Hör
  • 1999: breathe finally-endlessly
  • 2000: Olearius, the long-distance path generator
  • 2002: Appetite for sound
  • 2003: Music fails
  • 2004: Quiet work - I hear something ...
  • 2005: numbers! Games?
  • 2005: InSait-OutSait
  • 2009: Now and then also up and down
  • 2011: City sound artist from Bonn
  • 2011: Etzoldsche Sandgrube Memorial in Leipzig (sound installation)

Movies

  • "A Sunday in Plagwitz", 12 music videos (1992/93/98)
  • "At the same time in another place", experimental film with the group Atonor (2007/09)

Prices

  • 1993: First prize at Musik Kreativ
  • 2001: Gellert Prize
  • 2005/07: Children to Olympus!

Web links

Commons : Erwin Stache  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Park at the Etzoldschen sand pit with a memorial. (PDF; 747 KB) City of Leipzig, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stache, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlema near Aue