Felix Kubin

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Felix Kubin , actually Felix Knoth (* 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German musician , composer and radio play maker . He runs the record label Gagarin Records.

Life

Felix Kubin began his music career at the age of eight on the piano and electronic organ . From 1992 to 1996 he studied drawing , sound installation , video and animation film at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , department of design. In 1995 he was doing a one-year DAAD study abroad in the Media Art Department of the AKI art school in Enschede , Netherlands .

In 1981, at the age of twelve, he recorded his first own pieces with synthesizer , organ , voice and drum computer . Two years later, one of the first 4-track cassette recorders was added. From 1983 he performed live with Stefan Mohr under the name "Die Egozentrischen 2". He was discovered early on by the Hamburg label operator and impresario Alfred Hilsberg ( ZickZack Records ), who arranged for him to perform various times, for example in 1984 in the Hamburg market hall at the “In der Wärme der Nacht” festival. Some home recording recordings from this period were a. documented on the compilation "The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981–1985".

In the 1990s, Kubin began to experiment with music made from noises and released several albums with his band "Klangkrieg". From 1992 to 1994 he was a member of the Dada communist singing group "Liedertafel Margot Honecker". At the same time as he founded his record label Gagarin Records in 1998, he turned back to avant-garde pop. In the following years he expanded his artistic spectrum through lecture performances and contemporary compositions for chamber orchestra and electronics.

In addition to numerous recordings, workshops and lectures at home and abroad, Felix Kubin wrote music for films and theater productions. In addition, played at over 100 international music and media art festivals, including Sónar , Mutek , Incubate , Wien Modern and Ars Electronica .

In 2010 his live concert "Echohaus" for six rooms, headphone ensemble and electronics in cooperation with the "ensemble Intégrales" was premiered at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. In 2013 and 2015 the commissioned compositions "Chromdioxidgedächtnis" and "Takt der Arbeit" followed for the series NDR das neue werk . In 2016 Kubin's 70-minute orchestral piece "Falling still" for boys' choir, string ensemble, electronics and percussion premiered at the 2nd Hamburg International Music Festival.

Genre

In Felix Kubin's music, influences from the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), contemporary classical music and film music of the 20th century can be seen. He often uses analog synthesizers . A clear closeness to the Neue Deutsche Welle is also evident in his surrealist German texts, which are wild, poetic and open to meaning.

However, Kubin was too young to actively participate in the development of the early NDW.

Radio plays

Since 2001 Felix Kubin has been producing radio reports between radio plays and features . They can be divided into three categories:

  • Radio plays that condense documentary recordings with studio recordings in a fictional framework and thus go beyond the classic feature. ( Paralektronoia , repeat 1-8 , Syndicate for counter-noise , Mother in the fridge )
  • Dramatic radio plays (selection)
    • Orpheus ' psycotron . After Dino Buzzati . With Lars Rudolph , Traugott Buhre , Marlen Diekhoff , Leéna Fahje u. a. Music recordings: Ensemble Intégrales, composition: Felix Kubin / Burkhard Friedrich, realization: Felix Kubin, production: BR radio play and media art 2006.
    • Orphée Mécanique . Content: Orpheus, son of an inventor and a singer, is celebrated by scattered youth for his eccentric concerts. His instrument, the psykotron, can transform streams of thought directly into electronic signals from music, noises and language. Radio play with Lars Rudolph , Gerhard Garbers, Yvon Jansen, Charlotte Crome, Traugott Buhre , Marlen Diekhoff. Choir: Yvon Jansen, Leéna Fahje, Nikola Duric. Orchestra: ensemble Intégrales. Composition and realization: Felix Kubin. Production: BR radio play and media art 2006/2012. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • Sound art ( night storage , territorial territory , infant shower head, lady's steps , phantom power )

For example, the radio opera Repeat 1-8 appears like an “instruction manual for the technological world”, in which instructions from building a cupboard to using a telephone receiver to autosuggestion cassettes give an idea of ​​how bad language actually works as a communication tool.

Film and theater music

In recent years Kubin has worked in the theater with artists such as Christoph Schlingensief ("Atta Atta", Volksbühne Berlin , 2003), Mariola Brillowska ("House of National Dog", Kampnagel Hamburg, 2007), Schorsch Cameroon ("Hollywood Elegien") , Ruhrtriennale Essen, 2002) and Branco Simic (“Zufall”, Kampnagel Hamburg, 2003). He composed film music for animated films by Mariola Brillowska, Anke Feuchtenberger and Martha Colburn . He also wrote scripts for “propaganda films” for the Dada communist art party KED (Communist Unity Party of Germany) and produced his own short films that were shown at international festivals and on foreign television.

In 2007 his performance piece on operating instructions "I want upwards, I want downwards" premiered in the Tanzquartier Wien .

Prices

Discography

  • Antarctic Slow Rock - 7 "(1998; Meeuw Muzak)
  • Film music - LP / CD (1998; Gagarin Records, A-Music)
  • Removing pain from the head - LP / zootrope object (1999; Rund um den Watzmann)
  • Jane B. drowns with the horses - 10 "(2000; Diskono)
  • Tesla's Aquarium (with Pia Burnette) - LP (2000; Storage)
  • Schnitzler - 7 "(2000; pop'eclectic)
  • Ipsomat Legrand (with Günther Reznicek, Mark Mancha) - 10 "(2001; Disaster Area)
  • Jetlag Disco - EP / 3 "CD (2001; A-Music)
  • Superlake Beat (with Aavikko) - 7 "(2001; Diskono)
  • The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981–1985 - LP / CD (2002; A-Musik, Skipp)
  • I hate art galleries (with Mark Boombastik) - 7 "(2003; Meeuw Muzak)
  • The cultural revolution - 7 "(2003; A-Musik)
  • Matki Wandalki - LP / CD (2004; A-music)
  • The uprising of the chemists ( Die Egozentrischen 2) - LP (2004; What is that supposed to mean? Records)
  • Idiot music - 7 "(2005; Ultraeczema)
  • Territerrortorium (with Wojtek Kucharczyk) - 7 "(2005; Gagarin Rec. + Mik.Musik)
  • Anaerobic Robots (with Mark Boombastik, Jake Basker) - EP (2005; Gagarin Records)
  • Atoma Exi Mono , compilation - CD (2006; Solnze)
  • There is a garden (with Coolhaven) - 7 "(2006; A-Music)
  • Soup for the night (with Coolhaven) - CD (2006; Kormplastics)
  • House of National Dog (with Mariola Brillowska) - CD (2007; A-music)
  • Detached from all objects (with Pia Burnette) - LP / CD (2007; Gagarin Records + Stora)
  • The Pataphysical Tape Club (Split-LP with IFCO) - LP / art mag. (2007; BIGMAG # 2)
  • Axolotl Lullabies - CD / LP (2007; Oral)
  • Felix Kubin & the Mineral Orchestra: music for theater and radio play - CD / LP (2008; decorder)
  • The owner of the chlorophyll mandate monitors the balance of light and shadow - audio cassette (2008; ALKU)
  • Felix Kubin , compilation - CD (2009; Nuevos Ricos)
  • Brother Lucifer 1982-2010 , compilation CD (2010; The Omni Recording Corporation)
  • Echohaus (with ensemble Intégrales) - 2LP / CD (2010; decorder)
  • Fog Frog (with Max Goldt, Mark Boombastik) - 7 "(2011; Meeuw Muzak)
  • TXRF - 2LP / CD (2012; it's)
  • Teenage Tapes - LP / DL (2012; Minimal Wave)
  • Orphée Mécanique - CD (2012; Intermedium Records / Belville)
  • Zemsta Plutona - LP / CD / DL (2013; Gagarin Records, ZickZack)
  • Bacteria & Batteries (with Mitch & Mitch) - LP / CD (2013; Gagarin Records, Lado ABC)
  • Disco 2100 / Antarktis Slow Rock / Hotel Super Nova (with Mitch & Mitch) - 12 "EP (2014; Gagarin Records, Lado ABC)
  • Chromium Dioxide Memory - CD + MC (2014; Gagarin Records)
  • 1:17 (with Scott Haggart, Lary 7) - LP (2014; Gagarin Records)
  • Diver - 12 "Maxi (2015; it's)
  • Felix Kubin & the Mineralorchester II: Music for Film and Theater - LP / DD (2016; decorder)
  • Shine on you crazy diagram (Split-LP with Splitter Orchester) - LP / DD (2016; Gagarin Records)
  • Coughs and Sneezes - 8 "Picture Disc (2016; Hasenbart)
  • Takt der Arbeit (with Miłosz Pękala, Magdalena Kordylasińska, Hubert Zemler) - LP / DD (2017; Editions Mego)
  • Dawn / The night modeled from gold - 7 "in blue / turquoise (2018; Psychofon Records)
  • Max Brand Study IV / Topia - LP / DD (2019; VIS)
  • CEL (Felix Kubin & Hubert Zemler) - LP / CD / DD (2020; Bureau B)

List of radio plays

  • Syndicate for Counter Noise , DLR Berlin (2001)
  • Nachtspeicher , WDR, by Felix Kubin and Boris D. Hegenbart (2003)
  • Molaradio , by Felix Kubin and Vicki Bennett, published by FACT Collaboration Program, Liverpool (UK). (2004)
  • PLOP! 2003 - Acoustic Cut Flowers , SWF (2004)
  • Territerrortorium , ORF / DLR Berlin, by Felix Kubin and Wojtek Kucharczyk (2004)
  • Paralektronoia , WDR 1 Live (2004)
  • Orpheus' Psykotron , BR (2006)
  • The Pataphysical Tape Club , Audiotoop III Festival for live radio plays (2006/2007)
  • Repeat 1-8 , WDR 1 Live (2008)
  • Infant, shower head, lady's steps, author's production (first German radio culture) (2010)
  • Parasol Elektroniczny - rumors from the eastern underground , MACBA Barcelona (2010–2012)
  • Orphée Mécanique , BR (2012), published in 2013 by Intermedium / Belleville
  • Mother in the Fridge , Author's Production (2012)
  • Ms. ID , author production (2014)
  • Phantom power , BR (2017)
  • The machine stands still , NDR (2018)

literature

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  1. ↑ a b The early synth-pop experiments and sound designs on the Korg MS20 remind the musician Momus of the Düsseldorf group “Der Plan”. Kubin works here “like a 13-year-old genius or an ingenious trickster who accomplishes the feat that his imitations are both authentic and contemporary anachronistic. A dude and a geek in equal parts. ”“ The Spinner, ”The Wire Magazine # 316, June 2010.
  2. ^ Sophie Jung: In the waiting room of the Last Judgment . In: Tageszeitung from June 24, 2013
  3. ^ Falter, October 2004.
  4. ^ BR radio play Pool - Kubin, Orphée Mécanique
  5. ↑ “O Ton Radiooper”, epd medien # 96, December 2008.
  6. ↑ compiled on the DVD "Fernsehpropheten": http://www.raumfuerprojektion.de .
  7. ↑ http://tq000006.host.inode.at/Content.Node/de/buehne/spielplan/293.php?ver_id=880 .
  8. ↑ qwartz.org ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2011 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. Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.qwartz.org
personal data
SURNAME Kubin, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knoth, Felix (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg