Ferdinand Försch

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Ferdinand Försch (born January 15, 1951 in Bad Brückenau ) is a German musician , composer , sound artist and instrument maker .

Career

Ferdinand Försch studied composition, percussion and electronic music in Würzburg and Stuttgart from 1972 to 1980 . In the early 1980s he was also active as a rock musician under the pseudonym Herbert F. Bairy .

In 1982, during a seminar lasting several weeks in England, he met the American avant-garde composer John Cage , who inspired him to continue his work. Since then he has been developing and building new types of musical instruments. He writes his compositions for them, which he performs in performances and concerts around the world .

Försch repeatedly worked with musicians of different ethnic and stylistic origins, such as in the duo project “From Bach to Hendrix”, with the violinist Tracy Silverman from Nashville or with the Californian guitarist David Tanenbaum and the Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu . In collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Iris Tenge , several ballet music and ballet films were created.

In the years 1986 to 1988 he mainly concentrated on the construction of "sound images" and sound sculptures. In the interplay of sound and visualization, sequences of intervals such as cage and bach resulted in sculptural works, i.e. pictures, sculptures and installations, which the viewer access both optically and musically.

In 1994 he received teaching assignments at the University of Lüneburg and the Stuttgart Art Academy . In 1997 Försch moved from Wotersen Castle to Hamburg, where he opened the KlangHaus as an experimental forum for concerts, exhibitions and performances.

Works

Compositions

  • A Touch of Toccata, ballet music, 2011
  • Sonata Vertigo, ballet music, 2010
  • My road movies, ballet music, 2010
  • M4C, composition cycle, 1993/94

Videos

  • AirPace Crash, 2006
  • Ferdinand Försch Live - short cuts - Museum Ludwig Koblenz, 2004

Film music

  • 1999: Hans Warns - My 20th Century (Director: Gordian Maugg )
  • 2001: Ingredients for Dreams (Director: Gordian Maugg)
  • 2005: Zeppelin! (Director: Gordian Maugg)

CDs

  • Traumspiel, in-akustik, 2010
  • 4 Cage, Edition al segno. 1999
  • Bach 4/7, Q.-tip musivc, 1995
  • Dream game, Sandra Music productions. 1980

Exhibitions

  • Ferdinand Försch, Wiechern Gallery, Hamburg, 2007
  • Form and Sound of the Schwarzenbek District Judge House, 2005

Concerts

  • 7th avant-garde festival in Schiphorst, 2010
  • World Drum Festival, Hamburg, 1999
  • Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, 2001
  • The Kitchen, New York
  • Shanghai Art Festival
  • Murnau World Music Festival, 2004

Awards

  • 1983 scholarship at the International Dance Course for Professional Choreographers and Composers. University of Surrey, Guildford
  • 1995 Culture Prize of the Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: The wondrous sound world of Ferdinand Försch , accessed on February 4, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Försch, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer, sound artist and instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Brueckenau