Frank Bretschneider

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Frank Bretschneider, 2015
from left to right: Frank Bretschneider, Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender as the Signal group , live at the MUTEK Festival, Montréal 2004

Frank Bretschneider (* 1956 in Obercrinitz ) is a German musician and video artist . He publishes under his real name and the pseudonym Komet , as well as his early projects under the name AF Moebius .

His releases can roughly be classified as experimental electronic music and include genres such as clicks & cuts , ambient and minimal techno .

Life

After studying art, Bretschneider began producing his first pieces of music in 1984. In 1986 he founded Gruppe AG together with Torsten Eckhardt and Jan and Ina Kummer . Violin . Initially designed as an experimental art project, the band became known to a larger audience through Lutz Schramm's weekly radio broadcast Parocktikum on DT64 .

In the mid-1980s, Bretschneider founded the cassette labelklangFarBe , primarily to publish the cassette albums of his band AG Geige and its surroundings. With a maximum edition of 50 pieces published there u. a. the Kriminelle Tanzkapelle, Heinz & Franz, AG Geige and AF Moebius - a solo project by Bretschneider. A higher number was only available from the cassette album Yachtclub und Buchteln (1987) by AG Geige, which became a hit in the punk-connoted GDR underground . In 1990 AG Geige got a record deal with the Amiga label .

After the band split up in 1993, Bretschneider produced together with Olaf Bender , who had replaced Torsten Eckhardt in 1989. In 1995 they both founded the Rastermusic label in Chemnitz . In the following years, Rastermusic increasingly cooperated with the Chemnitz-based label noton. archive for sound and non-sound of the musician Carsten Nicolai . In 1999 both labels merged to form Raster-Noton . Bretschneider later withdrew from the label work, but remained connected to Raster-Noton both privately and as an artist.

Bretschneider published together with Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Bender, Tilo Seidel, Taylor Deupree , Ralph Steinbrüchel and Peter Duimelinks. His works have appeared on labels such as 12k, Mille Plateaux , Quatermass, Raster-Noton, Staalplaat and Mort Aux Vaches.

Frank Bretschneider lives and works in Berlin.

Discography (selection)

  • 1985: Scombermix , cassette album, on KlangFarBe (FBK 01)
  • 1985: Criminal dance band Happy Years , cassette album, on KlangFarBe (FBK 02)
  • 1985: Berlin By Night , Christian Heckel and Frank Bretschneider, cassette album, on KlangFarBe (FBK 03)
  • 1988: Heinz & Franz / AF Moebius - Split Tape, on KlangFarBe (FBK 07)
  • 1996: Comet - Saat ( Raster-Noton )
  • 1996: Komet - Flex (Raster-Noton)
  • 1996: Product (Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Tilo Seidel) - Float (Raster-Noton)
  • 1996: Tol (Frank Bretschneider + Tilo Seidel) - Trap (Raster-Noton)
  • 1997: Product (Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Tilo Seidel) - Stretch (Raster-Noton)
  • 1999: Frank Bretschneider - Rand ( Mille Plateaux )
  • 2000: Komet - Rausch (12k)
  • 2000: Signal (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender) - Center (Raster-Noton, Raster-Static)
  • 2001: Frank Bretschneider - Curve (Mille Plateaux)
  • 2001: Pan American / Komet / Fisherofgold - Personal Settings (Quatermass)
  • 2001: comet + / vs. Bovine Life - Reciprocess + / vs. 01 (BiP_HOp)
  • 2002: Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree - Balance (Mille Plateaux)
  • 2002: Frank Bretschneider - Aerial Riverseries (Whatness)
  • 2002: Alva Noto / Signal / Byetone / Comet - Mort Aux Vaches (Mort Aux Vaches)
  • 2003: Komet - Gold (Raster-Noton, Raster.Post)
  • 2003: Tol (Frank Bretschneider + Tilo Seidel) - Shang (BineMusic)
  • 2004: Frank Bretschneider - Looping I - VI (And Other Assorted Love Songs) (12k)
  • 2005: Bretschneider + Steinbrüchel - Status (12k)
  • 2006: Frank Bretschneider & Peter Duimelinks - Fflux (Korm Plastics, Brombron)
  • 2007: Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm (Raster-Noton)
  • 2007: Signal (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender) - Robotron (Raster-Noton)
  • 2010: Frank Bretschneider - Exp (Raster-Noton)
  • 2011: Frank Bretschneider - Komet ( Shitkatapult )
  • 2012: Frank Bretschneider - tilting vibrations (Line)
  • 2012: Frank Bretschneider - Super.Trigger (Raster-Noton)
  • 2014: Frank Bretschneider & Steve Roden - Suite Nuit (Line)
  • 2015: Frank Bretschneider - Sinn + Form (Raster-Noton)
  • 2018: Frank Bretschneider - Lunik (Shitkatapult)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer: In the musical no man's land - unheard of productions on the edge of rock culture. In: positions. Vol. 9, 1991, pp. 9-15; republished online on Sound Exchange. Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe. 2012.
  2. ^ GDR post-punk. In: De: BUG . February 10, 2007.
  3. ↑ a b About Frank Bretschneider. Frank Bretschneider's website, accessed January 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bretschneider, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comet (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Obercrinitz , GDR