Frank Schulte

Frank Schulte (born September 25, 1962 in Hagen ) is a German sound and media artist.

Life

Frank Schulte has been working on composed and improvised scenic music together with performance artists, dancers, actors and writers since the early 1990s. He composes music for scenic productions. He experiments with new sound generation techniques. He designs sounds and soundtracks for film and television and develops his own conceptual intermedia projects.

From the European musical tradition of "musique concrète", sound installation and in connection with the new dance culture, he develops noise stories, "songlines" and "dreamscapes" and music for films of the subconscious in a personal language. He designed intermedia events such as Switchbox and Electronic Lounge , in which his selection of sound arts, “ambient” and improvised music as well as elements from the electronic music scene are closely connected.

He has a longstanding artistic partnership with Dirk Raulf , saxophonist and composer from Cologne. From 1995 to 1997 Schulte & Raulf conceived and realized the event series “Teatime” with artist contributions from the fields of literature, visual arts as well as contemporary and improvised music. In 1995 they founded the label "Poise". In addition, they worked together in various contemporary, thematic concert projects such as the Friedrich Holländer music project "From head to foot" (1996). This was followed by joint work on theater and film music and in the artist collective "membran". In 2006 Schulte & Raulf formed the duo sonargemeinschaft . In December 2007 the duo worked with the English guitarist Fred Frith and gave concerts in Cologne's Loft . The live recording of this trio performance was titled drift . Released in 2008 on "Poise" as CD.

Further collaboration took place with David Moss , Jon Rose , David Shea , Yoshihide Otomo , Anna Homler, Thomas Heberer , Christian Marclay , Phil Minton , Sussan Deyhim, Dirk Raulf , Lorenzo Brusci, Kalle Laar , Andres Bosshard , Lauren Newton and Bojan Vuletic .

Frank Schulte developed music for the theaters in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Weimar, Essen, Oberhausen and St. Gallen.

He held project seminars in 2002 and 2004 at the Art Academy for Media, Cologne (KHM) and in 2007 as part of the Sound Space Garden project at the International School of Design, Cologne (KISD).

Schulte was involved in the conception, planning and implementation of music presentations such as the Minifestival Düsseldorf, electric trick, as well as theme evenings and salons such as the Club Orchidee or Teatime and cross-disciplinary series of events such as 4b, electronic lounge, Tonspur and aufbau WEST.

Performances

Frank Schulte has given concerts and tours at the New Jazz Festival Moers, Moers Festival , the Leipzig Jazz Days , the JazzFest Berlin , the Festival International des Musiques Actuelles Nancy, at Wien Modern , the GRAME Festival Lyon, the ISEA Helsinki 94, at the Music Unlimited Festival Wels, the Sonambiente Festival Berlin, the WDR Music Festival and the MusikTriennale Cologne 1997.

Schulte showed the realization of performances and projects at documenta 8 and 9 in Kassel and at the XLV biennale in Venice, the Leipzig and Dresden Opera, in the Berliner Ensemble and at the IRCAM Institute in Paris. On behalf of the Goethe Institute , he toured Uruguay, Argentina and Chile as well as London, Paris and Rome as well as Japan and India.

Staged productions / new music, opera / radio play

• Cafe Central - monologue of a violin player - with Jon Rose - TV television play production ORF / Transit 1992
• Les Sortilèges - Staging by Christian Marclay with Kalle Laar and G. Zeitblom. Performances in 1996 at the Marstall Theater in Munich
• Survival Songs - Staged opera for five voices and virtual orchestra with Sussan Deyhim, Sainkho Namtchilak, Phil Minton , Conny Bauer , Gunter Hampel , David Moss , Yoshihide Otomo . Concept & direction: Bert Noglik & David Moss - 1996 performances at the Leipzig Opera House, Dresden and the Berliner Ensemble (Be)
• Capetown Traveler Musical Opera with Abdullah Ibrahim and Ensemble, Lauren Newton and Timbre. Director: Bert Noglik Performance at the Leipzig Opera House in 1998
• The birds according to Aristophanes - 2000 theater production at the Schauspiel St.Gallen / Switzerland. Directed by Isabella Mamatis
• PROJECTIONS - Mixed media project with the aperto 4 string quartet. 2002 Awarded the jazzArt Prize in the Multi Media category.
• KOGAKURE - meeting in between trees. Media dance project with the dancer and choreographer Yoshie Shibahara, the trumpeter Matthias Mainz and the media artist Tessa Knapp. Performances in 2007 and 2008 as part of tanz nrw and in the East Asian Museum, Cologne.
• images volubiles - Expanded Media Project with Yoshie Shibahara, Matthias Mainz and the media artist Egbert Mittelstädt. 2008 Performances in the Böhm Church of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst.
• JAZZJANDL - radio play on behalf of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk together with the American vocalist Lauren Newton . Director: Bert Noglik . 2009 Broadcasts on Deutschlandfunk, Bayerischen Rundfunk (BR), Südwestfunk (SWR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
• Purely statistical - radio play by Frank-Patrick Steckel . Music: sonar community. The radio play was broadcast in 2010 on Deutschland Radio, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB).

Exhibitions

• 2005–2007: Klang raum garten - project presentation as part of the architecture festival plan. In a long-term study over a period of three years, various working approaches were experimentally tested in the Klang raum garten project and presented as part of plan - the largest German architecture forum in Cologne's Stadtgarten.
• 2007: triad trip. Installation on the Cologne Rhine cable car on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Federal Garden Show as part of the Cologne Music Triennale.
• 2010: Lippstadt light promenade. Light and sound installation “the mediator”.
• 2013: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Guest at KIT - Art in the Tunnel: sonic states. Sound architectures - interactions & states. Frank Schulte and Bojan Vuletic .

Discography

Works and collections under his responsibility

• Fathers and Sons , cassette, limited edition
• Sotto in Su , South America Sept. 90 with Thomas Heberer , Alexander Tuchacek and Reinhold Breuer, JHM 51CD, CD (February 1, 2006), Jazzhausmusik (ALIVE)
• The day we forgot , trio with David Moss and Axel Otto - nml CD - / no man's land Berlin
• Sugarconnection , plays alien cakes, trio with Anna Homler and Axel Otto - nml CD - no man's land Berlin
• Cafe Central , Monologue of a violinplayer, by and with Jon Rose - Video - VHS Pal - limited edition - Transit Innsbruck
• Six Pulses , solo works, limited CD edition, CDR on demand - poise
• SWITCHBOX , a switched hour, with David Moss, Yoshihide Otomo , Jon Rose , Anna Homler, Thomas Heberer, Axel Otto, Dieter Manderscheid , Frank Gratkowski and Andres Bosshard , nml CD
• SWITCHBOX , berg ich - berg du, with David Shea , Anna Homler, Axel Otto, Tony Buck , Martin Schütz and Michael Moore, audio CD (July 20, 1995), Noman ( Extraplatte Musikproduktion)
• Sotto in Su , with Thomas Heberer , Alexander Tuchacek and Reinhold Breuer featuring Sussan Deyhim, Vanitas - CD
• Voix , remix with David Moss, Tenko, Sussan Deyhim, Phil Minton and a 50-member choir, remix and electronic processing together with Marcus Schmickler - limited CDR Edition
• elements , composition for 16 acoustic instruments and live electronics - CDR on demand Edition - poise
• PROJEKTIONEN , WDR commissioned composition for string quartet and live electronics - CDR on demand edition - poise
• the london trax , Solo arrangements for turntables and electronic instruments - CDR on demand Edition - poise
• NOSFERATU , film soundtrack interpretation on behalf of the IRCAM Institute, with David Moss and Phil Minton - CDR on demand Edition - poise
• mE - music electronic , personal songs and sounds - minimalizms and miniatures - CDR on demand Edition
• SSH plays sssh , dedicated to the vision of MD & Sun Ra, trio with Thomas Heberer and Norbert Scholly - CD
• : resonanzen - Neanderland , double CD, sound topographical portrait of the Mettmann region
• drift , sonargemeinschaft & fred frith , audio CD (May 30, 2008), Poise (Alive)
• 24 Düsseldorf sound architectures , sonic states, production in collaboration with Bojan Vuletic , audio CD & DVD, limited artist edition self-distributed

Participation in samplers

• Ecstasy by current / Sampler - LP - Schizophonia Berlin
• Stadtgarten Series 4 / Sampler - CD - Jazzhausmusik Cologne
• Musica Propiziatoria / Sampler - CD - Museo Immaginario Italy
• Stadtgarten series 7 / Sampler - CD - Jazzhausmusik Cologne
• turntable solos - CD - AMOEBIC - Japan
• Violin music for supermarkets by Jon Rose - Megaphone Records Baltimore
• Techno with disturbances by Jon Rose - CD - Schl8hof Wels
• Teatime Vol. I by Schulte / Raulf - CD - poise 01
• Friedrich Holländer or the Laughter of Loneliness by Dirk Raulf - CD - New Classic Colors
• A violin for Valentin by Jon Rose - CD - No wave
• The world is always beautiful by Dirk Raulf - CD - poise 03
• Teatime Vol. II by Schulte / Raulf - CD - poise 06
• Also Goethe by Lutz Görner - CD / book - Reziteater Verlag Cologne
• Goethe Superstar by Lutz Görner - 5 CD box - Naxos
• Time Stories by David Moss - CD - Intakt records
• Linguafonie 3 - CD - with u. a. Thomas Heberer , Thomas Lehn , Giancarlo Schaffini - Goethe-Institut Rome
• Theater 1 - CD - by Dirk Raulf - poise 07
• Liebeslieder - CD - by Oliver Steller - guitars & poetry Verlag - Distribution: Naxos
• Poems I - CD - by Oliver Steller - guitars & poetry Verlag - Distribution: Naxos
• Vocal Village Project - CD - by and with David Moss, Phil Minton , Catherine Jauniaux , Koichi Makigami - Intakt Records
• The Disappearance of Distance - CD - together with Oliver Steller - guitars & poetry Verlag - Distribution: Naxos
• Theater 3 - Kampfhunde - CD - by Dirk Raulf - poise 11
• Sound Art @ Het Apollohuis - Sampler - CD release by ZKM milestones - WERGO distribution
• IFAR Musique Concrète VOX compilation - Sampler - Online Compilation
• IFAR Musique Concrète found compilation - Sampler - Online Compilation

Web links

• Official website of Frank Schulte

Individual evidence

1. ↑ soniq-id.net
2. ↑ amazon.de
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2007 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. 
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 21, 2013 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. 
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 29, 2010 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. 
7. ↑ Klangraumgarten.de .
8. ↑ soniq-id.net
9. ↑ http://www.soniq-id.net/
10. ↑ plan
11. ↑ Video documentation: Dreiklangreise .
12. ^ TV report by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) about the sound and light installation
13. ↑ You can find video documentation of the exhibition here: soniqid / sonicstates-kit2013 .
14. ↑ discogs.com
15. ↑ poise
16. ↑ bandcamp
17. ↑ bandcamp