Franziska Baumann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franziska Baumann (born April 9, 1965 ) is a Swiss musician of improvisation and composed music (vocals, flute, live electronics) and composer .

Live and act

Baumann studied at the Winterthur Conservatory with a major in flute and a minor in singing. She then completed improvisation courses with Fred Frith , Barre Phillips and George Lewis . She also trained her vocal skills with vocal artists such as Phil Campanella , Lauren Newton and Joan La Barbara . As a vocalist, she has greatly expanded the expressive possibilities of her voice with clicks , microtonal , percussive , timbre-changing and language-related techniques. She appears as a soloist and with musicians such as Pierre Favre , Joëlle Léandre , Lê Quan Ninh , Jacques Demierre , Peter Schärli , Matthias Ziegler, and Charlotte Hug . With Jürg Solothurnmann and Christoph Baumann , she forms the improvisation trio Potage du Jour . Her repertoire as a composer ranges from improvised works and electroacoustic compositions to sound installations and large room sound projects, some of which she relates to stage situations (e.g. glacier sound stream , a room composition brought to the stage for glacier sounds, voice and interactive sound). For DRS 2 she created six music for radio plays. As Artist in Residence in the Amsterdam Studio For Electro Instrumental Music (STEIM), she programmed a data glove in such a way that it can be used to influence voice and sound articulations directly during a performance in real time via the gestures. The artist lives and works near Bern.

Her concerts have taken her to numerous European countries, to South Korea, North America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand; she performed at relevant festivals, such as in Victoriaville, Canada and at the Musiktage in Donaueschingen. She also gave seminars and master classes at various conservatories and music academies. Since 2006 she has been a lecturer for vocal performance and improvisation at the University of the Arts in Bern, where she is also involved in research projects on topics such as sound without a body and gesture performance .

Pieces from her album voice sphere, where all the frozen things went , which is widely acclaimed within the contemporary music scene , were subjected to a cross-genre remix .

Discographic notes

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Franziska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss improvisation musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1965