Friedemann Dähn
Friedemann "Fried" Dähn (* 1958 in Tübingen ) is a German cellist , experimental musician and media artist .
Live and act
Dähn was born in Tübingen in 1958 and grew up in a musical family. He began to practice the piano at the age of four and had his first cello lessons at the age of ten. After leaving school, he studied classical violoncello with Johannes Goritzki at the Musikhochschule Düsseldorf , which he graduated with distinction. Tours have taken Dähn to the People's Republic of China, Russia, the USA, Brazil and all the major music centers in Europe. From 1990 to 1993 he played in the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, where he worked with artists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen , Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa .
Dähn has been the principal cellist of the Württemberg Philharmonic in Reutlingen since 1991 . In the early 1990s, Dähn developed an electric cello and began his own musical projects in the fields of electronic and experimental music , jazz , improvisation and sound art . Dähn plays with the electro cello in several formations of the most varied musical styles and genres, including Jaap Blonk , Mike Svoboda , Markus Stockhausen , Patrick Bebelaar and Dave Douglas .
In 1999 Fried Dähn founded the international festival Creative Arts and Music Project (CAMP) together with Thomas Maos . Since then, the festival has taken place on invitation at various locations (2005 Montemor-o-Novo / Portugal, 2007 WKV Stuttgart - funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation , 2010 HfG Karlsruhe , 2011 Zagreb / Croatia). In 2009 the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart . Since 2012 Dähn has been a regular contributor to Zappanale in changing band formations. 2016 with his string quartet Yellow String Quartet together with Grandmothers of Invention ( Don Preston , Bunk Gardner and Ed Mann ).
Dähn has been Professor of Music and Sound at the Schwäbisch Hall University of Design since 2004 . Since 2010 he has been working as a reviewer for an agency for accreditation procedures for universities. He is also responsible for the conception of the Pop Music and Sound Art course at the new Munich Institute of Media and Musical Arts.
Projects and festivals
- Ensemble Klangstein together with Klaus Feßmann , ( sound stones ) and Manfred Kniel , (stone and water percussion ). The trio gives its concerts preferably in old churches and special places, including in Chicago, Brussels, on the Zugspitze , the Potsdam Jazz Festival , at the Swiss Expo.02 in Biel, and in the Salzburg Cathedral .
- (2003) Artist in Residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art
- (2004) subtropics experimental music festival in Miami.
- (2007) Workshop and Performance - University of Music in Málaga .
- (2009) Sonic Visions event series with audiovisual projects as well as electronic and interactive music in the rooms of the cultural organizer franz.K in Reutlingen . This is where Dähn's composition Spanish Cat for orchestra premiered in 2010.
Video art
- (2007) Score Visual Music Marathon in Boston
- (2007) Stuttgart at night as part of the exhibition: Luminescent Buildings, Art Museum Stuttgart .
literature
- audio.visual by Holger and Cornelia Lund with an essay by Friedemann Dähn: Audio.Visual - forms and possibilities Publisher: Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Sound carrier (selection)
Dähn's musical spectrum ranges from classical chamber music, jazz and electronic music to experimental rock and his own compositions for electric cello.
- Nachtmusik Edition Musikat, (2001)
- Aqua Klangsteine Records, (2003) with Klaus Feßmann and Manfred Kniel
- sektor a / b Klangsteine Records, (2005) with Volker Demuth
- Pantheon dml-records (2007) with Patrick Bebelaar , Michel Godard , Herbert Joos , Frank Kroll , Carlo Rizzo
- cuento dml-records, (2009)
- the brains 'endorphine' Way Out Records, (2009)
Works
- (2006) Furado for 5 identical instruments and tape
- (2006) Supercluster for piano, four players and conductor
- (2010) Spanish Cat kl. orchestra
- (2012) Cuento string quartet
- (2012) Lang's string quartet
- (2012) Aura for sound stones and strings
- (2012) AamH for 7-part choir and strings
- (2013) Crea for soprano, speaker, crotales and sine tones
- (2014) a few more for big band
- (2015) Wall Stream for 9 instruments
- (2016) 100 Dada for double orchestra, actors and live video
- (2016) 12 pages for double jazz ensemble
Individual evidence
- ^ Vita - Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
- ↑ o espaço do tempo - website of the Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta
- ↑ Completed projects www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
- ↑ camp 2010 www.hfg-karlsruhe.de ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 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.
- ↑ Events 2009 www.wkv-stuttgart.de
- ^ Fried Dähn & Onomatopoeia Perturbation Consort. Zappanale, accessed March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Professorship at Schwäbisch Hall University of Applied Sciences ( memento of the original from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Friedemann Dähn - Experimental sound collages ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt (April 7, 2010)
- ↑ Website subtropics experimental music festival
- ^ Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen - Concerts
- ↑ World premiere Spanish Cat - surreal soundscape for a silent movie
- ↑ Schedule - Visual Music Marathon ( Memento of the original from July 20, 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.
- ↑ Shining Buildings (2006), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- ↑ Book presentation at fluctuating images
Web links
- Works by Friedemann Dähn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fried Dähn's website
- CAMP Festival (Creative Arts and Music Project)
- Visual Music Festival - Seeing sounds, hearing images in: DIE ZEIT (April 28, 2011 No. 18) Retrieved on May 27, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dähn, Friedemann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dähn, Fried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cellist, composer and sound artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |