Frieder Butzmann

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Frieder Butzmann after the live audio play "City of 1000 Fires" in Mannheim (2014)

Frieder Butzmann (born April 6, 1954 in Konstanz ) is a German composer , musician , radio play author and performance artist .

Life

From 1975 to 1982 Frieder Butzmann studied the basics of communication science in language and music and musicology and psychology at the Technical University of Berlin. He was a member of various bands (including Die Nachdenklichen Wehrpflichtigen together with Diedrich Diederichsen and FM Einheit ), built up Burkhardt Seiler's record label Zensor and worked on the restoration and acoustic documentation of analog synthesizers and effects devices at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), Amsterdam. Since 1979 he has worked as a freelance composer, radio play writer , actor, artist, speaker and crash maker .

Butzmann began to experiment with music as early as the late 1960s. An album with material from this time, Wunderschöne Rückkoppelungen , was released in 2004. In the late 1970s, Butzmann was one of the pioneers of German industrial . He was in close contact with bands like Throbbing Gristle , with whose founding member Genesis P-Orridge he also worked on the LP Confidant of the People (1981). Butzmann belonged to the loose group of the self-proclaimed ingenious amateurs . In 1981 he appeared at the Genialer Dilletanten festival in Berlin's Tempodrom and is also represented in the manifesto published by Wolfgang Müller in Merve Verlag .

In the first half of the 80s he performed internationally together with Alexander Hacke , who at that time was still called "Alexander von Borsig". The musical presentation was always accompanied by Super 8 films and film loops by the filmmaker Thomas Kiesel . From the mid-1980s to the 2000s, he often formed a duo with the author and artist Thomas Kapielski . A duo that was temporarily expanded into a trio by the musician and visual artist Sven-Åke Johansson or the artist and instrument inventor Nils Krüger .

From the mid-1980s to 2007 he taught at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in the subject of "Sound design in film, video and new media". From 1995 to 2003 he was teaching music and multimedia at the Berlin University of the Arts (today Berlin University of the Arts ).

Since the late 1980s, Butzmann has devoted himself increasingly to radio. The radio play “Radio Postnormal” was created as early as 1986 , in which his co-author Thomas Kapielski says that the lack of images on the radio should not be perceived as a defect, because seeing has an even greater defect. You only see the skins of things and only see them because that which lies between them and the eye is invisible. In numerous features with a more or less high narrative component, Frieder Butzmann has dealt with the materiality of this invisible. The natural physical properties of sound were also discussed (e.g. in the infrasound feature Musik + Destruction, 2000) as well as the technical conditions for their transmission.

In 1997, together with the curator and cultural manager Matthias Osterwold , Butzmann organized a festival entitled Komische Musik in Berlin's Podewil , with live concerts and music by Erik Satie , Karl Valentin , the Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra, Jerry Lewis , Joshua Fried , Hans Reichel , Clément Jannequin , Manon Anne Gillis , The Legendary Stardust Cowboy . The comic in its various meanings plays a role in Butzmann's work that can hardly be overestimated, as can be heard in his acoustic manifesto of comic music .

As a lecture traveler and performer, Frieder Butzmann explains techniques, procedures and equipment of the acoustic arts. As for example in his lecture We Hear Music or We're listening to music or in the television series Lost in Music in which he explains how a synthesizer works.

In numerous texts, Butzmann has dealt theoretically with music, radio plays and acoustic arts. His Lexicon Music by and large (MGG) , which parodies the title of the encyclopedia Music in Past and Present , deals with all the phenomena that have not found their way into the standard work, for example the Geronto Jazz , the Klingon Opera , the Comish Music as well as comic music . The work Film Noise , written together with Jean Martin, deals with the fields of perception of a medium.

Works

Sound carrier

  • 1979: Valeska / Spanish Fly / Waschsalon Berlin (EP, Marat Records)
  • 1981: Colorful wings (MC, iron gray)
  • 1981: People's steward (LP, Marat Records)
  • 1984: The girl on the swing (double LP, Zensor Records)
  • 1986: War Pur War (LP, together with Thomas Kapielski, Zensor Records)
  • 1992: Dive Bombers (CD, with Barbara Bloom, Blixa Bargeld, Jörg Straßburger and others, Zensor Records)
  • 1993: Fan Videos (VHS cassette, We listen to music, 4 songs about art, kick-off, etc.)
  • 1995: We continue to research (CD, together with scientists from the Berlin Science Center )
  • 1999: Colorful wings (LP, world class, re-release)
  • 2000: 7 world record attempts and 10 short radio plays (CD, Pharos Medien)
  • 2000: Concert for 14 child sewing machines in 10 movements (CD, publisher: Museum Kreuzberg)
  • 2000: People's representative (LP, Re-Isue in blue and white, 90% water)
  • 2001: Music for a baroque party - mix, mix the elements (CD, Hoanzl )
  • 2002: Die Wauwautheorie (CD, radio play together with Hermann Bohlen )
  • 2002: juHrop - opera in Klingon (not on record, but broadcast in full length on the radio. With Diamanda Galas , David Moss , Moabiter Motettenchor, Wu Jiang , Udo Scheuerpflug , Margarete Huber and others)
  • 2004: Wonderful feedback (LP, Vinyl-On-Demand, Friedrichshafen)
  • 2005: Anniversary single - 25 years of Geniale Dilletanten (7 ", together with Wolfgang Müller + Namosh , guilt structure, he is a punk star from 1979 and others, Monitorpop, Berlin)
  • 2007: Oi! Oi! Oi! - Nazi Punks Are Not Electric (7 ", together with Chris Lunch , Mauerstadtmusik, Berlin)
  • 2010: I'm A 7 Inch Single / I'm the Backside (Ultra Eczema, Antwerp)
  • 2011: … How time flies… / Blue waves / In a network (LP on 45, Pan Records, London Berlin Athens)

Books

  • 2009: Music by and large (MGG) , 272 pages, illustrations. Berlin, Martin Schmitz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-927795-47-1
  • 2012: Film noise - fields of perception of a medium , 267 pages, Hofheim am Taunus, Wolke Verlag, ISBN 978-3-936000-97-9

Radio plays and features

  • 1971: The machine is called Fick Fack, original audio play
  • 1982: A whisper goes through the world , audio tape play (SFB)
  • 1984: Wolfsburg on double LP The girl on the swing
  • 1987: The Musician Machine - The Farewell to the Avant Garde , Feature (HR)
  • 1987: Radio Postnormal together with Thomas Kapielski , (RIAS)
  • 1989: The Little Trumpet or The Left Ear is closest to the action together with Thomas Kapielski , Akademie der Künste (SFB)
  • 1991: “Eeeeeee tschp!” - The water sports museum Grünau (DS Kultur)
  • 1991: Head lacing machine Daniel Paul Schreber together with Wolfgang Röhrer (DS Kultur)
  • 1992: Böcklinblau together with Wolfgang Röhrer ( experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation , Freiburg / SWF)
  • 1993: Transatlantique together with Marie Goyette (SFB)
  • 1995: The life of Josef Stalin in the mirror of western pop music together with Bridge Markland
  • 1995: Die Wauwautheorie together with Hermann Bohlen (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 1995. The cyclical crisis in 1977 in the International Digital Radio Art series (SFB)
  • 1995: Fick Fack and the gods heap together with Zissy Grunenberg (SFB)
  • 1995: Sugar's NOT a vegetable together with Marie Goyette (SFB)
  • 1996: Art and madness together with Zissy Grunenberg (SFB)
  • 1997: Knowledge from noise - acoustic room detection in the series International Digital Radio Art (SFB)
  • 1997: Divine retribution based on texts by Carl von Linné , (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 1997: Seven world record attempts (SWF)
  • 1998: Cotton rib-white live radio play and song with texts by Thomas Hauser
  • 1998: From the nightingale to tinnitus - About the whistling in life (SWF)
  • 1998: The whistling in the forest together with Thomas Kapielski , (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 1999: The Manifesto of Comic Music or Can Sounds Laugh? , Feature (SWF)
  • 1999: Radio Postnormal / Live Live presentation at the SWF afternoon in Mainz Feature (SWF)
  • 2000: Music + Destruction - Deep Tones in Concert Hall Disco and Environment , Feature (SWR)
  • 2000: Between hearing trumpet and sudden hearing loss - Between loud and quiet in music and the environment (SWF)
  • 2001: The Spunkkrachlexikon - From, to and about hearing - No radio play No feature! But a lexicon! (with Friederike Feldmann , Thomas Hauser , Thomas Kapielski , Jochen Meißner ), (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 2001: Animal sounds , feature (SWR)
  • 2001: Unfinished Music - Alvaro, the singing nose , Feature (SWR)
  • 2001: seven attempts with a polaroid Based on a score by Hilka Nordhausen together with Max Glauner
  • 2002: House of Paradises - Popular Soundscapes (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 2002: Take a break - what's exciting about relaxation music? (SWR)
  • 2003: Winnaretta's early machine music - The sewing machine in music together with Hansdieter Erbsmehl (SWR)
  • 2004: God's Hollywood Orchestra - Music by and with angels in the film , feature (SWR)
  • 2005: There was a house in East Berlin - From the suitcase of the young talents , (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 2005: Look how he looks - observations at the border between humans and animals Feature, together with Barbara Eisenmann , (DLF)
  • 2006: Alethes Soundbeams - Ein Friedhofsgarten Chill Out Mix (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2006: human nonhuman animal feature together with Barbara Eisenmann (SWR)
  • 2006: The King of Geronto Jazz (SWR)
  • 2008: Dubai Attacks - News from 1000 and 1 Nights together with Barbara Eisenmann (SWR)
  • 2009: juHrop - Klingon Opera Radio Mix , (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2009: Trial day - songs from the land of discounters together with Barbara Eisenmann (SWR / WDR)
  • 2010: Machine winter resonance together with Barbara Eisenmann (SWR / WDR)
  • 2011: That's too sad, I prefer to sing something funny now - Hidden Talents in Berlin Retirement Homes (5 audio pieces)
  • 2011: Tututusmispäivä , Finnish version of taster along with Barbara Eisenmann. Realization and music: Iiro Ollila, (YLE)
  • 2012: Burtt's Family Combo (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2012: Onomatic Syllabic Speech Music - 11 techniques for the musical emptying of the meaning of language (SWR)
  • 2013: Driving Diving Dreaming Dubai together with Barbara Eisenmann
  • 2013: There is a plum hanging on the Christmas tree (SWR)

Short radio plays / broadcasts

  • 2005: Butzmann hears the phone ringing for Matinée (SWR)
  • 2005: Sick matches for matinee (SWR)
  • 2005: Sassa for book & CD Column One: “Archive I”
  • 2006: To Speak or Not to Speak (8 broadcasts: 1. The forest, 2. The singing fish, 3. The telephone, 4. The carpet, 5. The doll, 6. The clock radio, 7. The oracle, 8. The Litter)
  • 2013: The phone rings (13 direct mail items: 1. Barbie, 2. Die Rabin, 3. The radicalism of everyday life, 4. The telephone number, 5. Erna Berger, 6. There is a rustling…, 7. hot - cold (not broadcast ), 8. I saw her, 9. Shortly after Biesdorf, 10. My eye (not broadcast), 11. Sansibar !, 12. Dance samba with me, 13. Verhundsdeutschen)

Radio play compositions

  • 1994: Fauste by Wolfgang Röhrer based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Experimental Studio Heinrich Strobel Foundation / SWF)
  • 1995: Walpurgis Night by Wolfgang Röhrer based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (SWF)
  • 1997: Walla, the god of eternity, by Wolfgang Röhrer (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 1998: Thought line by Wolfgang Röhrer
  • 2001: Sweet porridge times three children's radio play by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm , director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Berlin)
  • 2006: Ghost song , children's radio play by Wieland Freund (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2008: 20,000 miles under the sea children's radio play based on Jules Verne , director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2009: Klaras Kiste children 's radio play by Rachel van Kooij , director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2011: Mallorca for then-catchers , 11 direct broadcasts by Ginka Steinwachs , director: Ulrike Brinkmann (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2011: Four in a fish belly by Hans Christian Andersen , director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2012: The greatest adventure of the waves , children's radio play by Christian Ulmcke, director: Götz Naleppa (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2012: The Diaries of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys , directed by Götz Naleppa (DLF)
  • 2012: Some poems and prose by Daniil Charms , throwing broadcasts, directed by Judith Lorentz (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2013: Haudrauf and Mariechen , children's radio play by Anna-Luise Böhm, director: Beatrix Ackers (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2013: The Last Lacony by Max Goldt , (11 directing broadcasts) direction and composition (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
  • 2014: Pontormos Sintflut by Michael Glasmeier , realization and composition (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement Deutschlandradio Manifesto of Comic Music
  2. ↑ We're listening to music , live in Copenhagen
  3. ↑ The Synthi - Rearing and Care
  4. ↑ readable by Frieder Butzmann
  5. ↑ "JuHrop - A Klingon opera" by Frieder Butzmann. In: Swiss radio and television . Radio SRF 2 Kultur, September 10, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Frieder Butzmann: The Spunkkrachlexikon. From, to and about hearing. In: Deutschlandradio . Magazine. Radio play and feature, 2001, accessed January 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Butzmann, Frieder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, radio play author and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy