Jan-Peter ER Sunday

Jan-Peter ER Sonntag (* 1965 in Lübeck , Germany) is a German artist and composer . He deals with phenomena of acoustic perception .

life and work

Sunday began to learn the trumpet when he was seven . Since 1979 he has been doing experimental sound performances . In 1982 he was accepted into the trombone class of Heinz Fadle, then with Herbert Schneider at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and took part in workshops by Phil Corner, Vinco Globokar, Albert Mangelsdorff , Ray Anderson , John Cage and Alvin Lucier .

From 1986 to 1998 , Sonntag studied fine arts , art history (focus on new media ), music , musicology , composition , German , sociology and philosophy ( aesthetics ), mainly at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , with Rudolf zur Lippe , Ivan , among others Illich , Humberto Maturana , JPS Uberoi, Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann and Gustavo Becerra Schmidt.

In 1988 he showed his first solo exhibition. Together with Franz Erhard Walther , he carried out performances in 1989 and founded “unheard”, Verein für Neue Musik, Bremerhaven and “Oh Ton”, Oldenburg . He worked as an assistant (philosophy) at the "Karl Jaspers lectures on questions of" (1989-1992), was established in 1990 Tutor for media art at the University of Oldenburg Rudolf zur Lippe and did research in 1993 in an interdisciplinary research project of cognitive science to Space and perspective perception / theory. In 1991 he founded Edition HORCH together with Jens P. Carstensen. 1993–1995 he was artistic advisor at the Weimarer Klassik Foundation for experimental art and music in dialogue with current Nietzsche research. In 1998 he became an assistant at Mauricio Kagel and founded hARTware projekte (Dortmund).

Since 1996, Sonntag has been giving guest lectures and teaching a. a. at the Universities of Hamburg, Istanbul, Rotterdam, Oldenburg and Darmstadt (workshop for new music). In 2002 he founded the N-solab in Berlin. In 2007, he and Till Nikolaus von Heiseler started a series of salons “Narrations in the Electronic Age” at Tesla Berlin. Since October 2009 this series has been continued with the “ János von Neumann Salon”, in cooperation with transmediale and the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin.

Since 1990, site-specific, interactive installations have been created. Sonntag is particularly concerned with interfaces between the human body and technical and media systems. A comprehensive project is the sonArc :: project - the domesticated lightning bolt , with which he goes in search of the essence of electricity. In 2008 he opened the Ars Electronica with sonArc :: ema-RADIAL .

Sonntag lives and works in Berlin.

monograph

sonArc :: project. Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-931659-97-4

Awards (selection)

2008 CYNETart Award 08

2008 German Sound Art Prize

2007 Funding of the sonArc project, EU Culture 2000.

2006 “Coppa cannibale”, Stuttgart Film Winter Award

2006 Funding of the sonArc project, capital city culture fund

2005 Project residence at TESLA in Podewils'schen Palais, Berlin with sonArc :: ion-project

2005 nominated for the Sony-HD-Award

2003 Sound Art Scholarship from the Berlin Senate

2003 Project funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation for "Bowling am Tiber" in cooperation with Peter Carp

2002 Work grant for Rohkunstbau , Groß Leuthen

1999/2000 scholarship (composition) Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart

1997 1st place at the "1. Leipziger Improvisationswettbewerb 1997 “, as a duo (tb, p) with Sangeet T. Becker (p), University of Music and Theater - Felix Mendelson Bartholdy, Leipzig

1994 winner of a composition competition by Hans Joachim Hespos

1991 Prize of the University of Oldenburg (art history)

1989 Youth Jazzt Award Lower Saxony

Exhibitions (selection)

2015 Rauschen (Noise), Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2008 RAWextension f5, SoundART 2008, WDR-Funkhaus, Cologne
2008 AREyeM, MFF, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
2008 sonArc :: ema - TELEFUNKEN, Spectropia, Riga
2008 K-Invers, CREATE BERLIN, London
2008 PNEUMA, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl
2008 Bishkek Art Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2008 crossroads. nomadic knowledge & art strategies
2007 AdK - AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE , Berlin
2007 Borders & The Infinite, transmediale.07 , Berlin
2007 sonArc :: project In search of the essence of electricity, Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart (solo exhibition)
2007 Thomas Köner , Jürgen Reble, Jan-Peter ER Sonntag, De Vleeshal , Middelburg
2006 Expanded Media. Media in Space, Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart
2006 pong.mythos, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
2006 Media-Scape , Galerija Rigo, Novigrad
2006 Strictly Berlin , Berlin
2004 Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
2004 village to metropolis
2005 North by Northwest, Edith-Russ- House for Media Art, Oldenburg (solo exhibition)
2003 HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
2003 games - computer games by artists
2000 STREAM installation, Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart
1999 Lost in Sound, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea , Santiago de Compostela
1998 Reserves der Sehnsucht, HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Scattered Affinities, Apexart, New York City, NY
1997 October 1917–1997, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (England)

Discography (selection)

90 seconds of reality, DEGEM CD8, 960.208, LC 3738, 2005.
Rwl, tulpas, SELECTION, SCD 024, 1997.
Jan-Peter ER Sunday, green, HORCH, ldt. Edition CD and foliot, 1997.
Jens P. Carstensen, 4 wallpapers, HORCH / Q-Tip-MusiK, 1995, LC 8098
Sangeet N'Trust, Realize You're Free, O ILIOS MUSIC, 1995, LC 5127
Swim Two Birds, THE BLOODY THUMB COOKBOOK, veraBra records, 1994, LC 8098
Franz Erhard Walther, acoustic, HORCH 1 / Q-Tip-MusiK, 1993, LC 4888
2nd kind, ling-lin-garden, GDR, 1993, LC 7483
Jan-Peter ER Sonntag, collection from the Studiolo, 6 miniatures on VHS video
Swim Two Birds, APSION veraBra records, 1992, LC 8098
WEAREONE (sampler), Charly Records, 1992, LC 7479

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jan-Peter ER Sunday. Noise . Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. Accessed June 25, 2018
^ Son :: arc project . Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ( Memento from the Internet Archive of October 26, 2007)

personal data
SURNAME	Sunday, Jan-Peter ER
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck

[1] Jan-Peter ER Sunday. Noise . Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. Accessed June 25, 2018

[2] Son :: arc project . Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ( Memento from the Internet Archive of October 26, 2007)