Joachim Krebs (musician)

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Joachim Krebs (born November 27, 1952 in Karlsruhe ; † December 28, 2013 in Ettlingen ) was a German composer , musician , sound artist and media artist .

Artistic activity

Joachim Krebs studied piano (with Günter Reinhold) and composition with Eugen Werner Velte at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe , with whom he received his diploma in composition in 1984. From 1968 to 1978 he was, as a composer and musician (keyboards), a member of the German political rock music theater group "Checkpoint Charlie". He composed music and songs for speakers and rock groups using texts by Allen Ginsberg , Charles Bukowski and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, among others . From 1978 onwards he wrote instrumental compositions for orchestra and chamber music, for which he received national and international grants and prizes. All instrumental works from 1978 to 1989 are published by Peermusik Hamburg / New York .

In 1980 he founded the folk-jazz-rock music group "Sohra" ( Helmut Bieler-Wendt , Hakim Ludin ). Funded by the German Marshall Fund , among others , he completed study visits to India (Bombay) and the USA (New York, Washington, San Francisco) in 1983, where he was in contact with non-European musicians and American minimal music composers . In 1984 and 1986 he was a course leader for free improvisation at the International Summer Courses for Contemporary Music in Darmstadt (which he attended since 1978). From 1983 to 1985 he taught analysis, instrumentation and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, where he had been teaching free improvisation since 1986 .

His special interest in electroacoustic music was present throughout his artistic career. In particular, between 1994 and 1996, as part of his “Artificial Soundscapes” series, he developed an original process called “EndoMikroSonoSkopie” to make the sound structures of natural voices and noises that were previously imperceptible to the human ear audible - and thus also fruitful for one's own musical composition - close. This compositional technique gained increasing importance in the works that were created together with Sabine Schäfer . Since 1998 the artist couple <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs> worked from 2009 to 2013 under the name <SA / JO> in the field of spatial sound art, sound-light art and audio-video installation.

An essential basis for obtaining their artistic base material is their cooperation with scientists and scientific institutions. For the cooperation between ZKM and KIT initiated by Peter Weibel in 2009, they developed the launch project “MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No. 1". Your exhibition project "SolarSonical Insects # 2" with a public viewing of nature and science as art, which you realized in 2012 for the State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe , received top funding from the "Innovation Fund KUNST des Landes Baden-Württemberg".

The artistic estate of Joachim Krebs, including the original manuscripts of his instrumental compositions, has been in the archive of the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe since January 2016.

Awards (selection)

  • 1980 International Gaudeamus Music Week Holland
  • 1981 Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWF
  • 1981 Composition Prize from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
  • 1982 Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 1983 The German Marshall Fund of The United States
  • 1983 Beethoven Prize of the City of Bonn
  • 1984 Composition Prize from the International Viola Research Society
  • 1985 Scholarship from the Ministry for Art and Science of Lower Saxony
  • 1989 FRG scholarship German Academy Villa Massimo Rome

Works (selection)

Solo works 1968–1999

Works for speaker and rock group:

  • Self-defense , rock opera 1972
  • Hemorrhage , rock revue 1977
  • Spring of the Cripples , Rockrevue 1978

Orchestra and small instrumental ensembles:

  • Music for small orchestra , 1979
  • Burning frozen moments - triptych epitaph for orchestra , 1980–83
  • Dream herb , 1981
  • Slow Mobile , 1985
  • Open rings , 1989
  • (and slowly I cut my time out of silence) - Sketch about RD Brinkmann, 1989
  • Doubles and Echoes , 1991

Chamber music and solo instrumental works:

  • String Quartet No. 1 , 1978
  • Quartettomania , 1979
  • ... deep down - lost in a dream ... , 1979
  • Rhizome I , 1981
  • Splinters of sound , 1982
  • ... flowing together we sing the present ... , 1985
  • Music for accordion , 1986
  • Cello Lines , 1987
  • Quartet , 1989
  • ... Rufer - on the plateau ... , 1990
  • Alien Lines and Fields , 1993

Multimedia projects:

  • Fool's cartan with peripetia or a completely ordinary day in the life of the great Gurgler , International Summer Courses for Contemporary Music Darmstadt, 1988
  • Intermediate zones - signs - scenes - states , Multimedia 2 of the ZKM Karlsruhe, 1991

Electronic music and sound installations:

  • Body Reactions - Electronic Music No. 1, 1973
  • A diary - music for synthesizers, 1978
  • Intermediate zones - electronic sketches, 1985
  • Electronic Loops , 1987
  • Lines-in-between , Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe 1992
  • Eye-light-painting , “Projections” Karlsruhe 1994
  • Sound tunnel, “The Inner Ear” Linz 1995
  • Artificial Soundscape No. 1 , Sound Gallery of Sender Free Berlin 1995
  • Artificial Soundscape No. 3 , Hessischer Rundfunk 1997
  • Artificial Soundscape No. 4 , DeutschlandRadio Kultur 1999

Works with Sabine Schäfer , since 1998 as artist couple <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs> , 2009–2013 under the name <SA / JO>

Walk-in and concert sound-light installations and audio-video installations:

  • Tableau I-III , Berliner Festwochen 1995.
  • SonicRooms , Städt. Ettlingen Museum 1998.
  • Sonic Lines n'Rooms , Donaueschinger Musiktage 1999.
  • Sonic Lines n'Rooms No. 7 , collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe, purchased in 2001.
  • TopoSonic Lines n'Rooms , Festival "Inventionen" Berlin 2002.
  • TopoSonic Lines n'Rooms with Instruments , Ensemble TrioLog Munich Biennale 2002.
  • AquaAngelusVox , Unna Sound Art Festival 2003.
  • TopoSonicTunnel , collection of the science museum “ phaeno ”, acquisition 2005.
  • … RaumKLANGraum… delimiting… , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 2006.
  • TopoSonicSpheres , Festival “Musica Viva” Porto 2007.
  • MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No. 1 , ZKM Karlsruhe 2009
  • SolarSonical Insects # 2 , 2012

Radiophonic sound art:

  • AerAquaAngelusVox , DLR Culture 1998
  • ProsaPhon (ie) - a sonotopological language-sound-consistency machine , SWR 2002
  • TopoSonicSpheres - a surround sound composition , SWR 2004

Discography (selection)

  • Grüss Gott with a bright sound Checkpoint Charlie , LP CPM 1970.
  • Spring of the Cripples , LP Snowball Records 1978.
  • Joachim Krebs , portrait CD, Ed. Contemporary music, WERGO 1995.
  • AquaAngelusVox <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs>, CD / DVD MDG 2003.
  • TopoSonic Spheres <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs>, "artist.cd" Schott Music 2004.

Fonts (selection)

  • The spatial sound installations of the artist couple <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs> in: “The time in modern music and the adjacent arts” Pfau-Verlag Saarbrücken 2001. ISBN 3-89727-207-5
  • The Artificial Soundscapes project series, in: "TopoSonic Arts", Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2007. ISBN 978-3-939583-52-3
  • Sound - Time - Space - Movement, (Coauthor: Sabine Schäfer ) in: Organized Sound Vol.8, Cambridge University Press 2008. ISSN  1355-7718
  • Deleuze and the Sampler as an Audio-Microscope, (Coauthor: Sabine Schäfer ) in: “Philosophical Reflections on Recorded Music”, Middlesex University Press London 2008.
  • Micro-sound architecture and colored light spaces, interview in: “KlangRaum”, Art and Church 03/2009 Springer Vienna New York, ISBN 978-3-211-99282-1

Literature and radio broadcasts about Joachim Krebs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Checkpoint Charlie
  2. ↑ Joachim Krebs in the university lecturer directory of the HfM Karlsruhe
  3. ↑ The Artificial Soundscapes project series. In: TopoSonic Arts. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-52-3 and http://sonosphere.org
  4. ↑ Opening event “MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No. 1 "(pdf)
  5. ↑ MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No.1
  6. ↑ SolarSonical Insects # 2 with public viewing of nature and science as art
  7. ↑ Joachim Krebs estate in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blb-karlsruhe.de
  8. ↑ Scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
  9. ↑ Sonic Lines n'Rooms No. 7th
  10. ↑ MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No.1
  11. ↑ SolarSonical Insects # 2 on the homepage of <SA / JO>
personal data
SURNAME Krebs, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, sound artist, media artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2013
Place of death Ettlingen