Kalle Laar

Kalle Laar 2014

Kalle Laar (* 1955 ) is a German musician and performance artist of Latvian-Estonian descent. Together with Barbara Holzherr, he is the founder and operator of the Temporary Sound Museum in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich. Laar also performs as a DJ .

Live and act

Kalle Laar studied Medieval History and the History of Science at the LMU Munich and obtained a Master of Arts degree .

From 1989 he went on tour with the Japanese percussionist Takashi Kazamaki through Europe, the USA and Japan. They gave over 100 concerts and recorded several CDs. Laar released CDs with well-known artists such as Elliott Sharp , Christian Marclay , Samm Bennett , Tom Cora and William Parker .

In 1996 he founded the Temporary Sound Museum with Barbara Holzherr . Kalle Laar works as an editor for the Trikont label . He teaches architecture and sound at the Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Together with the Berlin artist Zeitblom he realized several projects such as Das Warheads-Oratorium (1997), Metropolis (2001), M - a city is looking for a murderer (2003) and Hangmen Also Die (2005). Metropolis was named Radio Play of the Year in 2001 and won a silver medal at the New York Festival.

Kalle Laar lives in Krailling near Munich and in Vienna .

Awards

• Award winner and scholarship holder for music from the city of Munich
• 2001: Radio Play of the Year for Metropolis (with Zeitblom)

Works

Musical work

• with Zeitblom: The Warheads Oratorio. Text: Romuald Karmakar , Michael Farin . Strunz Enterprises, Erding 2001, ISBN 3-934847-12-9 . (Broadcast from BR on November 28, 1997.)
• with Zeitblom: setting of the radio play Metropolis based on the novel by Thea von Harbou . Random House Audio, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-89830-416-7 . ( Review at perlentaucher.de)
• with Zeitblom: setting of the radio play M - A city is looking for a murderer after Thea von Harbou. The Audio Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89813-617-4 .

Discography

• with Takashi Kazamaki: Return to Street Level. With Elliott Sharp, Christian Marclay, Tom Cora, Nick Didkovsky , Paul Hoskin. (1990, Ear-Rational).
• with Takashi Kazamaki: Floating Frames. (1994, Bellaphon).
• with Takashi Kazamaki: Moving. With Kazutoki Umezu , Samm Bennett. Recorded in New York in 1994. (1996, Konnex).

editor

• La Paloma. One song for all. (1995, Trikont).
• La Paloma II: One song for all worlds. (1996, Trikont).
• La Paloma III. (1997, Trikont).
• Coco Schumann : double - 50 years in jazz . (1997, Trikont).

Web links

• Works by and about Kalle Laar in the catalog of the German National Library

• Website of the Temporary Sound Museum