Karl-Heinz Blomann

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Karl-Heinz Blomann (* 1955 in Wanne-Eickel ) is a German musician , composer , alto saxophonist and producer .

Life

Blomann studied at the University of Dortmund pedagogy , later in Duisburg at the Polytechnic Music and at the University of Bochum Theater, Film and Television Studies (TFF).

In 1976 he founded the band Pöhl Musik and in 1983 the music publisher AufRuhr Records , which has since produced around 20 albums by various artists. Pöhl Musik made numerous tours, such as B. through South America, Europe and played 1989 at the Next Wave Festival in New York.

Blomann has produced numerous radio plays, as well as written theater and film music. For the "Sound Sculptures" project, he and Olaf Bruske, Rainer Grund, Birger Kluge and Jörg Peters received the 1989 DGB Culture Prize in 1989.

Since 1997 he has been the artistic director of the festival open systems .

He works in different contexts with ever new concepts on topics such as art and technology, man and machine and urban sound spaces.

Projects

  • Sound Spaces , 1991, commissioned work for the 24th Evangelical Church Congress
  • Mécanique Mon Amour , 1993, commissioned work for the Rheinische Musikfest Essen
  • Hearing a neglected art , 1996, book with CD "Vom Aufstand des Ohrs"
  • Aspects of Law and Order , 1999, CD-ROM
  • Chase , world premiere at the open systems festival 2000
  • Kill Pop , 2000, radio play with Willi Thomczyk
  • The third hammer blow , 2006, audio piece for WDR 3 Studio Acoustic Art
  • Art's Birthday: Sometimes Pumpstation , 2007, composition a. Performance with Richard Ortmann
  • Flussklang: Riversound 2008 , four Ars Acoustica productions with Jon Rose and Michael Rodach
  • Flussklang: Riversound 2010 , four Ars Acoustica productions with Gilles Aubry and Thomas Gerwin
  • Biryani Train , 2010, soundtrack CD with Claas Hanson
  • Upgrade 4.0 , 2011, international sound and performance project, Pumpwerk Dortmund Evinger Bach
  • Open Mex: Soundsculptures , 2012, performance with Michael Schuon (monochord) and Hyun Jin Kim (dance)
  • Development of the EMSCHERplayer media archive from 2005
  • Concept for Emscher: Reloaded with Arnold Voss, Ralf Schumacher and Katharina Liebsch
  • Reflect Your Future , 2017, composition a. Performance with Richard Ortmann (BLOORT).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Riversound
  2. ↑ EMSCHERplayer
  3. ↑ emscher: reloaded
personal data
SURNAME Blomann, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanne-Eickel