Klaus Janek

Klaus Janek (born November 26, 1969 in Bozen , Italy) is an Italian double bass player of improvised music and composer of experimental electronic music . He lives in Berlin .

Live and act

Janek first learned to play the flute and then to play the trumpet . Since 1988 he has turned to the classical double bass, which he studied with Mauro Muraro. He attended master classes and workshops with Dave Holland , Peter Kowald , Butch Morris and Jaribu Shahid . He plays the acoustic double bass as well as the electronically processed double bass.

He has performed with Kowald's local ensemble and at the Vision Festival with an ensemble led by Bill Dixon . Since 1994 he has also given solo concerts; after his first solo album Caspar² (2001) he presented another solo album Caspar² in 2004 . Further albums were created for edel classics, minor music , Solponticello and Ubiquity.

His sound research and work as a soloist, in various formations and for dance and theater productions is recognized and appreciated internationally. For the piece Apud by the Thierry Niang Company, Marseille, he composed the suite Lettera Amorosa (2002–03). With Claudio Rocchetti he was on a Southeast Asian tour (album Hong Kong Pavilion ). He improvised with musicians such as Borah Bergman , Toshinori Kondō , Johannes and Conny Bauer , Joe and Mat Maneri , Wolfgang Fuchs , Michael Zerang , Klaus Kürvers , Florian Bramböck , Christoph Irmer , Agustí Fernández , Andreas Paolo Perger , Roger Turner , LaDonna Smith and Wilbert de Joode . He also performed with the 17 hippies .

He also works as a sound designer for architecture and media ( arte , ZDF and 3sat ); he also composed film scores for documentaries. He was married to the dancer and choreographer Britta Pudelko.