Lars Kurz

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Lars Kurz (2011)

Lars Kurz (born December 21, 1965 ) is a German music producer, film composer and sound engineer .

Lars Kurz took guitar lessons from Peter O'Mara and played in various musical productions from 1985 to 1988 ( Jesus Christ Superstar , Hair , Westside Story and others). His project Art Beat (later Big Sleep ) was part of the Federal Republic of Germany's official contribution to the cultural program of the 1988 Summer Olympics, the Seoul Art Disco . From 1990 he appeared increasingly as a studio musician and radio play guitarist in works by Andi Ammer , Ulrich Bassenge , Maria Volk and others and began to compose film music.

In 1993 Lars Kurz founded the Noisecore trio Mars (not identical to the No-New-York-Band of the same name, which disbanded in 1978 ), which made three CDs and made a number of celebrated appearances. Mars played u. a. in the opening act of Primus and Bad Religion . Guido Lucas from the underground label BluNoise writes about his recording of Yes / Now (1997): “The first real Munich musician community after AMON DÜÜL II in Herrsching. I recorded the record on site in the living room with an old radio tube mixer. Unforgettable time. And I was one of them. Fat washer. Great live band. Everything was much better in the past anyway. "

The old Telefunken V76 tube mixer became Tonstudio1 , in which a number of radio plays were recorded under Kurz's technical direction. In addition, numerous pieces of music were created for children's radio plays and the Sonoton library.

In 2010, Lars Kurz launched his library label MassiveBass under the slogan Exquisite Music For Film , which stands for original music: "Artists produce high-quality formatted art for the mainstream market" (Lars Kurz). With alarming speed, the producer lines up album after album, in this respect Pete Namlook or Bill Laswell can be compared. His scores are characterized by use of unusual instruments like dobro , fortepiano , contralto clarinet or euphonium , but also use electronics and often carry a sublime Dub -Touch. A tuba album with the virtuoso Jon Sass and a CD with new compositions for Bavarian folk musical instruments such as dulcimer and jew's harp with the composer Wolfgang M. Neumann also appeared in his edition.

MassiveBass has been part of the Warner Music Group since April 2015 .

Discography

Sound carrier
  • Never Been There: Never Been There (electric guitar) (1987, intuition)
  • Never Been There: Ambience (1989, intuition)
  • Remix Germany. Single for WIENER magazine on October 3, 1990
  • Maria Volk: Goldberg a dozen deceptions (with Ernst Jandl , Max Goldt , Holger Hiller , Holger Czukay , Robert Fripp , The Horny Horns, John Sass, Mark Springer and others) (1991, Rough Trade)
  • Crack Jack Radio: Crack Jack Radio (1992, Transformer)
  • Mars: Eat your Guru (1993, Andex)
  • Mars: Psycore (1995, Enemy)
  • Mars: Yes / Now (1996, BluNoise)
MassiveBass
  • Walls of Sound
  • Electronic Noir 3-5
  • Art of Drone 1-3
  • Think tank 1-2
  • Micro Music
  • Yes We Scan
  • Synthetic textures
  • As well as a producer and / or composer:
  • Alpine Freak 1 (with Jon Sass)
  • Alpine Freak 2 (with Wolfgang M. Neumann)
  • Django - the Return of the Dirty Brass (with Pit Holzapfel)
  • Django - the Evil Brass Fights Back (with Pit Crab Apple)
Film music
  • Sendung mit der Maus (Director: Kristina Böttrich-Merdjanowa ARD 1992, 1993)
  • The Burning Snail (as Lars von Mars) (ARD 1996)
  • The megaclinic ( Hans A. Guttner , ARTE 2004)
  • Sean Scully: Against the Current (Hans A. Guttner, ARTE 2007)
  • Colors of Blood (Uli Hesse, documentary, 2009)
  • Happy journey (Hans A. Guttner, ARTE 2009)
  • One year at Vilsalpsee (BR, natur exclusiv, 2010)
  • Art comes from Need (documentary film) (Hans A. Guttner, ARTE 2010)
  • World of Animals - Wintering in the Alps (BR, 2011)
  • Survival in the realm of polar bears (Kai Schubert, BR 2011)
  • War of the ants (Stefan Geier, Arte 2012) (9 international prizes)
  • By day and by night (documentary film) (Hans A. Guttner, ARTE / ORF 2016)
  • Photographer X (Tilmann Urbach 2016)
Series
  • W for knowledge (ARD, 2009)
  • Tatort Teaser (ARD, 2010)
  • Grips Trailer (ARD Alpha, 2010)
  • The fascination of knowledge (brain research, Stefan Geier, BR 2010)
  • Virtually There (BBC, 2014)
Radio plays (musician / sound engineer)
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Overdrive (Andreas Ammer, BR 1990)
  • eschen young two (Maria Volk, BR 1990)
  • goldberg a dozen illusions (Maria Volk, BR 1991)
  • The king of the western swing (Britta Höper, BR 2003)
  • Sacer's disease (Ulrich Bassenge, WDR 2006)
  • LoveArtLab Rules (Mithu Sanyal, WDR 2010)
  • The Cruel (Ulrich Bassenge, WDR 2011)
  • Beer on the carpet (Ulrich Bassenge, WDR 2012)
Children's radio plays (composer)
  • Anna Angsthase ( Helma Sanders-Brahms , BR 1997)
  • Sandra Sandkind (Thomas Schmid, BR 1999)
  • Gloria von Jaxtberg and Rosa ( Rudolf Herfurtner , BR 2000)
  • König O. Wenig (Renus Berbig, BR 2002) (European Children's Radio Play Award 2002 Prix ​​Ex Aequo in Bratislava )
  • The witch sisters and the internet (Laura Feuerland, BR 2002)
  • Black Friday for Robinson (Klaus Dieter Remus, BR 2002)
  • Pollino and Pollina in Venice: The hunt for the magic gondola (2003, edition Kappa)
  • Mall Ball (Renus Berbig, BR 2004)
  • Football fever (2004 / edition Kappa)
  • The Witch Sisters in the Paleolithic Age (Laura Tierra del Fuego, BR 2006)
  • The secret of the wandering castle (read by Rufus Beck) (Eva Ibbotson, audio book BR, audio book publisher 2007)
  • The witch sisters and the old gods on the Nile (BR 2008)
  • Elfenspuk (Renus Berbig, BR 2008)
  • The wild dogs of Pompeii (Helmut Krausser, BR 2008) https://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/programmkalender/ausrichtung-548840.html
  • The Djinn from the Ring (Cornelia Neudert, BR 2010 / German Children's Radio Play Award 2010 http://www.presseportal.de/pm/29876/1712936 )
  • The Little Sun by Bas Ala Bar (BR 2010)
  • The mega-class monster class on a class trip (BR 2014, audio book CBJ-Audio) http://www.br-online.de/kinder/musik-geschichten/hoerbuch/2014/04107/
  • Music for "The Sunday Chicken" (BR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.blunoise.de/bands/mars#mars
  2. ↑ Source: Own interview December 6, 2015
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112577/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
  4. ↑ http://coloursofblood.com/TEAM.html
  5. ↑ http://programm.ard.de/TV/arte/krieg-der-ameisen/eid_287248451022746
personal data
SURNAME In short, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer, film composer and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1965