Ludger Brümmer

Ludger Brümmer (born August 11, 1958 in Werne / North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music and director of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe.

A central aspect of his compositional strategy is the use of algorithmic operations in conjunction with multimedia elements.

biography

Brümmer studied music , art and education at the University of Bochum from 1978 to 1983 , before turning to musical composition and also studying composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University in Essen from 1983 to 1989 . In the early 1990s, Brümmer initially worked with the choreographer Susanne Linke for the Ballet Ruhrort and the Nederlands Danstheater Den Haag and Het Symphonie Orchester Amsterdam for the choreography ! Tristan und Isolde! and the orchestral composition Riti Contour , after which he followed a teaching position at the Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in the USA . In addition, in the 1990s he was a lecturer for composition, synthesis and analysis at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, the Electronic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin , the Archimedia Kunsthochschule in Linz, at the Institute for New Music in Bremen and at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague .

In 1997 and 1999 there was a collaboration with the video artist Silke Braemer and the media institute Interartes for the video Lizard Point and Le temps s'ouvre with the support of the NRW Ministry of Science.

Since 2003 Brümmer has been head of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Center for Art and Media Technology , where he has been working in research since 1994, and holds a visiting professorship at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe . Exemplary innovations in his work at the ZKM are cubic auditoriums that enable variable playback options for electroacoustic music, as well as the development of the spatialization software Zirkonium , which allows pre-programmed or real-time controlled spatial movements.

In addition to his work as a composer is Brümmer employed since 2014 with the project MyCity, MySounds where from geolocalised sound recordings with the help of an app Mobile any interested party will be given the chance to spot in the urban space sounds sounds, noises and voices with their own smart phone to receive and to connect this with the recording location, the genuine location of the sound, on a virtual map that is accessible online. This creates audio walks , through which one can experience the special features of the city and learn what seems imperceptible in the noise level of everyday life.

Musical work

Ludger Brümmer is one of the leading composers of computer music of his generation. He also integrates visual, pictorial and gestural aspects into his works as direct compositional materials. Brümmer exploits as many aspects of the combination of these means as possible on the multimedia design and expression level in aesthetic openness, whereby technical processes and creature expression are set in a complementary artistic relationship to one another as a humane concept.

The conceptual starting point for Brummer's work, at the center of which is the use of digital technologies in acousmatic , live-electronic and multimedia contexts, is a poetics of computer-based algorithmic composition . The renunciation of intuitively controllable graphic interfaces for sound modeling in favor of extensive formalization of the composition act in the medium of the program code is understood as an expression of a targeted and reflective elaboration of musical ideas, which of course should always remain open to corrective modifications and creative interventions.

Brümmer finds further important points of contact on the one hand in the computer simulation of physical models , on the other hand in the artistic appropriation of human physical movement. One of the main focuses of his work is the link between dance and interactive technical environments. The previously determined work structure is retained, but in terms of internal music, the sound events are generated anew with each performance, including the visual level. Pictures of the dancers, for example in the composition Shine (2007), are rhythmized and changed in shape according to musical specifications. The human gestures are confronted with the movements of physical models. However, while the dancers are framed as a duo on the stage in front of a fanned out triptych with the moving images of themselves, they control the sequence of the video sequences and the sound elements with the help of the fan laser.

Awards

• 1989: Folkwang Prize from the Folkwang Hochschule Essen.
• 1989: Prize for Riti Contour for large orchestra at the Forum of Young Composers of the WDR; World premiere in the Cologne Philharmonic by the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Directed by Dennis Russell Davies .
• 1990: Busoni Composition Prize of the Academy of Arts Berlin.
• 1991: Collaboration with the choreographer Susanne Linke for the commissioned work Ruhrort, in which the tape music for the dance evening was created. The work was then performed in around 10 countries on three continents, including Paris (Theater de la ville), Jerusalem, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Geneva.
• 1992: "Mentioni D'Onore" at the Luigi Russolo Prize, Pavese, Italy.
• 1994: Golden Nica of the Prix ​​Ars Electronica with the work The Gates of H.
• 1995: Honorable mention for Ambre, Lilac at the Stockholm Electronic Music Award.
• 1997: Pierre d'Or at the competition for electroacoustic music in Bourges for the work Phrenos .
• 1997: Larry Austin Prize from the International Computer Music Association, ICMA, San Francisco.
• 1998: Winner of the Rostrum for Electroacoustic Music, organized by the UNESCO Music Council.
• 1998: Second prize at the Prix Ars Electronica in the category "Interactive Art" for the work Sound Garden by Christian Möller with a musical environment by Ludger Brümmer.
• 1998: Among the "Best 50" at the Video Art Prize of the SWR television and the ZKM with Lizard Point (together with Silke Braemer).
• 1999: Honorable Mention at the composition competition in Bourges for Lizard Point in the film music category.
• 2001: Pierre d'Or at the Bourges electroacoustic music competition for the Nyx work .
• 2002: Award for credoXrequiem at the Musica Sacre, Friborg, Switzerland. Honorable Mentions at the Luigi Russolo Awards, Pavese, Italy, the Stockholm Electronic Music Awards and the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition.

Works

• Senza molti Emotioni (1984) for 3 electronic organs, 2 synthesizers
• Arena (1985) for violin, clarinet, flute, 2 trombones and 2 percussionists
• For E-Lisa (1986) for piano
• Swing (1986) for 4-channel tape and drums
• Etudes on Project I by Gottfried Michael König (1987) for 4-channel tape and drums
• TroTropforT (1987) for 4-channel tape and drums
• Rondeo (1987) for percussion
• Function Überfluss (1987) for string trio and percussion
• Riti Contour (1988) for orchestra
• Painted time with fractaled Ravel (1989) for 4-channel tape and percussion
• Resi's Trance (1989) for 6 flutes or 3 flutes and tape
• Zu Spät (1990) for 2-channel tape
• Pas Mois (1991) for 4-channel tape and drums
• Ruhrort  - Music for a choreography of Susanne Linke (1991) for 4-channel tape
• Le tombeau de Maurice (1991–1992) for 2-channel tape
• the gates of H. (1993) for 2-channel tape
• HiAnLo (1993–1994) for 4-channel tape and unusual instruments
• Ambre, Lilac (1994) for 4-channel tape and optional piano
• Le temps s'ouvre (1994) for 4-channel tape and optional piano
• Cri (1995) for 2-, 4- or 8-channel tape
• Dele! (1995) for 2- or 4-channel tape
• La cloche sans vallees (1992) for 2-channel tape
• Inner Cycle (1996) for flute, cello and piano
• Phrenos (1997) for 4-channel tape
• Lizard Point (1997) for 4-channel tape and optional video (Silke Braemer)
• Sound Garden (1997), multimedia installation by Christian Möller with interactive sounds by Ludger Brümmer.
• Eclats du silence (1998) for piano and violin
• → Thrill ← (1998) for 4-channel tape and optionally video
• de la nuit (1999) for 4-channel tape
• Medusa (2000) for 2 percussionists, 4-channel tape and optional video
• Particles (2000), interactive audio-visual sound installation by Christian Moeller with an interactive sound environment by Ludger Brümmer.
• Soundingout (2000), interactive sound installation by Christian Moeller with an interactive sound environment by Ludger Brümmer.
• surfaces (2001) for video, tape, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano
• Inferno der Stille (2001) for 8-channel tape
• Nyx (2001) for 8-channel tape
• CredoXrequiem (2001) for 4-channel tape
• Woodwind (1993-2002) for marimba
• Gestalt (2002) for 2-channel tape
• Xronos (2002) for 4-channel tape and 3 videos
• Schatten (2003) for piano and 4-channel tape
• Musica di Angelo (2003) for 4-channel tape
• Gesualdo (2003) for 4-channel tape
• Carlo (2004) for 4-channel tape
• Repetitions (2005) for 4-channel tape
• Three Ways to Watch the Waves (2005) for Pipa
• Repl (a) y (2005), installation
• Repl (a) y (2005), version for 4-channel tape and optional video
• temps du miroir (2004/2005) for piano, computer and optionally video
• move (2006) for piano and electronics
• glasharfe (2007), acousmatic music
• black (2007), Acousmatic Music
• Shine (2007), Acousmatic Music, Video, and Optional Dancers and Lasers
• Opus II - Etudes for Walter Ruttman's film (2007) for piano, violin, viola, cello, live electronics and tape

literature

Writings by Ludger Brümmer

• Audiovisionen 2004, Is space in music a reality or an illusion Roundtable with François Bayle, Ludger Brümmer, Denis Smalley and Daniel Teruggi on October 7, 2004, in: Audiovisionen, Volume 12
• Thank you very much, Mr. Newton! Music from virtual space mechanics , in: Angela Lammert, Michael Diers u. a. (Ed.) Topos SPACE. The topicality of space in the contemporary arts, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2005
• Audiovisual compositions by young artists: Rudolf Frisius and Ludger Brümmer in conversation with Damon Lee, Pei-Yu Shi and Claudia Robles ., In: Rudolf Frisius (ed.) Hearing and seeing - music audiovisual, publications of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt, Volume 45, Mainz 2005
• Description of the work Gestalt (on François Bayle's 70th birthday), 2002, in: Torsten Möller, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler (eds.), SoundVisions, Saarbrücken 2006
• Contribution to "Composition and Musicology in Dialogue V" (2001 - 2004), Signals from Cologne, "Contributions to the Music of Time", edited by Christoph von Blumröder , Vol. 23, Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungskolleg, Medien und Kulturelle Kommunikation, Lit Verlag Berlin 2006
• Three surround sound projects, implemented at the ZKM in Karlsruhe (interview with Elke Wisse), in: Tonmeister-Informations, issue 5/2007
• Production - Research - Multiplication. The tasks of the Institute for Music and Acoustics of the ZKM Karlsruhe , in: the NMZ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 5/07
• Overdue. Heinrich (Giga) Hertz and his award in the NMZ Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 5/07
• Conversation with Hans Tutschku; in: Vol. 12 of the series Signals , published by the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne
• Moments of innovation. Development steps in the aesthetics of electroacoustic music , in: ANKLENGE 2007 Between Experiment and Commerce. On the Aesthetics of Electronic Music ed. by Thomas Dézsy , Stefan Jena, Dieter Torkewitz Mille Tre Verlag, Vienna 2007

Writings about Ludger Brümmer

• Kerstin Jaunich: On the musical-artistic handling of new technologies using the example of the composers Ludger Brümmer, Paulo Ferreira Lopes and Kiyoshi Furukawa , dissertation, Stuttgart 2005.
• Achim Heidenreich, The Sound of Tomorrow. The Center of Art and Media in Karlsruhe Reinvents itself with Each New Activity , in: World New Music Magazine (No. 16), Contemporary Music in Germany, Saarbrücken 2006, pp. 74-78.
• Gerald Lingnau: Granulated sounds in the dome. Tomorrow's surround sound , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, June 11, 2006 (No. 23), p. 60.
• Ralph Paland: Personal article Brümmer, Ludger , in: The music in past and present: General encyclopedia of music, 2nd, revised edition, Ed. Ludwig Finscher, Supplement, Kassel / Stuttgart: Bärenreiter / Metzler 2008, Sp. 74–76. ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9 .
• Ralph Paland: Ludger Brümmer (biogram and work text), in: Composers of the Present (KDG) , 40th subsequent delivery (11/2009), Munich 2009, pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-3-86916-010-8 .
• Ralph Paland: Myths of the Electroacoustic "Revolution". Current historical constructions of music without a past , in: Premature animation, past and present reflections in music today , Ed. Jörn Peter Hiekel, Hofheim 2010, pp. 107-139. ISBN 978-3-936000-85-6
• Christoph von Blumröder : The music of Ludger Brümmers . In: Tobias Hünermann, Christoph von Blumröder (Ed.): Topographies of the history of composition since 1950 = signals from Cologne. Contributions to the music of the time, Volume 16, Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2011, pp. 248–265.

Discography

• The gates of H. , "Prix Ars Electronica", ORF, 1994.
• The gates of H. , "… Voices… Sounds", DegeM, 1994.
• la cloche sans vallées , "ex machina: le son qui s'arrâte le son éclaté, Vol.1", Cybele, 1996.
• la cloche sans vallées , "Computer Music Journal", CD Vol.2, MIT Press, 1996.
• dele! , "ex machina: tangent, Vol.2", Cybele, 1996.
• Cri , The Gates of H. , Le temps s'ouvre , Cri , Edel, 1996.
• Ambre, Lilac , "edition zkm 1". Wergo, 1997.
• Ambre, Lilac , "Streiftöne - Insights into 15 productions", CD-Rom, ZKM, 1997.
• Phrenos , "Cultures Electroniques 10", Le Chant du Monde , 1998.
• Le tombeau de Maurice , "Computer Music @ CCRMA Vol.2", Stanford University, 1997.
• Lizard Point , "Lizard Point - CDMC Computer Music Series Vol.32", ICMA Commission Awards 1997-99, Centaur, 2000.
• Nyx , "Cultures Electroniques 15", Le Chant Du Mont, 2001.
• TroTropf OrT , "ex machina: the eighties, Vol.5", Cybele, 2001.
• Medusa , "edition zkm 8: Surround Music", DVD, Wergo, 2004.
• Phrenos , Lizard Point , de la nuit , -> Thrill <- , Inferno der Stille , "edition zkm 9: -> Thrill <-", DVD, Wergo, 2003.
• Glass harp , "20 years of inventions VI", Edition RZ, 2007.
• Move , "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik", CD for issue 5/2007, ZKM, 2007.
• Move , "ZKM - hear, see and experience", 2DVD + CD, ZKM, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ zkm.de directory of persons. Retrieved January 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Christoph von Blumröder: The music of Ludger Brümmers . In: Tobias Hünermann, Christoph von Blumröder (Ed.): Topographies of the history of composition since 1950 = signals from Cologne. Contributions to the music of the time, Volume 16, Verlag Der Apfel, Vienna 2011, p. 248.
3. ↑ Homepage Ludger Brümmer: Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved January 21, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Christoph von Blumröder: Ibid.
5. ↑ MyCity, MySounds website. Retrieved January 22, 2016 . 
6. ↑ MyCity, MySounds repository. Retrieved January 22, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Ralph Paland: Personal Article Brümmer, Ludger , in: Music in Past and Present : General Encyclopedia of Music, 2nd, revised edition, Ed. Ludwig Finscher, Supplement, Kassel / Stuttgart: Bärenreiter / Metzler 2008.
8. ^ Brümmer, Ludger: Program Remembering Newtopia - Creating our Future , ZKM 2007.

Web links

• Ludger Brümmer at the music publisher Sumtone
• Homepage of Ludger Brümmer