Lutz Glandien

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Lutz Glandien (born June 4, 1954 in Oebisfelde ) is a contemporary German composer.

Life

Glandien studied composition from 1979 to 1983 with Wolfram Heicking at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin and from 1985 to 1987 with Georg Katzer in the master class of the Academy of Arts (Berlin) . The tradition of the "experimental song theater" of the GDR forms the background for his musical development. Between 1977 and 1983 he worked as a composer, musician and actor with the Dresden group “schicht ”- a particularly distinguished song theater. From this time his claim resulted that music is essentially a communicative art, which should be heard as often as possible and which one can think about or exchange with others in conversation.

Even then, Glandien began to design and build instruments for his compositions. With the political change he expanded his territory: He specialized in electroacoustic music , established his own recording studio and created the music for over 60 radio plays as well as for documentaries, videos, exhibitions, dance productions and sound installations. The acquaintance with the English drummer and producer Chris Cutler initiated his collaboration with musicians from the improvisation and the former avant-garde rock scene (e.g. Alfred Harth or Dagmar Krause ). His musical work is - in this respect similar to that of Heiner Goebbels  - as an example of the attempt by a composer of the academic-classical school to break the boundaries of his own musical-theoretical training and to take on new horizons of musical composition through calculated border crossings.

In 1987 Glandien received the main prize at the Prix ​​Voya Toncitch international composition competition in Paris for his piano piece 365 ; his tape composition cut received several awards (1989 composition prize at the International Forum of Young Composers of the WDR , recognition at the 4th Rostrum for Electroacoustic Music 1992). In 1990 and 1992 he received composition scholarships from the Berlin Senate for Culture.

His project Der Ring - A Music Theater , which premiered on May 24, 2013 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus, attracted a lot of attention .

Glandien works as a freelancer in Berlin.

Radio play music (selection)

Discography

  • 1995 - cut (tape composition), Es lebe (for tuba and tape), Weiter so (for string quintet and tape), 365 (for piano solo), And was it still still (for chamber ensemble). Performers: Steffen Schleiermacher (piano), Michael Vogt (tuba), Ensemble United Berlin, Ensemble Modern , Paul Daniel (conductor).
  • 1992 - Domestic Stories . Performers: Dagmar Krause (vocals), Fred Frith (guitar, bass), Alfred Harth (saxophone, clarinet) and Chris Cutler (drums, electronics).
  • 1994 - Scenes from no Marriage. Electroacoustic pieces . Performers: Jeffrey Burns (piano), Ensemble United Berlin, Chris Cutler (drums and electronics), Dirk Wucherpfennig and Edwin Kaliga (percussion)
  • 1995 - Chris Cutler, Lutz Glandien, Marie Goyette , Zygmunt Krauze , Otomo Yoshihide p53 (Recommended Records 1995)
  • 2001 - The 5 th Elephant. Virtualectric Stories . Performers: Michael Vogt (tuba), Chris Cutler (drums) and Lutz Glandien (electronics).
  • 2003 - Lost in Rooms. A Virtualectric Story . Artist: Lutz Glandien (Electronics).
  • 2007 - kyomei. String chants . Performer: Lutz Glandien ( monochord , body tambura , string bass, kantele , string psaltery and little lyre ). All instruments come from Bernhard Deutz's KlangWerkStatt, Berlin.
  • 2008 - Meg Finn and the list of four wishes , music for the radio play of the same name by Eoin Colfer , translated by Claudia Feldmann. Speaker: Jürgen Holtz , Dieter Mann , Stefan Kaminski, Claudia Eisinger , Thomas Schmidt, Ursula Werner , Christian Ehrich, Hilmar Eichhorn . Hamburg, Audiobook Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-86742-636-7

Filmography

literature

  • Stefan Amzoll : A whole from scattered things, the portrait of the composer Lutz Glandien . In: MusikTexte , Heft 104, 2005, pp. 5–14

Web links

supporting documents

  1. Radio Play Day : Do Fish Sleep? by Jens Raschke , Deutschlandradio Kultur April 14, 2017, accessed July 4, 2018