Marcus Maeder

Marcus Maeder (born December 7, 1971 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist , researcher and composer . The main focus of his artistic work is on sound art and electronic music . As an author, Maeder writes on various topics in the media arts and artistic research .

Life

Marcus Maeder studied Fine Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Philosophy at the Distance University in Hagen and is currently completing a PhD in environmental sciences at the ETH Zurich . He is the operator of the music label domizil , which he founded in 1996 together with Bernd Schurer. Maeder worked as an editor and producer for Swiss radio SRF and has been a research assistant at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2005 .

At the ICST Maeder conducts research in the areas of sonification and acoustic ecology. He is particularly interested in the artistic making accessible and researching normally imperceptible phenomena in nature, especially processes that are related to climate change and environmental problems.

Marcus Maeder has received work and composition commissions from the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia and the support program sitemapping from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture as well as production contributions from the city of Zurich . As a radio play writer, Maeder realized productions for Austrian radio and Swiss radio SRF 2 Kultur .

Maeder's sound installation trees: Pinus sylvestris was shown at the UN climate conference COP 21 in Paris at the invitation of French President François Hollande . His installation '' Espirito da floresta / Forest spirit '' was presented in 2017 at the headquarters of the Inter-American Development Bank IDB in Washington. In 2017, Marcus Maeder and Roman Zweifel received an award from the STARTS Prize of the European Commission at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

Selection of exhibitions and projects

• 2020: Critical Zones, Center for Art and Media ZKM , Karlsruhe
• 2020: And the FORESTs will echo with laughter…, ERES Foundation , Munich
• 2019: Perimeter Pfynwald, Eco-Visionarios / Eco-Visionaries, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creation Industrial, Gijon
• 2019: treelab, Of Plants and People, German Hygiene Museum , Dresden
• 2018: treelab , Eco-Visionaries, House of Electronic Arts HeK , Basel
• 2018: Sounding Soil , Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern
• 2018: Espirito da floresta / Forest Spirit, Bosque da Sciencia, Manaus
• 2017: Espirito da floresta / Forest spirit, Inter-American Development Bank IDB, Washington DC
• 2017: treelab, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz; BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
• 2015: trees: Pinus sylvestris , UN Climate Change Conference COP 21, Paris
• 2014: trees: Pinus sylvestris , SoundReasons Festival, Outset India, New Delhi
• 2014: trees: Downy Oak 2 , Baum / Klang / Kunst / Mensch, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, with Ch. Kubisch , B. Traubeck, W. Ritsch
• 2012: trees: Downy Oak , swissnex San Francisco, workshop in Muir Woods
• 2011: The path to the left hand , a topographical radio play with Jan Schacher / Jasch, Musikprotokoll Graz and Shedhalle Zurich
• 2010: Curating the exhibition Milieux Sonores , Gray Area Foundation, San Francisco and Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
• 2008: Sonifications and compositions for the Nova light object in Zurich main station , a project by ETH Zurich
• 2008: Die Wunschmaschinen , surround radio play based on Deleuze / Guattari's Anti-Oedipus , 40 years 1968, Frankfurt and Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
• 2007: Davos Soundscape , a topographical composition with Jan Schacher / Jasch, Davos Festival 2007
• 2004: Transient Travels , installation and compositions in a railroad car, World New Music Days 2004
• 2003: Electronic Music Archive , an exhibition by Gianni Jetzer and Norbert Möslang (Voice Crack), Kunsthalle St. Gallen
• 2002: Music and sound design for Expo.02 , Expoagricole, Murten
• 1998: We Are Somewhere Else Already - Swiss Institute, New York

Discography

• 2017: non-human, CD, domizil 45
• 2015: Progeny , CD, domizil 41
• 2013: topographie sinusoïdale , CD, domizil 38
• 2010: annex , mini-CD, domizil 33
• 2009: Wire Tapper , CD / The Wire (Compilation)
• 2009: subsegmental , CD, domizil 32
• 2008: Opera Calling , CD (compilation)
• 2008: Die Wunschmaschinen , DVD, domizil 30 / ZHdK Records
• 2007: This ship in trouble , CD / online, domicile 24
• 2005: Transient Travels , VA, CD, domizil 23 (compilation)
• 2004: domicile vs. Antifrost life , - Live CD, domizil 19 (Compilation)
• 2004: Club Transmediale , CD, Data Error (Compilation)
• 2004: La Suisse , CD, SME (compilation)
• 2003: Bees & Honey , Andrey Kiritchenko, CD, Zeromoon (Remix)
• 2002: Quiconque , CD, domizil 17
• 2001: Poisonhats , CD, Arts Center Dublin (Compilation)
• 2001: Substrate CD , CD, Stattmusik (compilation)
• 2000: Institute for Fine Motor Skills : Various , CD, IFFM (Compilation)
• 1999: solipsistic_motion , LP, domicile 10

literature

• Marcus Maeder (ed.): Art, Science, Nature. On the aesthetics and epistemology of artistic-scientific observation of nature. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8376-3692-5
• Marcus Maeder & Roman Zweifel: trees: Pinus sylvestris , an artistic-scientific observation system at the COP 21. Zurich: domizil; ISBN 978-3-033-05381-6
• Marcus Maeder: The sound of trees , in: Christoph Flamm: Baum / Mensch / Klang / Kunst, Ritter Verlag , 2014; ISBN 978-3-85415-512-6
• Marcus Maeder (ed.): Milieux Sonores - Klangliche Milieus. Sound, space and virtuality. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag , 2010; ISBN 978-3-8376-1313-1
• Bruno Spoerri (ed.): Music out of nowhere. The history of electroacoustic music in Switzerland. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-0340-1038-2

Web links

• Artist's website
• Website of the music label domizil
• Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Zurich University of the Arts