Martin Kohlstedt

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The German composer and pianist Martin Kohlstedt, photographed by J. Konrad Schmidt in 2019
Martin Kohlstedt at the Gamma Festival 2017, Stepan Razin Factory, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Martin Kohlstedt's setup live in the Theaterhaus Jena, 2016
Electronic instruments by Martin Kohlstedt, live at the Fuchsbau Festival , 2015

Martin Kohlstedt (born January 24, 1988 in Breitenworbis ) is a German composer , musician , pianist and producer who works in his works with acoustic pianos as well as electronic elements, beats and the Fender Rhodes . He lives in Weimar .

Life

Martin Kohlstedt was born in Breitenworbis. There he attended the music school in Leinefelde from the age of 13, despite the rural environment, and also graduated from piano high school at the age of 18. He started with keyboard lessons in jazz .

Kohlstedt later studied media art / media design - studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar . In addition - and after training for interactive piano - he was a member of seven different band - projects from the environment of Zughafens Erfurt , u. a. Ryo , Karocel and Marbert Rocel . Yet during which he founded the music production company "Mamaro" on which he next commercial projects also movie - soundtracks and science fiction radio plays published. In the third semester of his Masters he dropped out to devote himself entirely to his music and the associated label.

In addition to his solo projects, Martin Kohlstedt also produces film music , plays at festivals and tours the world regularly as a solo artist. He played in Milan at the World Exhibition EXPO 2015 in the Germany pavilion and international festivals such as the Reeperbahn Festival and the SXSW Festival in Texas . He was also invited to the SoundUp Festival in the Russian State Library , Moscow , in 2016 , and to the Xjazz Festival in Istanbul in 2017 and in the Talar-e Rudaki in Tehran . As a pianist, the style that is typical of such live concerts is often described in terms of the open outcome of his performances, with his emphasis and expressive possibilities radically responding to the respective situation. Zeit Campus quoted him: "When I start to feel like a cowboy on stage, when I no longer play for myself, but just to meet expectations: break off, immediately. I have to go inside, towards weakness."

In 2016, he gave a live TV concert for the Russian television channel Дождь , and in 2017 Zeit Online published the first part of a music documentary by documentary filmmaker Patrick Richter about Kohlstedt (second part on Youtube).

In December 2017 Kohlstedt played a sold out solo show in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg . In 2018 and 2019, his collaboration with the Leipzig GewandhausChor received a lot of attention, both as a publication and in the form of a series of concerts in which he improvised live with the choir. The ZDF morning magazine described the experiment: "A great emotional wave sloshes back after almost 2 hours .. yes what? Concert? Classical rave? Sound flight? Musical adventure over thin ice of improvisation."

Solo projects and 'modular compositions'

Published 2012 Martin Kohlstedt his first solo - Piano - album "Day", which together with his successor "Night" was (2014) intended as a cohesive unit, according to his own words and include his work the first 26 years. His pieces are not finished, but develop with each concert . In fact, pieces and themes from these albums can be experienced live again and again in forms that are among other things electronically instrumented or interpreted differently (e.g.).

Kohlstedt himself calls this procedure a 'modular composition concept', in which the modules are each identified by 3 letters. The modules can be freely combined, which was demonstrated in the independent single 'OMBLEH' in spring 2017, whose core 'OMB' and 'LEH' come from the first two solo albums. The concept was presented by Martin Kohlstedt in the same year as part of a TEDx talk at RWTH Aachen University , in which he describes his idea of ​​musical compositions as conversations between the musician and the audience.

In 2017 Kohlstedt released his third studio album "Strom", which no longer only contains purely acoustic piano pieces, but multi-layered compositions with piano and electronic components. On the album "Ströme", which was released in 2019, both new and compositional modules from the previous albums are brought together with specially developed and partly also improvised choir compositions. In the interplay, Kohlstedt's play merges with the vocal corpus of the choir, says NDR culture editor Mischa Kreiskott: "The Leipzig GewandhausChor acts like a lively, polyphonic analog synthesizer here".

Collaborations

In addition to his solo albums, Martin Kohlstedt published several cooperation projects. In 2013 the remix album "Tag Remixes" was released and in 2015 the so-called "Nacht Reworks". This involved closer collaborations with pop and electronic artists such as Christian Löffler , FM Belfast , Hundreds and Douglas Dare . In 2017 he recorded a live session with Peter Broderick for NDR Kultur , which both musicians improvised without preparation.

Also in 2017, Kohlstedt, in collaboration with the Reeperbahn Festival and the designers Bloodbrothers and Elektropastete, created a visual-acoustic performance called "Currents", in which generatively generated visualizations were projected in a specially built 360 ° dome, onto which Kohlstedt in turn actively Game responded.

In 2018 Kohlstedt completed several public rehearsals together with the Gewandhauschor Leipzig , which culminated in the world premiere of several improvised works in the 2017/18 anniversary season as part of the “Two Play To Play” series. The project was further developed in collaboration with Warner Classics in March 2019 and released in the form of the album "Ströme".

Music label 'Edition Kohlstedt'

Kohlstedt created the music label "Edition Kohlstedt" especially for all his publications , which serves as a structural framework for various collaborations in the music industry. He mainly worked with distributors such as finetunes and Broken Silence as well as publishers such as Roba and Kick the Flame . In 2017 the third album "Strom" was released on his own label, but for the first time distributed with Rough Trade . His flexibly set up label with up to ten members serves to consciously distance himself from the more established processes of the music industry and should allow him more freedom of content.

Discography

Albums

  • 2012: Tag (Edition Kohlstedt)
  • 2013: Tag Remixes (Edition Kohlstedt)
  • 2014: Night (Edition Kohlstedt)
  • 2015: Night Reworks (Edition Kohlstedt)
  • 2017: Strom (Edition Kohlstedt / Rough Trade)
  • 2019: Ströme (with the GewandhausChor Leipzig ) (Warner Classics)

Singles

  • 2017: OMBLEH (Edition Kohlstedt)

Film music

Varia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Kohlstedt - The conversation / Top Thuringia. Issue 3, autumn 2015
  2. ↑ ARD radio play days portrait . ARD. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Private portfolio (out of date) . Martin Kohlstedt. Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / martinkohlstedt.com
  4. ↑ Official company website . Mamaro. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Reeperbahn Festival. Retrieved October 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reeperbahnfestival.com
  6. ↑ Blog about the Reeperbahn Festival: That was day four . NDR info. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  7. ↑ SXSW 2017 Schedule . SXSW. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt: SOUND UP . SoundUp. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ German pianist Martin Kohlstedt performs in Tehran . TehranTimes. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  10. ↑ In the cafeteria with Martin Kohlstedt: "During my studies, I rose like a crocus" . ZEIT campus. June 20, 2019. Accessed June 24, 2019.
  11. ↑ Пронзительное выступление немецкого виртуоза на Дожде . YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  12. ↑ Music documentary Martin Kohlstedt: Ambient is a youth in Thuringia . TIME online. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  13. ^ Martin Kohlstedt - Electricity (Chapter II) . YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  14. ↑ Thu, December 21, 2017 - Martin Kohlstedt . Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  15. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt with goose bumps feeling . ZDF morning magazine. May 6, 2019. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  16. ↑ Online interview 2014 . Chalalite. Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / chalalit.com
  17. ↑ ANT live 2015 . YouTube. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  18. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt - HARNAO (Live at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg) . YouTube. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  19. ↑ Music is like martial arts . Mirror online. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  20. ^ Witness Martin Kohlstedt morphing two of his songs into a brand new one called OMBLEH . Nothing But Hope And Passion. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  21. ↑ Modular compositions and musical conversations: Martin Kohlstedt: TEDxRWTHAachen . YouTube. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  22. ^ "Martin Kohlstedt - Electricity" . music express. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  23. ↑ "WITH PIANO UNDER THE CONSCIOUS TOUCH" . BR classic. May 2, 2019. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  24. ^ "NDR Kultur Neo - Martin Kohlstedt and the GewandhausChor: Stroeme" . NDR culture. April 29, 2019. Accessed June 23, 2019.
  25. ↑ Premiere: Martin Kohlstedt - 'GOL' (FM Belfast Rework) . Clash Music. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  26. ↑ Video premiere: Martin Kohlstedt - ELL (Christian Loeffler Rework) . Groove. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  27. ↑ Live performance in the video premiere: Martin Kohlstedt "EXA" (Douglas Dare Rework) . INTRO. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  28. ^ NDR Kultur Neo - Peter Broderick & Martin Kohlstedt . NDR culture. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  29. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt "Currents" in the Festival Village / Dome at the Reeperbahn Festival 2017 . YouTube. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  30. ↑ TWO PLAY TO PLAY . Gewandhaus Orchestra. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  31. ↑ MARTIN KOHLSTEDT: EXPERIMENTAL MUSICIAN. ABOUT SUCCESS . The salt of the day. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
  32. ↑ Martin Kohlstedt: The attempt to skip around the music business . urbanite. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kohlstedt, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, pianist, composer and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitenworbis , Thuringia