Martin Wieland

Martin Wieland during the recording in the Bauer Studios

Christoph Martin Wieland (born April 12, 1945 in Stuttgart ) is a German sound engineer .

Life

Wieland first sang in a choir. Then he played Dixieland . After studying sound engineering at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , he started at Bauer Studios in 1969 , where he was employed for 23 years. Through commissions from ECM Records , he specialized in the genre of jazz music . He then worked for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . He has been retired since 2002.

During his time at Bauer Studios he worked with artists of various genres, including Beny Rehmann , Trio Eugster , Ernst Mosch , Oscar Peterson , Pat Metheny , Keith Jarrett , Die Flippers , Eugen Cicero , Gary Burton , Friedrich Gulda , Chick Corea , Miles Davis , Philip Glass , Steve Reich but also with countless clubs and small labels. For more than ten years he was in charge of the sound for Bayerischer Rundfunk for the live broadcasts of the Munich Piano Summer . Most of the recordings he made at Manfred Eicher's request for the music label ECM Records. In the early 1970s, the collaboration developed into a consistent sound for the label, which for a long time was considered unique.

Among his most successful recordings heard The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett , he with only two Neumann -U-67 condenser microphones and a portable Telefunken M-5 tape machine picked up.

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