Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware (born May 19, 1956 in Sheffield ) is a British musician and record producer and co-founder of The Human League , British Electric Foundation and Heaven 17 .
Life
Ware attended King Edward VII School in Sheffield and met Philip Oakey there. He gave up his ambitions to study after graduating from Oxford in favor of a commercial apprenticeship in a supermarket. He joined the Sheffield youth theater project Meatwhistle, which also included Richard H. Kirk , Ian Craig Marsh, Adi Newton and Glenn Gregory . The Metwhistle was an experimental project with theatrical and musical performances. From this project, influenced by the literature of William S. Burroughs and the glam rock music of Roxy Music , the performance music group Musical Vomit emerged, to which Ware belonged for a while before he founded the band The Future with Newton and Marsh . Initially close to progressive rock , in the summer of 1977 the music on the album Trans Europa Express by the German band Kraftwerk led Ware and Marsh to want to produce electronic music themselves. After Newton left and Oakey was recorded, the band renamed The Human League . As a composer, Ware was involved in titles such as Being Boiled , Empire State Human and Chase Runner and co-produced the first two albums, Reproduction and Travelogue . After breaking with Oakey in 1980, Ware and Marsh founded the production company British Electric Foundation and later, with Gregory, the band Heaven 17 , on whose most successful single Temptation he co-wrote.
Many of his titles have been used in film and television productions, including Electric Dreams and Trainspotting - New Heroes . He also produced for Tina Turner , Terence Trent D'Arby , Marc Almond and Erasure, among others . In 2001 Ware released the album Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle with Vince Clarke .
Ware is visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London , from which he also holds an honorary doctorate , and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and the Royal Society of Arts . He is married and has two children.
Publications
- 2011: Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (with Vince Clarke)
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- ↑ BEF at allmusic.com
- ↑ Simon Reynolds: Rip It Up And Start Again . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2007, ISBN 978-3-85445-270-6 . , P. 175
- ^ Reynolds, p. 174
- ^ Reynolds, p. 181.
- ↑ Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle at allmusic.com
- ^ Prof Martyn Ware, Visiting Professorial Fellow School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London. In: eecs.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved November 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Full Members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (updated September 17, 2012). (PDF; 275 kB) In: bafta.org. Retrieved November 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Institute of Contemporary Arts (English)
Web links
- Martyn Ware at Allmusic (English)
- Martyn Ware at Discogs (English)
- Martyn Ware in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heaven 17 website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merchandise, Martyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , Yorkshire , England |