Matthias Hettmer

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Matthias Hettmer (* 1973 in Marl , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German electric bass player and composer .

Life and work

Hettmer received electric bass lessons from Peter Sonntag in Aachen from 1989–1993 and composition and theory lessons from Istvan Nagy in Marl from 1992–1995 , before moving to Essen / North Rhine-Westphalia, around 1995–2000 instrumental composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music To study composition with Dirk Reith in the ICEM at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. Hettmer was the bassist of the Krause-Hettmer-Braasch-Trio (experimental music) from 1989-1993 and a member of Peter Sonntag's bass big band Bass In Colors from 1992-1995. In 1994 he played on the CD Bass In Colors and in 1994 played a tour of Germany for publication. Since 1990 he has been working and researching in his own recording studio. Hettmer has been working with the dancer Annelise Soglio on a wide variety of projects since 1999. As an electric bass player, he gives world premieres at home and abroad, works as a soloist and together with ensembles of new music, including the Ensemble Phoenix Basel (Switzerland) and the Ensemble Katarakt / Basel. In 2000 he founded Interzone perceptible together with the accordionist and composer Sven Hermann , with whom he was also artistic director of KopfHörer / experimental music electrovisual in Bühl / Baden in 2002/2003. His pedagogical work includes not only instrumental lessons on the electric bass: in his teaching assignment work with electroacoustic media and live electronics at the University of Dortmund from 2002–2003 he combined chamber music with group composition and dealing with electroacoustic producers. Hettmer lives in Essen.

Awards

"Back and forth" (setup solo) was selected for the 2000 Detmold University Forum for Young Composers . In 2001 he won the International Competition Trstenice 2001 with the same piece . In the same year he was selected for the sixth forum for young talents of the Society for New Music Cologne and the Ensemble Modern for the interpretation of the work ILI XV for solo electric bass by Sven Hermann .

Works (selection)

Solo pieces

  • Portrait for piano (1994), (premiere: 1994 Marl; piano: Stefan Sandfeld)
  • Solo for electric bass (1996/97), (premiere: 1998 Essen; electric bass: Matthias Hettmer)
  • torn for setup solo (1998/2000), (WP: 2000 Bochum; drums: Carsten Langer)
  • transform music for the body performance of the same name by Annelise Soglio (2002), (premiere: 2002 Cologne; e-bass: Matthias Hettmer)

Chamber music

  • Station 8 for 4 speakers and 6 percussionists (1995)
  • Parts of 72 for string quartet (1996), (premiere: 1996 Essen)
  • Hesse would certainly have thought of November for viola, soprano, clarinet, foliage and piano (1997), (premiere: 1998 Essen)
  • On the edge of for electric guitar quintet (1998–99), (Premiere: 2001 Ravensburg as part of the Bodenseefestival, Go Guitars )

Big ensemble

  • PAOKS for large ensemble (1999), ( WP : 2000 Essen)

Electronic music

  • Waiting in vain for 2-channel tape (1998), (Premiere: 1999 Essen)
  • Hall of Mirrors for 2-channel tape (1998/99), (Premiere: 1999 Miami / USA as part of the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival )
  • Electric Chair for 2-channel tape (2000)
  • ILI XVII electronic music to the piece of the same name by Sven Hermann (2001), (premiere: 2001 Essen)

Video sound installations / soundscapes

  • Splitterbruch ← SUPPORT , (with Sven Hermann ) (2000, WP Bühl / Baden 2000) 8-channel sound installation
  • voyage , (with Sven Hermann ) (2001, premier Berlin 2001) formal soundscape
  • Jeffrey and the sirens , (with Sven Hermann ) (2001, UA Berlin 2001) Soundscape Musique en tapisserie
  • Holstenwall , (with Sven Hermann ) (2002, premiere Amsterdam 2002) video sound installation for 4 random CD players with camera
  • prélude , (with Sven Hermann ) (2002, premiere Bühl / Baden 2002) video sound installation for 4 random CD players and a five-second looped film sequence
  • SyncModus , (with Sven Hermann ) (2003, premier Berlin 2003) Soundscape Musique en tapisserie
  • prèsogtaliyc , (with Sven Hermann ) (2004, premier Essen 2004) Soundscape Musique en tapisserie

Movie

  • Jeff Kowalkowski's cut up or shut up , video version of Interzone perceptible , 2001, UA Bühl / Baden 2002

orchestra

  • Music for orchestra (1994/95), (premiere: 1995 / medical orchestra under the direction of Michael Breugst / Münster)

Recordings

  • Peter Sonntag's Bass In Colors , Hot Wire Records - http://www.musikerpark.de/macherpark/hotwire/ HOT 9013C, EFA CD 12069
  • Interzone perceptible plays hespos , 2004 artists own / NRW distribution
  • Cataract , self-distribution via www.katarakt.ch

literature

  • Eva-Maria Houben : stitch - short and painful, in: Musik & Ästhetik, 8th year - issue 30, April 2004, Klett-Cotta • Stuttgart
  • Portrait IP in Bassprofessor 1/2002
  • SoundVisions, ed. Torsten Möller - Kunsu Shim - Gerhard Stäbler, Pfau-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89727-272-5

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hettmer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electric bass player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Marl , North Rhine-Westphalia