Matthias Kaul

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Matthias Kaul (born January 29, 1949 in Hamburg ; † July 1, 2020 ) was a German percussionist and composer .

Life

Matthias Kaul came into contact with music as a child by reacting playfully to everything that was heard in his environment. But “instead of falling under the spell of standardized classical music through early musical education,” he found his way through drums and rock music. After graduating from high school, he studied drums at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater and was a member of the Hamburg instrumental ensemble Hinz & Kunst for five years . Subsequently, and in some cases even during his studies, he performed as a guest percussionist with several North German symphony orchestras. Between 1977 and 1980 he traveled to Africa to study the traditional music of various tribes ( Xhosa , Samburu and Maasai ). In 1983 he founded the ensemble L'art pour l'art . From 1987 he played percussion instruments and glass harmonica at numerous radio recordings and festivals and appeared on CDs with his own works and compositions by other composers such as Alvin Lucier , John Cage , Vinko Gobokar and Christian Wolff . From 1990 he played as an improviser in a duo with the American violinist Malcolm Goldstein . He was the inventor of numerous instruments, including the Matthias Kaul "Overtonedrum" and the Overtone Triangle. "He not only built his own and often very bizarre instruments, but also made banal everyday objects sound." In 1999, together with his wife, flautist Astrid Schmeling, he founded the Winsen children's composition class. In 2018 he was accepted as a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg . Matthias Kaul died at the age of 71 "in the middle of working on an almost finished work" for the "Sternbild: Mensch" project of the "KlangForum Heidelberg".

Awards

  • 2003: Inclusion in the list of the best for the German Record Critics' Prize with "Bread and Roses"
  • 2004: Inclusion in the list of the best for the German Record Critics Award with "Toucher"
  • 2007: Inclusion in the list of the best for the German Record Critics Award with "Cover Versions"
  • 2009: Music education award for the children's composition class in Winsen
  • 2011: Young Ears Prize for the Winsen children's composition class
  • 2012: Annual German Record Critics' Award for "Made Durable"
  • 2012: Classic echo for "Made Durable" in the "Classic for Children" category

Works

Kaul's compositional oeuvre comprises over 100 compositions from the fields of chamber music, choir, radio play and music theater and is strongly influenced by his biography as a drummer. From the beginning he was an imaginative improviser and developed the range of his expressive possibilities in cooperation with other improvisers. Regardless of the prevailing currents in the centers of contemporary music, Kaul has always created his works through direct experience as a performing musician and rather experimentally sought new forms of expression. He has never studied composition at a university and instead, through his participation as a percussionist in orchestras and ensembles, got to know and carefully analyzed the diversity of the contemporary repertoire. “His composition lessons consisted of premiering hundreds of works by other composers.” “On the basis of works by Hans Werner Henze, Vinko Globokar, André Jolivet, Mathias Spahlinger and Mauricio Kagel, Kaul got to know a wide variety of aesthetic approaches, artistic perspectives and composition practices . “In addition, composers like Hans-Joachim Hespos wrote works especially for Kaul, which in turn influenced the all-round musician's spelling. “A love of experimentation and a strict rejection of stereotyped thinking characterize his work. If he expands the playing techniques of traditional instruments, then always regardless of any dogmatism. ”In the course of a long development, Matthias Kaul developed a composer personality who cannot be assigned to any school or direction and who, in its unpredictability and the desire for surprises, has grown up Embodied prototype of an individualist. As an artist, however, he never withdrew to the ivory tower, but rather combined his unusual sounds with a message that often had a socially critical or philosophical direction.

Chamber music (selection)

  • Listen this is for You, Kona - for drums and feedback bottle (2004)
  • Kafka's Blueberries - Imaginary Vocal and Instrumental Theater (2005)
  • Silence Is my Voice - for voice with oral loudspeaker playback (2005)
  • Delicatessen - for 3 players in a sausage stand (2006)
  • Some Changes - for voice, flute, guitar, drums (2007)
  • foreign, determined - for 6 vocalists with mouth speakers (2008)
  • Salty - for accordion double bass and tape (2008)
  • Sounds - for 6 players with 18 flower pots (2009)
  • Bell Air - for 6 percussionists with 36 bells (2010)
  • Wheeled - for 5 percussionists with 5 bicycles (2010)
  • Stuff from Above - for 4 percussionists (2011)
  • Recycling - for 5 percussionists (2012)
  • Concert for panorama horn and ensemble (2015)

Musical theater

  • Relax
  • Kafka's blueberries
  • Electric Bath - for a performer

Musical theater for children

  • Cuckoo in the suitcase
  • The ogre
  • Oliver Twist (2004)

Radio plays

  • Undine goes, with E. Bohde (1994)
  • Fugue with some freedom, with E. Bohde (1996)
  • The Book of Beautiful Voices, with E. Bohde (1997)
  • Electric Bath - for a bathing drummer (2003-2004, WDR)
  • Some Rooms in my room (2006; WDR first broadcast 2007)
  • Audible Edibles (2009, WDR)
  • Schrammen (2011, WDR first broadcast)
  • Enclosed space (2013; HR first broadcast 2013)
  • Fake Dimensions (2013; WDR)
  • My Snare Drum gently weeps (2017)

Publications and discussions

  • Amadeu Antonio Kiowa. In: MusikTexte No. 86/87, 2000
  • Mazza. In: Amadeus 1, Klett & Lugert, Stuttgart, 2000
  • Tension and relaxation - Matthias Kaul in conversation with Bernhard Günther , in: Program book for the music festival “Rainy Days”, Luxembourg, 2003
  • Reading, what a pleasure - About the opera project Oliver Twist. In: Program book of the Hamburg Opera, Hamburg, 2004
  • Mozart is an attitude. In: Mozart at work, documentation about apprenticeship projects of Jeunesse Austria, 2006
  • The magic of the ephemeral. About low-tech instruments, art as risk and failure in beauty , recorded with Stephan Froleyks, In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 01/2007, p. 20 ff
  • Distant. In: fragmen - contributions, analyzes and opinions on new music, Saarbrücken (Pfau), 2007, p. 11
  • Did you stop? . or: The limits of freedom. In: Dieter A. Nanz (Ed.): Aspects of Free Improvisation in Music, Hofheim (Wolke) 2011, 53–59
  • The invention of music in relation to the world , recorded with Astrid Schmeling, In: (Hrsg.) ?: Composing with students, Regensburg (con brio), 2011

literature

  • Neele Hülcker: Matthias Kaul. In: Contemporary Composers (edition text + kritik at Richard Boorberg Verlag) 2016
  • Gordon Kampe : Some kind of way out of here - The music of the hearing addict Matthias Kaul. In: Seilanz, April 2015, pp. 37–41
  • Horst A. Scholz: Strictly determined. In: Ingrid von Beyme, Thomas Röske (eds.): Unseen and unheard - artists react to the Prinzhorn Collection , Volume 2 with reactions from literature, theater, performance, music, Heidelberg (Wunderhorn) 2014, pp. 139–141
  • Ludolf Baucke From Winsen into the world. On the thirtieth anniversary of the ensemble “L'art pour l'art” , in: NZfM 174. 2013, no. 6, pp. 66–67
  • Ludolf Baucke: Measuring the world begins with the ears. Matthias Kaul as composer in residence , program book Summer Music Days Hitzacker, 2010
  • Christoph Wagner: Transparent sounds. The renewed interest in glass harp, glass harmonica and verrophone , in: NZfM 170.2009, no. 5, pp. 42–45
  • Hanno Ehrler: I was kind of my own composer. About Schmeling / Kaul's composition class , Saarbrücken (Pfau) 2009
  • Booklet for CD cover versions, Kleve (only not) 2006. - In it: Heidenreich, Achim: Die Ewigkeit des Rock - about Matthias Kauls cover versions
  • Schmeling / Kaul (ed.): Works of the composition class Schmeling / Kaul , Hamburg (Hildegard Junker) 2003
  • Astrid Schmeling (ed.): Music for a city. The ensemble “l'art pour l'art” and the children's composition class Winsen / Luhe. A documentation , Saarbrücken (Pfau) 2003
  • Ulrike Ertle: Sounds against blows. In: Musik und Bildung 35. (94.) 2003, H. 1, 26–34
  • Astrid Schmeling, Matthias Kaul, Wolfgang Kahle (Hrsg.): Music from the mouth. Works of the composition class Schmeling / Kaul , Hamburg (Hildegard Junker) 2002
  • Stephan Froleyks: Wire, Hendrix, meat, frogs, sauce. In: Hörenmachen, Cologne (Thürmchen) 1996, pp. 58–60

Discography

  • John Cage - Variations II, Eight Whiskus, Music for Two Ryoanji (Matthias Kaul: percussion, glass harmonica); WERGO
  • Christian Wolff - Bread and Roses (Matthias Kaul: percussion, voice, hurdy-gurdy); Wergo
  • Alvin Lucier - Nothing is Real (Matthias Kaul: percussion, voice, piano); Wergo
  • Vinko Globokar - Toucher (Matthias Kaul: percussion and voice); Wergo
  • John Cage - Cage after Cage (Matthias Kaul: percussion); Wergo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Kolb: Drummer Matthias Kaul died. In: Jazzzeitung , July 4, 2020. Accessed July 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Ludolf Baucke: Measuring the world with the ears - Matthias Kaul, composer in residence of the 65th Summer Music Days; in a special publication in the Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung (July 2010) on the occasion of the Hitzacker Summer Music Days. Retrieved July 6, 2020
  3. ^ Obituary , accessed July 8, 2020
  4. ^ Matthias Kaul. A penchant for the crazy In: Deutschlandfunk, Leonie Reineke, March 8, 2015
  5. ↑ 11 questions to Matthias Kaul In: nmz Neue Musik Zeitung PRINT, 65th year, 9/2016
  6. ^ Matthias Kaul In: Schott Music - Authors . Accessed: February 17, 2018.
  7. ^ Matthias Kaul - news. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ klangforum-heidelberg.de , accessed on July 8, 2020
  9. ↑ Best List 4/2003 of the German Record Critics eV In: Musikwoche Berlin , November 20, 2003.
  10. ↑ Press release of the German Record Critics' Prize eV November 13, 2004.
  11. ↑ Best List 01/2007 In: Record Review February 15, 2007.
  12. ↑ Music Education Prize awarded for the first time ( Memento from February 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Musikland Niedersachsen November 10, 2009.
  13. ↑ Young Ears Prize awarded to innovative music education projects for the 6th time In: nmz Neue Musikzeitung kiz-Nachrichten November 21, 2011.
  14. ↑ German Record Critics' Prize awards twelve annual awards for 2012 In: German Music Information Center November 29, 2012.
  15. ↑ Up- and-coming artists receive Echo Klassik. In: Musik Heute July 10, 2012.
  16. ↑ https://www.jazzzeitung.de/cms/thema/portrait/ Retrieved on February 8, 2020
  17. ↑ Leonie Reineke: Matthias Kaul - A slope to the wacky; Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/matthias-kaul-ein-hang-zum-abgedrehten.727.de.html?dram:article_id=313636 Accessed on July 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kaul, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German percussionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2020