Peter Androsch

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Peter Androsch (2019)

Peter Androsch (born January 12, 1963 in Wels , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian composer , publicist , musician and visual artist who has lived in Linz since 1969 .

Live and act

As a guitarist and composer Androsch played already during his school days at the Academic Gymnasium Linz in various local (jazz rock) bands. During high school he began studying jazz with Adelhard Roidinger at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz and, after graduating from high school, economics at the Kepler University in Linz , but initially gave up both studies for a life as a musician. He worked with various musicians such as Günther Gessert and Wolfgang Fadi Dorninger and was part of ensembles such as Monochrome Bleu , So- and-so and the Ensemble Camorra , with whom he made numerous appearances and tours through Austria, Germany and the USA. Currently he forms the band Dr. with Didi Bruckmayr and Bernd Preinfalk . Didi , who is committed to free improvisation .

In terms of instrumental, music theory and composition, Androsch continued his education as a student of Harry Pepl , Werner Pirchner and Keith Goddard in Zimbabwe . It was there that Androsch dealt with the archaic music of the Tonga . Not least because of this, he gradually moved from his musical roots in jazz and pop music to so-called new music . The Festival of the Regions and the Linz State Theater under director Michael Klügl offered Androsch a platform for his first music theater works and operas . The composer Peter Androsch became known to a broad audience with the music for Andreas Gruber's film Hasenjagd - Out of cowardice there is no mercy .

In addition to his musical work, Androsch has also been regularly active in cultural journalism and journalism since the late 1980s . He wrote for the AZ / Upper Austria and the Tagblatt , among others, and has been making contributions to the social, political, economic and ecological dimensions of hearing and acoustic space since 2007. Androsch also teaches at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz .

His extensive interest in the acoustic sphere earned him the appointment of artistic director of the music division of the European Capital of Culture Linz09 . Androsch not only designed a multi-faceted music program with several large-scale projects, but also focused on dealing with acoustic space with the Hörstadt project, which still exists today . In the course of Hörstadt , On the 100th anniversary of the first publication of the Futurist Manifesto under the title The Acoustic Manifesto 2009 , Androsch drafted the Linz Charter for the Sustainable Design and Development of Acoustic Space with the City of Linz and initiated an awareness-raising campaign against forced sound reinforcement in business and catering establishments. In addition, Androsch established a museum-like world of hearing for Linz09 with the Akustikon , which was closed again in 2010 , the main attraction of which was two listening furniture called Polyphon designed by Androsch . The Polyphon I contained sounds from space, the Polyphon II audio samples of music that was forbidden in different epochs and cultures.

2013 founded Androsch with Bernd Preinfalk the music festival ashore , which has since annually in Freistadt and the two churches of St. Peter near Freistadt takes place. This resulted in the network of European advanced music n: eam , which maintains a lively cooperation with cooperation partners in Italy and Germany. In 2017, Androsch conceived and curated the international festival for reverb, space and music Reverb in Regensburg .

Androsch's extra-musical work co-founded the non-partisan platform Respekt.net in 2010.

Works

Due to its versatility, Androsch's oeuvre is difficult to survey in its entirety. A detailed catalog of works can be found on the website of the artist, who sees himself as a sound artist who deals with the creation, shaping and research of sound. Works for musical theater form a focus in Androsch's work, which also includes orchestral, chamber, film and stage music. It is available in the form of scores and CDs. Then there are the graphic phonographs, in which Androsch layers parts of manuscripts and scores to form script landscapes. The phonographs also include Androsch's large art-in-building project Linzer Schriften in Linz-Mitte, which uses the handwriting of outstanding Linz personalities to tell the story of another Linz .

Music theater (selection)

  • 1993: Bellum Docet Omnia , first performance on September 19, 1993 in Wartberg ob der Aist at the Festival of Regions
  • 1993: Complicated Tierer , world premiere on November 20, 1993 in the Vogtland Theater Plauen
  • 1995: The axis of the furnace - The St. Peter project , premiered on September 19, 1995 in the VOEST Linz at the Festival of Regions
  • 1996: Carved Holiness - Anton Bruckner and the women based on a libretto by Harald Kislinger , world premiere on September 17, 1996 at the International Bruckner Festival in Linz
  • 2001: Draftsman in the snow based on a libretto by Franz Blaas , world premiere on January 7, 2001 at the Landestheater Linz
  • 2005: Black Earth - Twelve Chants by Stifter based on a text by Silke Dörner, world premiere on October 22, 2005 at the Landestheater Linz
  • 2013: Spiegelgrund based on texts by Silke Dörner, Bernhard Doppler and Likurg, world premiere on January 25, 2013 in the historic meeting room of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna
  • 2016: Marx Eins , world premiere on March 5, 2016 at the Trier Theater
  • 2018: Gold Coast - A report to an academy based on Franz Kafkas A report for an academy , world premiere May 11, 2018 at the Theater an der Rott , Eggenfelden
  • 2020: The school or the alphabet of the world , world premiere on January 19, 2020 at the Musiktheater Linz

Chamber music (selection)

  • 2009: Trattato , world premiere on November 4, 2009 in the Brucknerhaus Linz at Festival 4020
  • 2010: La Voce della Stella / La Luce della Stella , world premiere on June 20, 2010 at Neuhaus Castle
  • 2010: Doble Paso Doble , world premiere on September 16, 2010 in the central library in Essen at RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture by the string quartet of the Duisburg Philharmonic
  • 2013: Himmel , world premiere on May 14, 2013 in the Brucknerhaus Linz
  • 2016: Crescendo , world premiere on September 17, 2016 in the Minoritenkirche Regensburg by Simone Beneventi and Tom De Dock
  • 2016: Marx Wagner chords , world premiere on September 24th, 2016 in the Minoritenkirche Regensburg by Ensemble 09

Orchestral music (selection)

Stage and film music (selection)

  • 1994: Hare hunting , film by Andreas Gruber
  • 2002: Who should I write to? To God? , World premiere on January 13th, 2002 in the Linz State Theater
  • 2013: Erich Lessing . The photographer in the rearview mirror , BBC documentary by Thomas Hackl

book

Awards

  • 1994: San Sebastian Film Festival - Jury Prize for Hare Hunt (Director: Andreas Gruber, Soundtrack: Peter Androsch)
  • 1996: Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government: Talent promotion bonus for music
  • 1999: Austro Mechana - Society for the Administration and Evaluation of Mechanical and Musical Copyrights GesmbH: Publicity Prize
  • 2000: Provincial Culture Prize for Music from the Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government
  • 2012: Nomination for the German Theater Prize Der Faust for the children's opera Friends

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linz is now declaring war on public address in the city , today , January 23, 2009
  2. ↑ Linz commits itself to the fight against acoustic annoyance , OÖN, 23 January 2009
  3. ↑ School-critical music theater by Peter Androsch in Linz on science.apa.at from January 20, 2020 , accessed on February 12, 2020

Web links

Commons : Peter Androsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


personal data
SURNAME Androsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Austria