Peter Blegvad

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Peter Blegvad (2007)

Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951 in New York City ) is an American musician , singer-songwriter and cartoonist . He co-founded the band Slapp Happy , worked with Henry Cow and recorded a number of solo albums, many of them in collaboration with other artists.

Live and act

The son of the New York children's author Lenore Blegvad (née Hochman) and the Danish illustrator Erik Blegvad (1923–2014) grew up in Connecticut until his family moved to England in 1965 . a. out of concern about the possible conscription of her sons Peter and Kristoffer for military service in Vietnam .

Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore , both students at St. Christopher School in Letchworth Garden City , played in various bands. In 1972 Blegvad Moore followed to Hamburg . Together with Moore's friend Dagmar Krause , they founded the avant-garde pop band Slapp Happy , which recorded their first two albums with the German rock band Faust . In 1974 and 1975 Slapp Happy played two albums with the art rock band Henry Cow ; they also performed together. Despite the success, Blegvad also left the project after Moore to start a solo career. In 1982/83, 1997 and 2000 there were short musical reunions of Slapp Happy; and in 1991 the three musicians worked together on the television opera project Camera (based on an idea by Krause, music: Moore, text: Blegvad).

Blegvad went to New York, where he worked as a cartoonist and attended courses from Gilbert Sorrentino at the New School of Social Research . At the same time, he continued to make music and worked with different musicians. In 1977 he recorded the album Kew with John Greaves , the bassist for Henry Cow . Rhone on; They were supported by Carla Bley , Michael Mantler and Andrew Cyrille . In the 1980s he commuted between London and New York, recorded several solo albums and toured with the Golden Palominos . In 1995, Blegvad and Greaves worked together again and released the album Unearthed . In the years that followed, Blegvad recorded a number of albums, some in collaboration with other artists, especially former colleagues from Slapp Happy and Henry Cow. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Radio Free Song Club, a podcast format produced in New York City.

In 1977 Peter Blegvad began self-publishing the series Amateur , which developed into Amateur Enterprises, the “Bureau for Improbable Research”. In the 1990s, a collection of his short stories was published by Atlas Press under the title Headcheese . In 1992 he realized the radio play dr. Huelsenbeck's mental healing method (BR / SR / SWF 1992), which was written and produced by Herbert Kapfer and Regina Moths with the participation of John Greaves , Raymond Federman , Holger Czukay and Jon Sass . Between 1992 and 1997, Blegvad's comic series Leviathan appeared in The Independent . In 2001 parts of the series were published in book form under the title The Book of Leviathan . In 2010 the book was published in Mandarin (China Times Publishing), in 2013 it was published in French under the title Le livre de Leviathan . Blegvad's other comics and illustrations have appeared in comics magazine The Ganzfeld , in Ben Katchor's Picture Story 2 and The Phantom Museum: and Henry Wellcome's Collection of Medical Curiositis (Profile Books, 2003). In 2011, Blegvad developed the drawn book review format for the British newspaper The Spectator .

Since the 2010s Blegvad has been producing short radio plays under the title Static in the Attic for BBC Radio 3, which he describes as "Eartoons" (audio comics).

In September 2012 the London Institute of 'Pataphysics published a volume entitled The Bleaching Stream with interviews that Kevin Jackson conducted with Peter Blegvad.

Teaching

Since 1998, Peter Blegvad has been teaching creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Blegvad has been teaching Visual Writing at London's Royal College of Art since 2013 .

Awards

In 2000, Blegvad was awarded the Grande Gidouille by the Paris Collège de 'Pataphysique . In 2011 he received the Silver Sony Radio Academy Award for the radio play Use It or Lose It , a radio play about dementia. In 2014 the French translation of The Book of Leviathan was awarded the "Prix Révélation" at the 41st Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

Peter Blegvad with Anthony Moore (right, 2017)

Discography

solo

  • The Naked Shakespeare (1983, LP, Virgin )
  • Knights Like This (1985, LP, Virgin)
  • Downtime (1988, LP, Recommended Records )
  • King Strut and Other Stories (1990, LP / CT / CD, Silvertone)
  • Just Woke Up (1995, CD, East Side Digital)
  • Hangman's Hill (1998, CD, Recommended Records)
  • Choices Under Pressure (2001, CD, Voiceprint )

Bands and projects

With Slapp Happy
  • Sort Of (1972, LP, Polydor )
  • Slapp Happy (1974, LP, Virgin)
  • Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin) as Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
  • In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin) as Henry Cow / Slapp Happy
  • Acnalbasac Noom (1980, LP, Recommended Records)
  • Ça va (1998, CD, V2 Records )
  • Camera (2000, CD, Voiceprint ) as Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore
  • Live in Japan (2001, CD, FMN Sound Factory)
With John Greaves
  • Kew. Rhone. (1977, LP, Virgin)
  • dr. Huelsenbeck's mental healing method (BR / SR / SWF 1992, CD, Rough Trade )
  • Unearthed (1995, CD, Sub Rosa )
With National Health
  • Of Queues and Cures (1978, LP, Charly)
With The Golden Palominos
  • Blast of Silence (1986, LP, celluloid)
With The Lodge
  • Smell of a Friend (1988, LP, Iceland )
With Andy Partridge
  • Orpheus - The Lowdown (2003, CD, Pony Canyon)
  • Gonwards (2012, CD, Ape House)

Fonts

  • "Imagined, Observed, Remembered.", In: Picture Story , No. 2, New York: Picture Story, January 1968, pp. 16-22
  • Headcheese ( The Printed Head , Vol. III, No. 3), London: Atlas Press, 1994, ISBN 0-947757-70-8
  • "The Free Lunch", in: Chicago Review , Vol. 45, No. 3/4, 1999, pp. 130-133
  • The Book of Leviathan , Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001
  • The Phantom Museum and Henry Wellcome's Collection of Medical Curiosities , London: Profile, 2003
  • "Constellations from the Milk Museum", in: The Ganzfeld , No. 3, April 2003, pp. 98-109
  • Book of Imaginary Media. Excavating the Dream of the Ultimate Communication Medium , Rotterdam, 2006
  • “The Swimmers Nightmare. A conversation with the illustrator and guitarist Peter Blegvad ”, in: Jitter 02. Magazin für Bildgestaltung , Berlin: Jitter 2007, pp. 14–21
  • "The Wick", in: BOMB , No. 114, Winter 2010, p. 96
  • Objects of Knowledge, of Art and of Friendship. A Small Technical Encyclopaedia for Siegfried Zielinski ed. by David Link and Nils Röller, Leipzig, Institute for Book Art, 2011 (illustrations)
  • The Bleaching Stream ( Journal of the London Institute of Pataphysics ) (with Kevin Jackson), London: Atlas Press, 2011
  • Abecedarium: jewelry, vessel, device , Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2012
  • Le livre de Léviathan , Paris: l'Apocalypse, 2013
  • The Gypsy and the Poet (with David Morley), Manchester: Carcanet, 2013
  • "Three views - Imagined, Observed, Remembered", in: Uniformagazine , No. 1, Fall 2014, pp. 23-25
  • Kew.Rhone , Axminster: Uniformbooks , 2014, ISBN 978-0-9568559-8-5

literature

  • William Martin, “A Note on Peter Blegvad,” in: Chicago Review , Vol. 45, No. 3/4 (1999), pp. 134-135
  • Paul Gravett, 1001 Comics You Should Read Before Life Is Over , Edition Olms: Zurich, 2012, p. 586
  • Glenn Kenny, " Peter Blegvad Reflects on His Confounding Masterpiece 'Kew. Rhone. ' “, In: Wondering Sound , January 2015
  • Clive Bell , “Kew.Rhone. Peter Blegvad ”, in: The Wire , February 2015, p. 67

Web links

Commons : Peter Blegvad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Gravett, 1001 Comics You Should Read Before Life Is Over , Zurich, Edition Olms, p. 586 ( ISBN 978-3-283-01157-4 )
  2. ↑ http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/7481728/alfred-jarry-a-pataphysical-life/
  3. ^ Warwick International Summer School ( Memento from July 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rca.ac.uk
  5. ↑ http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/your_various_angouleme_prize_winners_2014_as_best_as_i_can_figure_out_from/
personal data
SURNAME Blegvad, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City