Peter Kiefer (composer)

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Peter Kiefer (2006)

Peter Kiefer (* 1961 in Aachen ) is a German composer and sound artist .

Kiefer studied composition with Herbert Nobis and classical percussion with Josef Offelder at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, as well as music , theater studies and philosophy at the University of Cologne . Since 2001 he has been teaching as a professor specializing in New Music / New Media at what was then the interdisciplinary department “ Academy of Fine Arts ” and the Mainz University of Music at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. At the Mainz University of Music , he has been the head of the new master's degree in Sound Art Composition since 2009 . From 2001-2004 Kiefer taught as professor and head of the "MusicDept." At the Cologne Academy of Media Arts .

In his compositions for instruments and electronics, the focus is always on space. His projects include Ex Maccina (with Fabbrizio Plessi ) at the Venice Biennale and the film music La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg. In his orchestral work from 2016 together ... / - not with me! he used a 5-channel room reproduction with sounds from 76 years of German history, which was specially tailored to the interior of the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic, which was designed for room music.

Exhibitions of his work as a sound artist were presented by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Brückenmusik X in Cologne, Soundart in Hanover and the Bauhütte Klangzeit in Wuppertal.

He is curator and advisor to museums in Germany, France, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg and Switzerland and was artistic director of the festival "Klangraum-Raumklang 2004" in Cologne.

The book Klangraum der Kunst, edited by him, on the aspects of space in sound art, was published by Kehrer-Verlag in May 2010 and is currently out of print.

Since 2018, Peter Kiefer has headed the ARS Art - Research - Sound Website ARS project funded by the Gutenberg Research College of Johannes Gutenberg University, with the project components CUPRAS Cultural Practice of Sound in the context of Sound Art and Sound Research. In this context he was also artistic director of the GUSAC Gutenberg Sound Art Academy festival in Mainz in 2019. Website GUSAC

In 2019 Kiefer was elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz .

Works (selection)

  • > liquid borders <, 4 steel objects, loudspeakers, sound composition. For the Academy Day 2019 "The Sound of Europe" [1] in the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , July 17 - August 6, 2019. Further exhibitions: Gutenberg Sound Art Academy , Johannes Gutenberg University , Mainz August 2019. Since September 2019 the installation is permanently in the garden of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.
  • > resonating identities <, for self-playing piano, trumpet, percussion, piano, computer, 6-channel sound projection, composition commission for the ceremony of the academy day, premiere Mainz July 17, 2019.
  • Looking at gravel, sound sculpture made of sound composition, wooden pedestal, gravel, loudspeakers, headphones in the Kunstmuseum Bonn for the Aestetic Thinking conference , December 2017. Further exhibitions: Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Global Composition Mediencampus Dieburg, October 2018. EHESS École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris Le son et la musique au prisme des sound studies , January 2019. Gutenberg Sound Art Academy , Johannes Gutenberg University , Mainz, August 2019.
  • together ... / - not with me! , for orchestra, soloists, 5-channel sound composition and optional children's orchestra, premiered on the 25th anniversary of German unity on October 3, 2015 in the Berlin Philharmonie.
  • »The measurement of the sky - 50 ° 21'36.4" N 7 ° 35'55.3 "E", light and sound space in public space for the Museum Night Koblenz, September 5, 2015.
  • »The measurement of the sky - 50 ° 08'25.6" N / 8 ° 23'34.6 "E", art and sound installations at Eppstein Castle as part of the international sculpture biennial Blickachsen 10, May 31 - October 4, 2015
  • 7 ways to destroy a 100-EURO note , transmedia installation with banknotes, various materials, sound, video. Musée Histoire de la Ville du Luxembourg , June 8, 2012 to March 31, 2013.
  • resonate , interactive light-sound installation. Sound composition Peter Kiefer / Kaspar König. Luminale 2012 from 15. – 20. April 2012 and the Night of the Museums on April 21, 2012 on a container boat at Holbeinsteg, Frankfurt. Adaptation for the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe as part of the exhibition: Sound Art - Sound as a Medium of Art, 7 September 2012 to 10 March 2013. Cooperation with the Mainz University of Applied Sciences.
  • Thou shalt not kill - You shouldn't kill - Tu ne tueras point , sound installation in the Bernisches Historisches Museum , Bern (October 6, 2011 to July 1, 2012) and from March 15 to September 15, 2013 in the cloister of the Musée de la Vie Wallonne, Liège.
  • Sound installation in the rhododendron grove sound park at the electoral castle Koblenz at the BUGA2011, April 15 to October 16, 2011.
  • SELF-LOUD: Peter Kiefer, Klangpendler , radio show Hessischer Rundfunk as part of the hr2 cluster, first broadcast May 4, 2010.
  • rush-hour , 2009-10, 24-channel sound space in the exhibition Nonstop, from March 2009 - extended until June 27, 2010, Stapferhaus Lenzburg, CH.
  • GRASLAND-SCHNEELAND , 2008, interactive mobile sound installation, Temporary Gardens 2008 “Aix-Arcadia”, June 14th to 29th, 2008, Aachen.
  • voices of spirituality , 2007, acoustic art, commissioned by the studio acoustic art, Kulturradio WDR3, first broadcast January 13, 2007, approx. 48 min.
  • Traverse Frequency , 2004, bridge music, sound installation in the three cavities of the Deutz Bridge , Cologne - with Peter Simon.
  • La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc for ensemble, multi-channel band and boys' choir. 2000, soundtrack for the film of the same name by C. Th. Dreyer from 1928, premiere 2000, Cathedrale Notre Dame, Luxembourg, approx. 120 min.

Publications

  • Peter Kiefer (Ed.): Sound Spaces of Art. With contributions by Barbara Barthelmes, Paul de Marinis, Golo Föllmer, Wulf Herzogenrath , Peter Frank, Peter Kiefer, Helga de la Motte-Haber , Volker Straebel and others. a. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-936636-80-2 (DVD video attached).
  • Peter Kiefer (Ed.): Klangraum - Raumklang. Aspects of international sound art in Cologne. Pfau, Saarbrücken 2004, ISBN 3-89727-264-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kiefer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound artist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen