Peter Mergener

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Record cover for SOFTWARE-Music (Mergener & Weisser) appeared on the label Innovative Communication LP 1984, CD 1985. The computer graphics by MAPART (HOPeitgen et al.) Shows the world's first colored Mandelbrot fractal

Peter Mergener (born November 28, 1951 in Birkenfeld, Nahe ) is an artist who composes electronic music .

Artistic activity

For a long time he worked with Michael Weisser , with whom he released a total of 14 albums on the IC / Innovative Communication label founded by electronics soloist Klaus Schulze, first under the name Mergener & Weisser , then under the name Software . The music formation software deals conceptually with the emerging topic of "computer culture". The software cover and the artwork of all sound carriers (LP, MC, CD) show graphics by computer artists such as MAPART ( Heinz-Otto Peitgen ), Herbert W. Franke , Jürgen Brickmann , Able Image Research, Yoichiro Kawaguchi , Nelson L. Max, David Sherwin , Andy Kopra, Mental Images .

After the duo, known in the field of electronic music, broke up, they both went their own way. Peter Mergener continues to play and compose electronic music, combining light installations with his own sound installations. Among other things, he is also responsible for the “Mystic Night” at the Roman festival Bread & Games in Trier , for which the two “Nox Mystica” albums were recorded.

He has his very own style in electronic music, which has evolved over the years. His strengths are spherical intros, which often merge into rhythmic, very sequencer-oriented passages and now and then reach sacred moments (in the works from the 1990s).

Mergener mentions Tangerine Dream , Klaus Schulze and Pink Floyd as major musical influences on his work . Today Mergener lives and works in Heidenburg in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Discography

This is a list of the solo albums by Peter Mergener, for the albums that Mergener and Weisser recorded together, see the discography at Software (Band)

  • Creatures (1991) Cue Records
  • Passage in Time (1991) Cue Records
  • Take Off (1992) Cue Records
  • Live dates (1993) Cue Records
  • Creatures II - Let there be more light (1994) Cue Records
  • PCM Rhythm and Bytes (1995) Cue Records
  • Applause for Creation (1995) Cue Records
  • Best of Mergener (1996) Cue Records
  • Instinctive Traveler (1997) Cue Records
  • Noises in the Sky (1998) Cue Records
  • African Smile (1999) Prudence
  • Wet Places (2001) Prudence
  • Cruisin '(2002) Prudence
  • Nox Mystica (2003) Prudence
  • Lounge Control (2004) Prudence
  • Nox Mystica Live (2005)
  • Vitam aut Mortem (2008)
  • Phonetic Society (2011)
  • Robotic Instinct (2016)
  • Astronaut (2019)

Official collection of software music albums

  • ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Archive ComputerKultur Collection Weisser)
  • Kunsthalle Bremen (Archive ComputerKultur Collection Weisser)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The SOFTWARE story, interview of the music critic Thomas Hammerl with Michael Weisser, WhitePaperCollection, Edit 06, 2016 (Kindle edition)
  2. ^ Ingo Engelhardt, "Der Stein des Weisser" in New Mag, May 1991, pp. 73/74, in: Staatsarchiv Bremen (Sign. StAB 7, 278 Weisser, Michael)
  3. ↑ MusIC for the eyes of your mind - general catalog IC / DigItMusic GmbH, Bremen / Hamburg 1998, pages 14–15, 22, 48, in: Staatsarchiv Bremen (Sign. StAB 7, 278 Weisser, Michael)
personal data
SURNAME Mergener, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenfeld (Nahe)