Phon ° noir

Phon ° noir [reads: Phononoir] is the pseudonym of the German musician Matthias Grübel (born February 27, 1982 ).

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Matthias Grübel has been producing under the name Phon ° noir since 2004. In 2006 he released his official debut Putting Holes Into October Skies on the Belgian label Quatermass Records. The successor The Objects Don't Need Us was released by Sub Rosa in autumn 2007 . His pieces range between sketchy guitar pop, playful electronics and musique concrète . Fragmented instrumental passages and minimal text sequences meet rhythmically interwoven everyday noises abstracted from their origins. Numerous Phon ° noir remixes have also been created for other artists. Grübel reworked pieces by Alexander Veljanov (Deine Lakaien) and the American band Uzi & Ari, among others. His own pieces were u. a. remixed by Mikhail Karikis, Calika, Uzi & Ari and TG Mauss.

Matthias Grübel also publishes instrumental music under the name Telekaster, characterized by ambient textures and noise experiments. The debut album The Silent Anagram was released in June 2009 by Panic Arrest (UK). Telekaster is also and above all to be understood as a multimedia project. The second band member is video director Stefan Bünnig, and together they have already created several video / music works and numerous live events based on the combination of Grübel's spherical sounds and Bünnig's minimal real film sequences.

Together with the writer Jörg Albrecht , Grübel has also formed the Phonofix duo since 2006 . In performances, which are equally determined by music, videos and stylized presentations, the character of conventional literature readings is undermined. Radio play works are created according to the same aesthetic principle, the focus of which is always the attempt to make language and music tangible as aesthetic phenomena that are similar in nature.

In addition to working on Phon ° noir, Telekaster and Phonofix, Grübel also produces music for theater productions, most recently as part of the group Copy & Waste.

Discography

Albums

as Telekaster: The Silent Anagram , Panic Arrest, 2009
with Phonofix: Moon Tele Vision , Intermedium Records, 2009
Counting Raindrops: The Remixes , phononoir.de (free download), 2008
The Objects Don't Need Us , Sub Rosa , 2007
No More Sad Dreams EP , Lona Records, 2007
Putting Holes Into October Skies , Quatermass Records, 2006

Compilations

untitled miniature # 2 on The Silence Was Warm Vol. 2 , Symbolic Interaction, 2008
Slowdown on Sketchbooks Volume 1 , Urbanprovince Records, 2006

Radio plays

You can't always shimmer, my sparrow! (phonofix), Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2009.
A hundred thousand LoFi songs (phonofix), SWR2, jungle, 2008.
Moon Tele Vision (phonofix), Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2008.
Silberstreif [90s-Revival-Mix] (phonofix), broadcast on SWR2, Dschungel, 2007.
Vier Himmel, da (phonofix), broadcast on: Deutschlandradio Kultur and WDR 1LIVE , 2007

Theater music

The auction of No. 36 from Copy & Waste, West Germany Berlin, 2009
Tri Tri Tripli / Trans Europa Exzess by Copy & Waste, Theatertage Basel, 2009
Berlin Ernstreuterplatz by Copy & Waste, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, 2009
The Knowing , Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin, 2009
A hundred thousand LoFi songs , Theater am Lend, Graz, 2008
Those who know - a trailer , Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin, 2008
Glamorwolf , State Theater Mainz, 2008
Gropiopolis by Copy & Waste (X-Apartments Neukölln), HAU Berlin, 2008
H Ha Hamlet , bat, Berlin, 2008
Blood splatter // Silberstreif , Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin, 2007
We children from the main train station (Lehrter Bahnhof) , Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, 2007
The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge , Junge Schauspielhaus Bochum , 2005

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personal data
SURNAME	Phon ° noir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Grübel, Matthias (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1982