Sabine Schäfer

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Sabine Schäfer (born November 13, 1957 in Karlsruhe ) is a German composer , musician , sound artist and media artist .

Artistic activity

Sabine Schäfer studied piano, improvisation and composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Günter Reinhold, Eugen Werner Velte , Mathias Spahlinger and Wolfgang Rihm , with whom she passed her concert exam in composition in 1992. She received grants from the Darmstadt Summer Courses , the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR and a graduate grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg . In the 1980s she worked as a composer-performer and founded the multi-media group “Panta Rhei” in 1983 with Helmut Bieler-Wendt . Since 1989 she has been a lecturer in improvisation and creativity training at the Karlsruhe University of Music.

In 1989, a DAAD scholarship abroad enabled her to continue her studies in the field of digital sound generation and room sound control at computer music centers in the USA ( CCRMA ) and the Netherlands ( STEIM , Institute of Sonology ). From 1990 to 1992 she developed the spatial sound art project “TopoPhonien”, for which she received the Siemens Media Art Prize in 1993. As part of this project, in cooperation with the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and the ZKM Karlsruhe as well as the hardware and software developer Sukandar Kartadinata, she created her own computer-based surround sound control system with which the artist realized a variety of sound installations . Her spatial sound compositions have been performed and exhibited in concerts as well as installations in Germany, France, Great Britain, Holland, Poland, Italy, Austria, Portugal and the USA. Her multi-channel compositions have been archived at the ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics since 2007 . Some of the works were set up by the artist for the sound dome, which was established by Ludger Brümmer .

Between 1994 and 2004 she produced radiophonic sound art and experimental audio pieces for radio, as a solo artist and as an artist couple with Joachim Krebs . There were productions with actors and artists such as Rufus Beck , Peter Fitz , Salome Kammer , Lauren Newton and Udo Samel , as commissioned works, among others for the Studio Acoustic Art of the WDR , the DeutschlandRadio Kultur and the SWR .

From 1998 to 2013 she worked as an artist couple together with Joachim Krebs in the field of spatial sound art, sound-light art and radiophonic sound art. The artist couple uses animal voices in particular as the artistic base material for their spatial sound compositions, which they receive from scientific sound archives and whose "inner" sound spaces, which are initially inaudible, are made audible through audio slow motion. Joachim Krebs developed an original method for this in the mid-1990s as part of his “Artificial Soundscapes” project and called it “EndoMikroSonoSkopie”. An essential basis for obtaining their artistic base material is their cooperation with scientists and scientific institutions. For the cooperation between ZKM and KIT initiated by Peter Weibel in 2009, they developed the launch project “MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No. 1". Your exhibition project "SolarSonical Insects # 2" with a public viewing of nature and science as art, which you realized in 2012 for the State Museum for Natural History Karlsruhe, received top funding from the "Innovation Fund KUNST des Landes Baden-Württemberg".

From 2004 to 2008 she was a board member of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music ( DEGEM ) and founded the online radio "DEGEM Webradio @ ZKM" together with Michael Harenberg, which she ran until 2008.

Since 2014 she has been continuing the work of the artist couple as part of her art project TopoPhonien.

Works (selection)

Solo works

Walk-in and concert sound installations:

Radiophonic sound art:

  • Sprach (t) dream - an endlessly woven band , 39 min., WDR , Studio Akustische Kunst 1996
  • MEIN (T) RAUM - a radiophonic paraphrase on the text of the same name by Franz Schubert , 26 min., SR 1997
  • Guided tour through the MC Escher rooms , 53 min., SWR 1998
  • Warped Visions of Lauren's Voice , 50 min., DLR Kultur 2000

Works with Joachim Krebs (1998–2013) since 1998 as artist couple <sabine schäfer // joachim krebs>, 2009–2013 under the name <SA / JO>

  • SonicRooms , Städt. Ettlingen Museum 1998.
  • AerAquaAngelusVox , DLR Culture 1998
  • Sonic Lines n'Rooms , Donaueschinger Musiktage 1999.
  • Sonic Lines n'Rooms No. 7 , collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe , purchased in 2001.
  • TopoSonic Lines n'Rooms , Festival "Inventionen" Berlin 2002.
  • TopoSonic Lines n'Rooms with Instruments , Ensemble TrioLog Munich Biennale 2002.
  • ProsaPhon (ie) - a sonotopological language-sound-consistency machine , SWR 2002.
  • AquaAngelusVox , Unna Sound Art Festival 2003.
  • TopoSonicSpheres - a surround sound composition , SWR 2004.
  • TopoSonicTunnel , collection of the science museum “ phaeno ” Wolfsburg, purchased in 2005.
  • … RaumKLANGraum… delimiting… , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 2006.
  • TopoSonicSpheres , Festival “Musica Viva” Porto 2007.
  • MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No. 1 , ZKM Karlsruhe 2009.
  • SolarSonical Insects # 2, 2012.

Discography (selection)

literature

Books

Writings and radio broadcasts about Sabine Schäfer (selection)

  • Ludger Hünnekens : Music and New Media - Sabine Schäfer's traces of sound in: "Media Art Prize 1993" Cantz Verlag Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-89322-601-X .
  • Rudolf Frisius: Spatial Sounds / Sound Spaces - to the electronic music of Sabine Schäfer. Portrait broadcast on Hessischer Rundfunk in 1994.
  • Dieter Daniels: Steps in the Dark - on the way to an interdisciplinary art in: "TopoPhonien" Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 1994/2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-54-7 .
  • Manfred Mixner : TopoPhonien - an audio picture , portrait broadcast in the Sender Freies Berlin 1995.
  • Ingo Wackenhut: From spatial sound to sound space - music and new media in: "Female composers in Germany" Inter Nationes Bonn 1996.
  • Helga de la Motte-Haber : An audio picture - Tableau I-III by Sabine Schäfer. In: "Music Psychology - Yearbook of the German Society for Music Psychology" Vol. 12, Noetzel Verlag 1996, ISBN 3-7959-0704-7 .
  • Rudolf Frieling: TopoPhonicZones - spatial sound installations by Sabine Schäfer in "Media Art Interaction" (CD-ROM and book) Springer Verlag Vienna, New York 2000, ISBN 3-211-83422-2 .
  • Simon Crameri: Of audio pictures and tone paintings in: "Paul Klee - Melody and Rhythm" Cantz Verlag Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1808-7 .
  • Annette Hünnekens: Nettle with lilies and room sounds in: Neue Landschaft, Patzer Verlag Berlin 2006. ISSN  0548-2836
  • Hanno Ehrler: Making the inaudible audible ... in: "TopoSonic Arts" Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-52-3 .
  • Julia Gerlach: The MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No.1 by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 06/2009. ISSN  0945-6945
  • Hanno Ehrler: Microstructural Cosmos: The installation “Microsonical Shining Biospheres No. 1 ”by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs. Portrait broadcast BR 2010.
  • Thomas M. Maier: Metamorphoses of Time and Space, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 03/2013

Writings by Sabine Schäfer (selection)

  • TopoPhonia. About becoming specific of space and perception. In: "Positions - Contributions to New Music" No. 37, Berlin 1998. ISSN  0941-4711
  • The spatial sound art project TopoPhonien. In: Congress volume for the international conference “ 1948-1998: dalla molecularola al bit: 50 anni di Musica Elettroacustica ”, Rome 1998.
  • Sound - Time - Space - Movement , (Coauthor: Joachim Krebs ) in: Organized Sound Vol.8, Cambridge University Press 2008. ISSN  1355-7718
  • Deleuze and the Sampler as an Audio-Microscope , (Coauthor: Joachim Krebs ) in: Philosophical Reflections on Recorded Music, Middlesex University Press London 2008.
  • Micro-sound architecture and colored light spaces , interview in: “KlangRaum”, Art and Church 03/2009 Springer Vienna New York, ISBN 978-3-211-99282-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Schäfer in the university lecturer directory of the HfM Karlsruhe
  2. ↑ The TopoPhonie Archive at the ZKM
  3. ^ Siemens Media Art Prize 1993
  4. ↑ Sukandar Kartadinata
  5. ↑ Music and acoustics of the ZKM
  6. ^ Zirconium System at the ZKM in Karlsruhe
  7. ^ The Artificial Soundscapes project series, in: "TopoSonic Arts", Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-52-3 .
  8. ↑ Addresses to the kick-off event of the ZKM-KIT cooperation
  9. ↑ MicroSonical Shining Biospheres No.1
  10. ↑ SolarSonical Insects # 2 with public viewing of nature and science as art
  11. ↑ TopoPhonia
  12. ↑ RaumklangObjekt “Hörbild” at the Bern University of the Arts ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 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.medien-kunst.ch
  13. ↑ Sonic Lines n'Rooms No. 7th
  14. ↑ SolarSonical Insects # 2 on the homepage of <SA / JO>
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, sound artist, media artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe , Baden-Wuerttemberg