Sebastian Lexer

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Sebastian Lexer (* 1971) is a German improvisation musician ( piano , electronics, composition ).

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Sebastian Lexer grew up in a family where he came into contact with the visual arts and music at an early age; initially with jazz music from AACM to Louis Armstrong , but also with the improvisation music from AMM . At the age of five he began to play the piano and at twelve the organ. In 1996 he began studying music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and studied piano with John Tilbury After studying the music of John Cage , Cornelius Cardew and Morton Feldman , he came to improvisation music and took part in the weekly improvisation workshops between 1999 and 2012 by Eddie Prévost . Together with other members of the workshop he founded Ensemble 9! , with which a first album was released on Eddie Prévost's label Matchless.

From the early 2000s, Lexer worked on a series of improvised music concerts at Goldsmiths College , then in Ian Stonehouse's Electronic Music Studio , with electronic equipment on Project Interlace . He has also played in projects with Ute Kanngiesser , Steve Noble and Seymour Wright since the 2000s . In his Piano + concept he was looking for a synthesis between the music of the acoustic piano and electronics. In doing so, he explores the tension between automatic and the intended playing forms of improvisational music. Lexer lives in Glasgow.

Discographic notes

  • Sebastian Lexer / Seymour Wright: Blowjob (Another Timbre, 2008)
  • in between (Matchless, 2009) solo
  • Sebastian Lexer & Christoph Schiller : Luftwurzeln (Matchless Recordings, 2012)
  • Lexer, Prévost, Wright: Impossibility in Its Purest Form (Matchless Recordings, 2012)
  • Sebastian Lexer, Evan Parker , Eddie Prévost: Tri-Borough Triptych (Matchless Recordings, 2013)
  • Sebastian Lexer + Steve Noble: Muddy Ditch (Fataka, 2016)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Sebastian Lexer & Seymour Wright, August 2008. August 1, 2008, accessed on October 1, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Sebastian Lexer (2010) Piano +: An Approach towards a Performance System Used within Free Improvisation Leonardo Music Journal, Vol 20 pp. 41-46.
  3. ↑ Brief portrait at Cafe Oto
  4. ↑ Discussion in Moment's Notice / Point of Departure
personal data
SURNAME Lexer, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German improvisation musician (piano, electronics, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1975