Serge Blenner

Serge Blenner

Serge Blenner (born April 23, 1955 in Mulhouse ) is a French composer living in Germany in the genre of instrumental and electronic music.

General

Serge Blenner was born in France and studied composition and harmony at the Mulhouse Conservatory before moving to Germany in 1975. Soon afterwards he began to experiment with electronic music and in 1978 presented his first work in Munich and Hamburg in a series of live concerts. The first recordings were released in 1980 on the Hamburg electronics label "Sky".

He has lived in Hamburg since 1979 and works in his “Esthématique” studio. In 1999 he founded his label MdeC Editions and has been publishing in his own publishing house ever since.

Blenner's style of music cannot be clearly assigned to any particular direction; it has elements of ambient , lounge , but also symphonic classic. It is often assigned to the music genre " New Age ". Some music critics called Blenner's music "philosophical music".

career

• 1982: The work on computer sounds with the prototype PPG Music-Computer led to his participation in the “Ars Electronica”, the famous festival for electronic music in Linz / Austria . Release of the album Fracture Interne on the label "Erdenklang".

• 1983–1985: Specialization in sampling technology. Invitation from Sat.1 TV for a live performance at the landing of the SpaceLab D1 mission.

• 1986: La Dimension Prochaine album is released . Licensed in the USA under the label "LifeStyle".

• 1987: After Les Architectes du Temps , Serge Blenner began to work with orchestral samples and demonstrated the range of his inventiveness. Great interest from Japan .

• 1988–1990: With Equateur and Cosmos he presented ambitious music of the 20th century, as the trade press wrote at the time. Number 1 in Italy's “New Sounds Charts”. Invitation from TVE , Spain .

• 1991: Work on a synthesis of computer sounds and French chansons . Setting own poems to music. Release of Babylone , which becomes number 1 in Finland's “Alternative Charts”.

• 1992–1994: Symphonic works (virtual orchestration): Liberation and Symbolique .

• 1995–1996: Two new albums, Vision et Poésie and Amour , work on a new concept.

• 1997–1999: With Ars Oratoria Blenner delivered the most idiosyncratic work of his career as a composer of “electro-acoustic music”.

• 2000–2001: Recording of the 15th album Virtualis .

• 2002–2004: With Miroir de Soi , Serge Blenner shows a very personal and haunting facet of his skills. The piece Le Miroir, for example, reflects B. the whole beauty of the sea, whose depth and stability moved him to oceanic sounds full of grace and joie de vivre.

• 2005–2008: Serge Blenner sends a complete virtual chamber orchestra onto the stage in his latest work, Musique de Chambre .

Discography

• La Vogue (1980)
• Frivole Magazine (1981)
• Fracture Internal (1982)
• Plaisir Ardent (1985)
• La Dimension Prochaine (1986)
• Les Architectes du Temps (1987)
• Equateur (1988)
• Musique Esthétique (Compilation, 1988)
• Cosmos (1990)
• Babylone (1991)
• Liberation (1992)
• Symbolique (1993)
• Musique Esthétique Vol. 2 (Compilation, 1993)
• Vision et Poésie (1995)
• La Vogue et Magazin Frivole (Compilation, 1995)
• Amour (1997)
• Ars Oratoria (1999)
• Virtualis (2001)
• Miroir de Soi (2004)
• Musique de Chambre (2008)

Web links

• Serge Blenner's website