Simon Rummel

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Simon Rummel (* 1978 in Trier ) is a German improvisation musician ( piano , violin , organ ), composer and sound artist . He is concerned with acoustic phenomena, which he transfers into artistic installations .

Live and act

Rummel took piano lessons at the age of eight, sang in the boys' choir and had organ lessons. He attended Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium and initially played in the jazz scene in Trier, then studied jazz piano and composition at the Cologne University of Music with John Taylor , Hans Lüdemann , Paulo Álvares , Johannes Fritsch , and later also free art with Georg Herold at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His diverse work includes (experimental) compositions for various ensembles, including a. for the Ensemble Fantasmofonika he founded (including with Ketonge ). In 2003 the ensemble received an award at the jazz-art festival (WDR). In 2005 a recorder concerto by Simon Rummel was premiered by the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and Eva-Maria Schieffer. In addition to various musical projects and performances, dance and theater works (such as a solo party with In-Jung Jun at Tanzhaus NRW), Rummel worked for eight years as a cantor and organist at a Protestant church as well as a choir director and band coach at the open Jazzhausschule Cologne. As a stage musician he played a. a. at the German-Greek Theater or the Blue Elephant Company , as assistant director at the Young Chamber Opera in Cologne and as a set designer for a “König Arthus” production at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf ; "This illustrates his interest in theater, which is reflected in his own experimental music theater pieces, in which sound, image and movement are composed." Simon Rummel u. a. Appeared in 2006 in Cologne's maxim and in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.

In 2008 Simon Rummel received a scholarship for experimental composition from the artist village Schöppingen . In 2007 he worked as a violinist with Radu Malfatti ( Rain Speak Soft Tree Listens ). In 2009 he was improviser in residence in Moers , where he played a. a. with Achim Tang , Angelika Niescier and Sanne van Hek . In 2010 he composed the film music performed live in the Museum Ludwig Cologne for the silent film Adieu Mascotte - The Girl from Montparnasse (1929, directed by Wilhelm Thiele , with Lilian Harvey ). In 2012 he performed at the Moers festival .

His sound performance harmony was awarded the QuattroPole - Art Prize Robert Schuman for composition in 2011 . Rummel's “Harmonielehre” is “a music machine that opens a door into the world of the infinite number of tone combinations beyond the division of the octave into twelve equal distances. It is based on organ pipes that can be changed in length and thus in pitch via a telescopic insert. ”In 2012 he performed a sound installation in Helge Schneider's program Helge hat Zeit . His compositions were interpreted by the Cologne James Choice Orchestra ; In 2012/13 he played his own works with musicians from this ensemble. a. Joris Rühl , Georg Wissel , Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Radek Stawarz belong.

In 2013 Rummel received the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship as part of the scholarship for young art in the field of music .

Compositions (selection)

  • Painting a Ship That Will Not Return (2014). Premiere December 10, 2014 Cologne ( Art Station Sankt Peter ). Irene Kurka (soprano), Lothar Berger and David Stützel (overtone singing), Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin), Annegret Mayer-Lindenberg (viola)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Moers, Grafschafter Museum, 2009: Answers to hidden questions (solo exhibition)
  • Wiesbaden Art Summer, 2012: Fluxus exhibition "Sound"
  • Kunstverein Duisburg, 2013: Vera Lossau / Simon Rummel - Object / Sculpture / Music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Quattropole Art Prize ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Simon Rummel: Improviser in Residence 2009 - Simon Rummel in conversation with Tinka Koch ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ succeeding the saxophonist Angelika Niescier , who was the first improviser in residence in 2008 .
  4. ^ La Boheme: The artist's staging in photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. In: Museum Ludwig ( Memento from October 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Information from Quattroporte ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Interview 2011 ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Klang-Impulse 3 - Simon Rummel: "Harmonielehre". Installation / performance in the context of the exhibition "Klang" and the Wiesbaden Art Summer ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Simon Rummel with a sound installation in the Helge Schneider Show ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / kugelbahn.blog.de
  9. ↑ Loft program (Cologne) February 2013.
  10. ↑ Homepage City of Cologne Scholarships for Young Art - Prizes 2013 , accessed on October 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Hype, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, sound artist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH trier